ModSew:: cotton couture baby quilt

I always love to make quick quilts and I think baby quilts usually fit in the quick category. I should make more of them because they are just fun… And, well,

fast!

I have always enjoyed working with Michael Miller since I started the Podcast. I remember calling them blindly and chatting with Kait, the person I was transferred to, about ideas of how I could work with the company. I was super chatty and Kait was super patient.

Fast forward several years and I now email back and forth with Kait often. We have worked on so many projects together and she has believed in me which gave me some much needed confidence in this thing called quilting. She really holds a special place in my heart. She is awesome.

Kait recently had a baby girl so a baby quilt was in order. And I knew it had to be a baby quilt made with cotton couture because most of the projects I work on for Michael Miller are cotton couture projects. I have had this rainbow napkin sitting by my sewing machine for some time – I couldn’t part with it because it always made me smile. And so I pulled my cotton couture colors inspired by the napkin and got to work.

I really love how it turned out. I love the bright colors, rainbow colors are just the best, the bright backing, and well black and white polka dot binding. I love it. And Kait sent me the cutest pictures of her daughter smiling on it. My day was made getting pictures of a smiling baby on a quilt I made. Like day made x forever!

Quilt info::

Rainbow couture

Pieced, quilted and bound by yours truly

June 2016

Fabrics for the front are cotton couture by Michael Miller. Backing is a print from ikea. Binding I am not sure but any black and white would work.

ModSew:: baby quilt “what does the fox say?”

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We have a friend that I know is the reason I met my husband. He was friends with my husband (whom I didn’t know at the time) and one of my friends. We all went to watch a basketball game at a local restaurant together and my husband stopped by. He had just bought a black mustang. He was just coming back from being with his parents as his mom had hip surgery. He was so not my type at all. He came in and said hi and that he was going to run home and unpack, shower, and change to head back up to watch the game. I was not phased that much… he wasn’t my type.

Well we all ended up hanging out that night and had a really fun time. Well there were some drinks that were consumed as well. But we had fun and he was so nice.

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So that week I get a call saying is this Stephanie, THE Stephanie that I met? Uh who is this? And it was him and he had asked his friend for my number and he happened to have 3 Stephanie’s in his phone. So I was the third and he was wondering if he would ever get the right one on the phone. So we talked to a while and decided to go on a date.

And we did and haven’t looked back at all. We were us. And we ended up getting married and having two daughters.

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That friend we both shared is the reason I know we are together. He was our common link and God put us together.

That friend now lives in another state and is having a baby girl this month. I knew that that baby girl needed something handmade from me. I prayed over this quilt. I thanked God for His many blessings while making this quilt.

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Now to get it in the mail to her.