Lovely Geneva though the colours are strange for a baby. I thought the same when I was asked to make a grey one. Love the addition of the Jonah bit it make it special particularly with all the tears you've put in it. Naughty Sybil!

Geneva - Wonderful quilt!
Barb

Hello everyone!

I hope you are enjoying September. The time seems to fly!

I made another baby quilt. This is for a baby due at the end of October. He will be named Judah. His mom asked for royal colors. I was stumped for a bit, but then just went ahead and started sewing. I downloaded a small embroidery about the lion of Judah. This simple 30 minute embroidery took almost 2 hours because Sybil likes to break threads. She isn't very nice when it comes to doing embroidery. In any case, I finished!



Once again, it's not too "baby" but I think the mom will like it.

Take care, geneva

Sewdreamy wrote: That's why I try to check and read all the forum each day so I don't miss anything but I got too busy for a bit!

Hi Karen! I never can ever keep up with this huge active topic, so I just pop in and read it once in a while for the most part, but usually I miss a lot of the fun.

My comments are probably not going to make sense now because I am SO far behind but
Congratulations to Dawn and Renata and Rosemary!
Thanks for all the mini quilt shows that ladies have posted from shows they've attended.
Lotti your pictures were breathtaking as usual.
And hello to everyone else that I read about and fell out of my memory by the time I caught up on hundreds of posts!

Geneva your dyed fabrics are really beautiful!

Geneva, I love what you whipped out with your hand-dyed fabrics! Super cute! Love it all. I also go to my Go! when I need something fast.

Thank you Renata, Rosemary and Wendy. All ideas are interesting and useful. Terry thanks for the comment on the border. I worked so hard to make that border much more difficult than it needed to be! In the end I did what I should always do when faced with a dilemma. Walk away, have a glass of wine and a good nights sleep! It's always better the next day.

geneva

Geneva, Your Jolly Ranchers quilt is wonderful! I especially liked the border!

Right my tip is after trimming zig zag your edges. Sew your facing to the front as you would a binding and sew again 1/8" from the edge. Turn facing to back and press with steam then slip stitch in place. Hope this helps .

There are tricks you can do with corners but I just trim them after adding first facing side and it works. I think one is to sew the second side down the first edge before turning, I've tried that and it gave a neat corner. I'll share if I can find the tutorial. I tend to take tips from several.

I do love hand dyes and yours look so good in that design. I face quilts quite often I'll give you my tips when I've got the girls up

It's yummy!

Very pretty Geneva--and thank you.

Alternatively you could do a 'knife edge' finish. I particularly like it for miniatures, as it is easier for small scale work.

Congratulations, Renata and Dawn for getting a mention in today's newsletter.