A Dino Quilt for Damien

I finished this quilt over a year ago; it was a baby quilt for a family friend. She wanted dinosaurs for her infant son and so I found a dino pattern and here it is. The pattern is by Made by Marney, here on Etsy.

It is foundation paper-pieced. Fabrics were mostly drawn from my Victoria Findlay Wolfe collection as well as some other things from my stash but Victoria's blues and especially the black and white stripe I used for the teeth seemed really fitting. I did not do the embroidery seen in the original pattern. The border fabric is an Eric Carle print that drew together the palette used for the dinos.

It was pretty fun to do though it did take a while. I quilted it with either Aurifil white or invisible/monofilament thread (I can't remember which), by machine. I used Quilters Dream wool batting for the little one to enjoy. Of course Eugenie had to photobomb. She's such a drama queen.

Finally Finished Something (Tiny)

So in my last post I told you about my herringbone; here is my miniature herringbone. 

The strips were 1.5 x 3.5 inches (I think); no pattern, just kind of winged it.

Here it is next to the larger, human-sized quilt, for scale. After I made the larger one, one of my friends teased me about my Baby Yoda obsession and said I should make a mini version for Eugenie. So that's what I did.

I used scrap of batting and Aurifil monofilament for the quilting which I did by machine. I learned that running a line of quilting along the non-jagged edge (the edge that gets trimmed off at the end and comes out straight) helped to stabilize that side of it for the binding.

I really love how it came out. The jagged binding is a bit of a hot mess if you look up close but that's OK. It would be fun to make a pillow version too. The colors are just right up my alley.