Green Quarter Log cabin - finished

I've been attending a Mom's group at church and this baby snuck up on me quickly.  I knew for most of the year that she was pregnant and yet suddenly the baby was here!

Anyway, I was Queen Bee in January for Stash Bee, so I decided to use those blocks for the quilt.  I started laying them out and realized quickly that it was way to big for a baby quilt.  So I've only used a bit over half of them, which means I can use the other half for another baby quilt!

For the bee block I asked for a log cabin block and then I cut them in quarters.  In hind-sight, this was probably not the best choice for a bee block.  Bee blocks come in with all sorts of tolerances, and then when I cut them the things seemed to get worse.  (I would like to note that I am not always the best at getting the block size perfect either, especially if I'm doing the whole quilt.  I try really hard and am getting better, but I'm often surprised at how some of my seams end up so small.)  I used Kona Hunter Green for the setting triangles.

I used a leaf motif for quilting.  I thought it fit the green theme well.  I didn't quilt on the white squares, because I didn't want the green thread showing up.

As always, the back is minky.  I used a satin ribbon for binding.

Quilting without Batting 2

 I was asked to quilt another quilt without batting!  It was a beautiful quilt, but since I had had some problems with the last one we stuck with the large loops for the quilting motif.

This time it worked so much better!  There were still some thread breaks, but not an insane number.  I started out with all new thread and tensioned the top layer instead of floating it like I normally do.  I'm not sure if one of those things made the difference or if there was something else that just worked better this time.