The concept seemed foreign to me; not sure why… But to me a quilt meant piecing together rows of blocks – horizontally and vertically. But it changes the whole look when you piece together the blocks “on point”!
I have learned a lot following Amy Smart from her Diary of a Quilter blog. A while ago, I had saved one of her free crib sized patterns. She also offers this pattern as a PDF if you want to make it in other sizes. This pattern shows you how to piece a simple quilt “on point”.
A friend of mine is about to become a first-time Grandmother, her daughter, a first-time Mom. This gave me the chance to try out Amy’s crib quilt pattern!
I had 2 charm packs of of Eleanor Burns’ “Forever Love” fabric from Benartex just waiting for this quilt! While determining the position of my blocks, I quickly realized an important step is taking a photo of my final layout, so I could remember the order as I was sewing!
This quilt was easy to piece. As you can see in the above picture, you will piece the blocks horizontally, but when put together, they are now “on point”. Next, on to quilting. It is usually when I baste my quilt that I begin to think about how I will quilt it.
I usually do my own quilting, on my domestic machine. I wanted to do something simple, and yet different (at least for me). I chose Fairfield Poly-fil Extra-Loft batting. I wanted something light weight for this precious new baby. And I wanted my simple quilting to really show. Using FMQ (free motion quilting), I simply quilted from corner to corner, curving about 1 inch. I really like the end result!
My new crib quilt washed beautifully. If you would like to follow my tutorials on piecing a quilt, quilting a quilt, binding a quilt, and labeling a quilt – check out these tutorials!
I like the quilt pattern! Nice job on the machine quilting!!!!! The quilt is lovely!
Thank you!