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Colorful chevron quilt with rainbow stripes

by kustomkwilts

Crayon Box! New free quilt pattern for Janome

I'm crazy about quilting, but I'm also really crazy about modern quilting. The colors, the patterns, the newness of it all just makes me love everything about it! Luckily, I got to create something with the curated Michael Miller Cotton Couture bundle available at local Janome dealers. It's bright, cheerful, and has the awesomely saturated colors you can't get anywhere but from Michael Miller Fabrics (and no, they aren't paying me to say that). Cotton couture is my favorite solid to work with right now, because it sews like BUTTER. I've even used it in some garments and loved the result. So if you're dying to see it, here's "Crayon Box": Crayon Box by Joanna Marsh You can find the full tutorial on the Janome website HERE and download the pattern for free! I had a blast creating this and playing with the colors! Use the hashtag #thecrayonboxquilt to share your creation. There's also a fun tutorial on how to do scrappy bindings in the free quilt pattern, just like in the picture below (and I just couldn't resist this Loominous Anna Maria Horner print for my backing): Scrappy binding tutorial And for quilting ideas, I did a super fun swirly motif. Swirly quilting So run and grab your free pattern and get sewing today :)

Navy and neon green geometric star quilt

by kustomkwilts

Dreamer's Star Quilt Pattern Release

It's been a little while since my last blog post, but I have been working on some really exciting things in my neck of the woods (and I haven't even been snowed in by the monster snow storm!)I am SO excited to be releasing my first independent quilt pattern! I absolutely ADORE geometric quilt patterns that pack a lot of punch and created this pattern that is available on Craftsy and in my Etsy shop. The pattern is an instant PDF download, so you can enjoy it immediately :) The pattern comes with instructions for 3 different sizes-a mini quilt, a 64" x 64", and a 80" x 80" quilt. One of my favorite things about this pattern is that if you aren't great at combining lots of patterns or colors, all this pattern needs is really 2 contrasting or 2 coordinating fabrics to work well. But if you're a little more adventurous, go for a scrappy look and be blown away! Here are a few samples of the Dreamer's Star Quilt Pattern: Dreamer's Star Quilt 64" x 64" made with Michael Miller Cotton Couture in Midnight and Lime Dreamer's Star Mini Quilt made in scrappy blacks and purples Dreamer's Star Mini Quilt made with Michael Miller Cotton Couture and Painter's Canvas I hope you'll check out this pattern that really packs a punch and when you make it, please use the hashtag #dreamersstarquilt and tag me on Instagram @kustomkwilts I SO look forward to what you'll make with this pattern :))Happy Quilting!

by kustomkwilts

Finding time to give back #quiltsforpulse

In the midst of tragedy, I am relieved that I belong to a group of people that goes out of their way to show love for others. The group I'm talking about is the Modern Quilt Guild. And even more specifically, the San Antonio chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild. The Orlando MQG organized collections to accept in progress quilts and completed quilts to show support and love for some of the people affected by the Pulse night club shooting. I hate that I'm even writing a post about this, because it's so disturbing the amount of violence we hear about on a daily basis on the news...but I want to focus on giving back and showing support for our fellow human beings. The SAMQG members are SO giving and generous with their fabric and time, that we've had a plethora of blocks constructed (most using the Heart pattern tutorial by Cluck Cluck Sew). A few charity sew-ins, and we've finished (I think) 5 quilts! I had the great opportunity to quilt a few of these, and wanted to discuss charity work in this industry. I've done a little bit of charity sewing in the past, but not really donated much of my time or resources prior to getting my longarm. And once I started donating my quilting, I kind of just rushed through the process, doing a stipple or some quick meandering design to get that top off my frame as quickly as I could. But one night, I started thinking about the recipients of these rushed through pieces I had worked on. Was I proud of the work I was doing on them? No. Absolutely not. I was just FINISHING THEM. There was nothing special or generous about what I was doing to add to the quilt. And maybe those recipients don't even look at the quilting. But it really got to me that I was doing about 2% of my best work on something that was supposed to be making someone happier. I decided to start doing my best work on every quilt top. Whether it was a paying customer or not. If I'm going to commit to working on something, why would I give anything less than my best? And besides, if you want to look at it from a really selfish angle, it's great practice and helps develop your skills even further. I really love the graffiti quilting style, and chose to do that on this quilt. These blocks were pieced together by so many different people, with such love and compassion in their hearts. It really does give me a little bit of hope for humanity.Anyway, my two cents for the day is to think about where your heart is when you decide to do charity work. If it's in your heart, put your best foot forward and really give all you have. Otherwise, what are you wasting your time for?

