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My nephew turns 1 year old in 9 days! I made him a quilt to roll around on when he was born, but he's long outgrown that little thing. For his 1st birthday I'm making on that will last him a few years--until he's in a big boy bed, I hope.

I'm doing a rail fence pattern (for the first time) and using a variety of fabrics with black background and colorful prints.


That's an older picture--I've since replaced the 2 brighter, large pattern prints with some that fit better with the others.

I've been meaning to get this started for months, but just finally today cut the pieces out. Keeping in mind mailing time, I've got...4 days to make this quilt from start to finish. Good thing I took the next few days off work! whee ;;

Step one, cutting. DONE!
Step two, lay out the pieces on the floor and make adjustments to fabric placement as neccessary. DONE!

Step three, sew strips together.
Step four, cut sewn strips into smaller blocks.
Step five, sew blocks together to form quilt top
Step six, add borders.
Step seven, baste top, batting, and back together.
Step eight, quilt.
Step nine, sew binding.
Step ten, hand sew binding closed.

WHEW! I've got a lot to do in the next few days, what am I doing wasting my time on Gaia?! gonk

I got most (all?) of them at JoAnn's so I'm not suprised. whee


Step three, sew strips together. DONE!
Step four, cut sewn strips into smaller blocks. DONE!
Step five, sew blocks together to form quilt top. DONE!

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EDIT: Step six, add borders. DONE!

This one has the most true colors.

The birthday present became a Christmas present, but I still didn't get it done! redface At least the little guy is too young to know his present is late. whee


I've got about 40% of the quilting done now, but man, I didn't know it would take this long... sweatdrop

Only 9 months late, and I still have half of the binding to hand sew. sweatdrop I'm a crappy aunt. redface My sister is pregnant again too! I'm going to have to get started on a quilt for the new baby soon if I hope to finish before it's actually born! xp

Thank you. ^_^ Actually I finally finished it last week. It turned out great! I still need to take some pictures before I send it off though. :3