Another baby quilt

Another friend had a baby recently. They weren't telling the gender ahead of time, so I wasn't able to get the quilt ready either. But I've finished it pretty quickly and think it turned out very cute. I also went somewhere else to take pictures. I should really do that more often; it is easy to always take the same pictures around my own house.

I first saw the pattern here.  I'm not sure from where the original pattern came.

I double dipped with some fabrics that I had purchased for another quilt but still had a lot left.  It was a pleasant surprise!

As normal for my baby quilts, the back is minky and the border is sateen.  Hmm, the quilting didn't show up as well as normal in the picture below.  Oh well...I still like showing the back.  This pictures shows that it was green.

This one's better.  Orange peels (full or half) in the colors parts and a double loop in the white parts.  I did an orange peel flower in each quadrent of the larger squars and quilted a small square inside when going between the flowers.  I like how the inner square tied it together.

And one last shot...I was thinking about taking more but it was rather windy.

This was my May ALYOF goal.  Hmm.  It appears as though I forgot to actually link up.  Oh well, I still finished!  However, I will still join up with Whoop-whoop Friday, Link-A-Finish Friday, Finish it up Friday, Sew Cute Tuesday, and Fabric Tuesday.

A Christmas Quilt

I finished quilting the Christmas quilt for my Grandma.  (Although the quilt is from my mother-in-law.  It's fun to work on family quilts.)

I did spirals on the outside, swirl scrolls in the inside borders (per Angela Walters), and copied the quilting for the inside squares...I thought of them as leaves. I thought the leaves would be a ton harder than what they ended up being.  There are so many lines that needed to look straight...but they do!  I did mark the center of each block and I think that helped a lot.

It's rather snowy right now, but I enjoyed the lighting that the snow gave.  When the snow isn't directly in the picture everything is illuminated nicely, but when it is in the picture everything else looks dark.

The quilt pattern is Rosemary and Thyme by It's Sew Emma.