Colorful patchwork quilt with diagonal striped squares

by kustomkwilts

Free Jelly Roll Quilt Tutorial!

If you've been looking for a way to use up those super cute jelly rolls you've acquired...I have a great jelly roll tutorial for you! It's free, and you can find it at the American Quilter's Society Blog, sponsored by Janome. Free Jelly Roll Quilt tutorial by Joanna Marsh I whipped up this quick tutorial using L's Modern Basics (in the warm colors) Sushi Roll. I absolutely love this fabric collection and plan on making one of these in the cool colorway too! Easy piecing with Janome's 1/4" piecing foot If your quarter inch seams aren't perfect, you can take your piecing skills to the next level with a 1/4" piecing foot that will give you perfect seams every time. This foot is everything when it comes to piecing!!! Up close and personal of the quilting And then finish your top off with some fun free motion quilting! Have fun with this free tutorial, and use up that fabric you've been hoarding for so long :)

Colorful patchwork pillows and quilts on backseat

by kustomkwilts

Free Quilt Pattern Alert! Super easy I Spy Quilt pattern to ease your pain on long road trips with the kids

How many times have you been in the car, loaded up the kids to go to grandma's house, and heard that horrible, awful question...(queue the Jaws music)..."Are we there yet?" or better yet..."I'm Boooooooored." I Spy Quilt loaded up and ready to go! I know we're all super busy in the summer, and it makes finding time to sew pretty difficult. But now you have a great reason to bust out the sewing machine--you're going to cure the kids of their road trip boredom by making them an I Spy Quilt! All you really need are some random novelty prints or scraps--even seasonal fabrics are great for this. The great thing about this quilt is that NONE of the fabrics need to be cohesive for this to work. You have a print with elephants? Elves? Pirates? Cactus? Ballerinas? They're all perfect! The more random the assortment of your fabrics, the longer the kids will be staring at this quilt, absolutely stumped. Your layout can be totally random, too! I tried to lay my squares out from dark to light,but you can try grouping them by color, theme, etc. I had the privilege of teaming up with Janome to write this tutorial for American Quilter's Society. So follow this pretty little LINK and head over to get the skinny on how to put this awesome little lifesaver together! I quilted mine with some sweet little swirls that were fast and easy! Okay, so in all honesty, making this quilt won't be the end of you ever hearing those two comments from the back seat again, but what the heck! It's worth a shot isn't it? ;)

Colorful geometric star and flower patchwork quilt

by kustomkwilts

Gems in the Night Sky Quilt (Dear Jane-ISH Quilt)

I played with the quilt design for the Gems in the Night Sky Quilt in EQ7 for probably a week straight before I had my final layout the way I wanted it. I changed the background fabric, moved blocks around, completely deleted blocks, changed color arrangement, the list goes on and on. It's funny how after you're done with something, all the time you spent on it just kind of vanishes, and you don't think about the labor of love you put into it. This quilt. All the hearts. I had the awesome chance to design and make this quilt for Janome's brand new machine launch--the 9400. I'm not going to lie, this quilt took FOREVER. But packing it in a shipping box and saying goodbye forever was nearly as difficult as giving away your first born. And then I saw the picture of it on the Janome website once the machine was released, and it was like seeing photos of a long lost friend. And I might have squealed out loud at the top of my lungs :)So there were 81 blocks- with 9 different block constructions. At first glance it kind of looks like someone took a Dear Jane quilt and dumped a bucket of modern over it (which is fine with me!), but if you look a little closer, you will see the blocks are just made with alternating colors and arranged in a way that it deceives you into thinking there are a lot of different blocks in this quilt. This was pieced with the Michael Miller Cotton Couture bundle that's available at Janome dealers, and the background fabric is Anna Maria Horner's True colors- filigree in dusk. I think the combination is just dreamy. Sometimes I love the backs of quilts more than the front. I like to press my seams open to eliminate a lot of bulk when I quilt. And then it was quilted with Stitch in the ditch around the bright colors and heavily quilted on all of the AMH fabric. I had to keep this a secret for so long, that I nearly forgot about it once the machine was finally released. So I'm finally able to share and show my little labor of love.

