Renie on the Farm: Bright Future!

Project Quilting Season Eight - The Brighter The Better!

This week's challenge was fun. I went through all my stash and picked out every piece of fabric that was colorful. It was great to be able to use my stash for once. I haven't made many quilts that have extremely bright colors. I do love the bright colors, but typically go for more traditional looking quilts often using subdued colors. So this was a chance to branch out and use all those beautiful ,colorful fabrics I had been collecting,

Stack of fabrics I pulled from my stash!

I decided that I'd do a baby quilt as my daughter is expecting in July. This will be my first grandchild and I am so excited. 😍😍 I didn't really need an excuse to get going making baby things!

I cut 4.5 inch squares of about 60 pieces of fabric and white squares to make half square triangles.

Chain Piecing the half square triangles

After lots and lots of ironing, I laid out my triangle to form a pattern.

After sewing the squares together, I decided it needed something else to finish it and brighten it up even further. I had never made prairie points and thought these would be a perfect addition. I had some half square triangles leftover I used and some solid squares. I alternated the white portion of the triangles to the back for added interest.After reviewing several YouTube videos (YouTube is the best!!) I found a video put by Fons and Porter. It demonstrated a great method on how to attach the prairie points in a binding. Thanks Fons and Porter!

I put the quilt together and quilted it adding an embroidered label to back, I have been practicing my quilting of the layers and this quilt gave an opportunity to try some different techniques.