Sewing Projects - Chevron Baby Quilt

Since the recipient of this particular project has received this one by now I guess I can finally share!

For my family and close friends I try and make a baby quilt for their gift.  I normally make them completely on the machine, but for this one I thought I would try to do a good bit of hand sewing.  I did machine piece the top on my Singer 99 but the quilting and binding was done by hand.

Please don't mind my gross pressing towel. I promise it's clean just old!

Pressing towel in action.

I used a great tutorial from HERE, and it is a wonderful tutorial with sizes and everything!  Love.  I normally come up with my own patterns, but for this one I decided to just use the internet and let it help me out.

All three layers basted together and getting my hand stitching on.

Who minds handwork when you have this view!

My goal was to have this put together and basted so I could work on it while we were on vacation in September.  (And yes I basted this together the morning before we left.)  I knew I would have some down time while Allie was napping during the day and I'm just not one to sit around and do nothing.  I had a great time sitting on the balcony, frozen drink and scissors by my side.  I don't quite know if my grandmothers would have approved but it seemed like the perfect thing to do on vacation to me.  

Gotta love those polka dots.

Can you see my stitches?

I chose to do a self binding on this quilt, which is where you cut the backing bigger than the top and batting and just fold it over and stitch.  I almost did this on the machine and then thought, I have done so much hand work on this one it would be a shame to wuss out and machine stitch it.  So I buckled down and spent the better part of a Saturday blind hem stitching the binding down. I was super proud of this binding as I think it's the nicest one I've done yet.  

So after many, many hours this is what I shipped off to a very lovely little boy.....

It was so pretty I just wanted to keep it for myself!  I definitely need to do a big one of these in the future for our bed.  We need another quilt to layer on for the winter months and I love this pattern.  It makes a great impact and the way it's pieced together makes it go pretty quickly and it's not too fiddly.  I'm not a real quilter, I'm much better at clothes, but this is one I'm definitely proud of.  

That mitered corner is a sexy, sexy beast.  Rawah!

Look at that beautiful corner and hand stitching.  Momma like!

Hope you're having a great Tuesday lovelies!