A colorful wall hanging with an abstract design.

by kustomkwilts

Graffiti Quilting my Karlee Porter Panel

I know I already posted about attending the Karlee Porter workshop that SAMQG hosted a few months ago--but I really need to post about this as well! Karlee has some really awesome panels that she designed, and if you haven't felt them in person, they are buttery soft. This one is called "Explosion" (picture is from Karlee Porter's website), and if you want one, click HERE to order your own! And FYI, this one is ginormous! "Explosion" printed tapestry designed by Karlee Porter (picture from Karlee's website) I love sewing and piecing and constructing quilt tops as much as the next person, but seriously...it is so awesome to load a quilt top and not worry about the hours, days, weeks it took to piece it. Especially when you get to skip that part entirely. There's nothing better that just mindlessly losing yourself in a quilt while quilting. This is my ultimate stress reliever. The back of the quilt (Tula Pink wide back) I haven't hung this one yet, as I haven't bound the edges, but I will update this blog post once it's finally finished.

Sewing projects: pillows and fabric storage basket

by kustomkwilts

Lemon Slice Picnic Blanket

This may seem a little redundant, seeing as how I already participated in Erin's blog hop for SewHome, BUT I had to talk about the really unique Picnic Blanket (Quilt) that I also had the opportunity to work on for the book. SewHome by Erin Schlosser, photo by C&T Publishing I can't stop thinking about how unique and practical the projects are in Erin Schlosser's new book. For real, y'all. I've bought fabric and supplies to make my top 6 favorite projects in the book (who knows when I'll have time to do it!!!). Lemon Slice Picnic Blanket, photo by C&T Publishing So, this is the Lemon Slice Picnic Blanket, and it is too cool for school! The ingenious part is that the backing is with laminated cotton--so you don't have to worry about getting grass stains on the back of it. Erin asked me to quilt this for the book, and it was so much fun to do. I just had to share this and, if I'm being honest, don't be surprised if there are more posts from Erin's book in the future.

Love Quilting magazine cover with colorful quilt

by kustomkwilts

Love Patchwork & Quilting Nautical But Nice Quilt

So...There was this one time that I actually got to have a quilt in a magazine! I collaborated with Stephanie Kendron of Modern Sewciety on this gorgeous ombre nautical themed quilt for Love Patchwork & Quilting. I'm one of those people who already WAY over uses exclamation points. But just prepare yourself for this post, because my excitement was ridiculous!Seriously, pick up your copy of LP&Q-issue 36 (you can find it at Barnes and Noble), and you'll see my ugly mug in there :) So, normally, this would be a post discussing the design elements and collaboration process, but this was my first ever time to be in a magazine--so far ;) so I'm allowed to be a little excited, right?

Turquoise and yellow fabric mandala with pink accents

by kustomkwilts

My Millefiori

You can probably tell that I like to dabble in all things quilty. Last summer, I decided that I wanted to conquer English Paper Piecing. What I didn't realize at the time was that EPP is extremely addictive because you can take it anywhere...it's easy to do on the couch while watching tv, great for road trips (when you aren't driving), and can also be done at social gatherings. When people hear "EPP" or English paper piecing, many probably envision little hexagons, endearingly called "hexies" pieced together with traditional or reproduction fabrics that may end up looking a little dated. I'm not crazy about that look, but I LOVE Willyne Hammerstein's book Millefiori Quilts. (And now there's a second book to follow the first.) In the first book, one quilt pattern in particular caught my eye--the "La Passacaglia". It combines pentagons, triangles, diamonds, and other shapes to create a myriad of rosettes that are breathtaking. I will say there is a slight drawback if you are using the practice of fussy-cutting (positioning your templates on specific motifs on the fabric to create another design), and that is using fabric yardage inefficiently. But you'll be making scraps for other projects as you go, so really, it's a win-win! Here are a couple of pictures of some of my completed rosettes.These all show really great examples of using fussy-cutting with your epp. I really can't wait to finally finish my quilt top. I have all the pieces sewn together for the standard design by Hammerstein, but didn't like the fact that I would be chopping several rosettes in half to square up the top. So I opted to fill in the rest of the quilt to be even with the rosettes that stick out...the quilt top is really pretty small when you consider how much time and cutting goes into it. I laid out my quilt top on a piece of foam board and pinned it so it wouldn't shift, then used the paper pieces to fill in around the edges. I probably should really look into documenting the layout better than I did, but for now I just have some pictures on my phone. I'll share those with you once I have completed and know the layout works, so if you want to do the same thing you can! I started this project in December 2014 and finished Hammerstein's layout in September 2015. I'm not sure when I'll finish the fill-in part, but hopefully it's soon, because I am dying to quilt this thing! If you're looking for other pictures of some really awesome La Passacaglia quilts, you should check out the following Instagram users: @kamiemurdock, @lilabellelane, @izy_sewbusy to name just a few. You can also search the hashtag #lapassacaglia for some really inspiring pictures!

Four sewing thread spools on pink cupcake fabric

by kustomkwilts

Quilting a "Letters from home" quilt

A couple of months ago, I had the awesome opportunity to quilt one of my customer's "Letters from Home" quilt (pattern by Heather Givens/Crimson Tate). Now, I have to preface this post by saying that I'm barely wetting my toes in the waters of custom quilting. But I am super-duper proud of the quilting on this quilt. I'm going to take you through the process. I like Glide's thread for a little pop of sheen on a quilt. Plus, it quilts like a DREAM. I selected a few different thread colors for the quilting on this quilt. Mainly, I changed thread colors to help them blend with the fabrics they were quilting on for a more subtle pop. I used Quilter's Dream batting for this quilt, as I do with most of my client quilts. Glide Threads selected Some people might have you believe that once the quilt was loaded and the threads picked out that the quilting just magically happened with a wave of their wand. Here's my dirty little secret: This quilt sat on my frame for a week. An entire WEEK. I had sketched out at least a dozen ideas for quilting, and each morning I would go out to my studio, ready to attack. But then I would end up standing there, staring at the quilt top. I changed my mind so many times, and then decided on the most difficult (or most time consuming) design I had drawn up. Beginning to mark and quilt the borders So I broke out my water soluble marking pen and trusty ruler and started marking some guidelines for the quilting. I did some straight line quilting on the borders after marking them, and then marked the rest of the quilt as I went. Each pass on the longarm took me about an hour to mark with the ruler and pen. More markings, filled in with some quilting The thing about the design being quilted, is that it isn't complicated. It's just a bunch of straight lines and loops, but the way they are put together really leaves you with a huge impact. I have a black light on my longarm and seriously think it is SO cool. This shows the texture a little better. I really wanted to focus on the texture on this quilt, and so I chose to stitch in the ditch around the envelopes and the focal fabrics so they would pop out more. My client selected Japanese import fabrics from Bunny Designs (out of Austin, TX), with a backing out of an adorable cupcake pattern (see the first photo in the post). The attention to detail and her impeccable piecing made this quilt one of my all time favorites to quilt. The quilt pattern by Crimson Tate is SO cute, and an ingenious way to showcase focal fabrics. So, aside from me just talking about how much I loved this quilt, my other point is that sometimes it isn't second nature to just come up with quilting designs out of thin air. And it's okay if the quilt has to sit on your frame for a week while you change your mind a hundred times about the quilting design (as long as your client has allowed you to do so!). And while it is my favorite thing ever for a client to say--I want custom quilting, and the design is up to you--it can also be the most challenging (and rewarding) part of my job. I think this is a great way to grow your skill set and think about how many different ways there are to quilt a quilt. (Quilt construction and fabric selection by Debra Barnes)

by kustomkwilts

Red Heart Quilt - client quilt

I recently had the privilege of quilting this gorgeous quilt for one of my clients. The piecing is just gorgeous and the quilt was donated to a charity event/fundraiser. I quilted the quilt with free motion hearts all over the top. Quilt Pieced by Debra B. This was such a joy to quilt--check out the close up of the free motion hearts :)

Colorful fanned assortment of patterned fabric swatches

by kustomkwilts

Scrappy Trip Quilt Project with the San Antonio MQG

Have you ever felt sort of isolated in this "hobby" (or lifestyle to be more accurate) that we call quilting? I had recently discovered modern quilting and realized there was this whole other world of people that were just like me. I'm sure we've all had a point in our lives where we thought Joann's and Hobby Lobby were the only places you could buy fabric...I went through this phase for probably the first year and a half that I was discovering sewing (disastrous, I know!). Once my eyes were opened (along with my pocket book), I needed to connect with other people that felt there was something more than just traditional quilting and subdued fabric. I found the San Antonio Modern Quilt Guild really by accident when I was trying to register for QuiltCon 2015. I immediately joined and have missed just a handful of meetings due to my "real job", but the experience has been nothing short of life changing. I have made friends and contacts that have enriched my life so much.We followed the tutorial posted on Quiltville's blog here: Quiltville's blog You should check it out if you're interested in making your own Scrappy Trip quilt--the instructions are very well written and easy to follow.Some of the guild members have started the journey of the "scrappy trip along". It's really a cool technique to learn, and since we all have a bit of a competitive nature, there are prizes involved and a schedule for block completion. Somewhere along the way...I got caught up and ended up with 100 completed blocks. This was my starting point when I began cutting 2.5" wide strips to arrange into blocks. I obviously like very bright, saturated colors :)My only plan for arrangement was to alternate bright, lighter colors with dark, duller colors. I wanted a very busy, random quilt when I was done with it.I think the scrappy trip quilt is an awesome project when you are feeling less than inspired and maybe lost your sew-jo, but need to find it. Especially if you are doing a random arrangement, where you allow the fabrics to just do their own thing and speak for themselves. It can be a relaxing project to just piece without thinking and enjoy the results and the process involved. (It is kind of a lengthy process!)These are some of my finished blocks (before sewn into the quilt, they measure 12.5" x 12.5"), and I just love the brightness of them. And this is the first layout I set prior to piecing my quilt top. So many times, we face difficult decisions with all the "favorite" fabrics we buy and not having fabrics to coordinate with them. In the scrappy trip, anything goes, and you don't have to concern yourself with that. I ended up with 100 completed blocks...I kind of got wrapped up in the cutting strips, sewing together, cutting, seam ripping, sewing process and forgot that my intention was not to make a king sized quilt...My final layout was a 9 x 10 layout with the finished top measuring 120" wide x 108" long. This was perfect for our bed since we have a little bit of a problem with cover thievery, and allowed for enough of a drop on both sides that neither my husband nor I end up without covers in the middle of the night. I had 10 blocks leftover and pieced them all together in a 2 x 5 arrangement. Then I cut them in half in the center of the middle block so they each measured 25" x 31". I put batting behind each one and quilted these so we would have semi-matching pillow shams. I will say that I wanted to go nuts quilting this. But with those super busy fabrics, I knew the quilting wouldn't really be showcased, so any intricacy would be lost on anyone but me. I went ahead and did some cool swirls that took me much longer than I should have spent, but I really had fun with it. If you're a beginner quilter, this would be a great project to really push your quilting skills, because any mistakes you make won't show like a sore thumb. So, if you're in the market for a pretty low stress project that you don't have to think about, grab some scraps and get started on your own scrappy trip! Enjoy the process and you'll love the end product. I'm excited to show this at our November guild meeting when everyone will showcase their own scrappy trips and share their results. Until next time!Joanna

Turquoise patterned fabric and sewing supplies

by kustomkwilts

Sewing for BABY part 2 with Anna Maria Horner fabrics

So there are really only 2 more items I wanted to talk about on this topic, then I promise, I will move on from the baby talk! Find the fabric for this projects HERE and the pattern for the Belle Baby Bag HEREDiaper bags. Are. Outrageously. Expensive. If you can sew, there is no excuse for buying a diaper bag (in my opinion). I spent weeks looking for the perfect diaper bag pattern, and low and behold...Alicia from Swoon Patterns is miraculously pregnant at the same time that I am!!! Which means she released a diaper bag pattern in the nick of time for me!!! I mean, not really for me. More for her, I'm sure. But I'll take it! My pile of Belle Baby Bag pieces cut and ready to go! So I adore the "Passage" in Pomegranate from AMH's Mod Corsage collection. Such vibrant colors. Seriously, pictures really don't do the print justice. I didn't want to pair the fabrics with a solid, so I went with some Michael Miller's Painter's Canvas in a blue-grey color. I feel like it really gave a little added texture and made the bag really POP. This is the shoulder strap for the bag--using Passage in pomegranate. You can't find a store bought diaper bag in fabrics this gorgeous. Won't happen. And then this is the nearly finished bag (I was waiting for the strap hardware to come in). The pattern is very well written (thank you Alicia!), and I couldn't be more happy with the fabric (thank you Anna Maria!!!). I'm not going to lie...I started carrying it as my purse as soon as I got the rest of the hardware in. It's going to be a great diaper bag--there are pockets everywhere, and there are even stroller clips (not shown in picture) that attach to the handle of the stroller. So there's the diaper bag. The last thing I'm going to gush about for the time being is the wall hanging I made for Gemma's room. If you haven't heard of Vanessa at Fabric Confetti, run--don't walk--to her website. Her embroidery-applique designs are awesome! I purchased the Elemenopea embroidery design package (it also comes with SVG files to load into your cutter). I was originally going to hand embroider "Gemma" onto a big wall hanging, but...ain't nobody got time for that! Find the embroidery files to purchase HERE on the Fabric Confetti website. Elemenopea Embroidery package-picture from the Fabric Confetti website So this comes in two different sizes (I swear--I didn't get paid anything to promote either of these products. I just love them. I purchased them both myself and didn't ask for any kind of payment from any designer mentioned in this post.) I bought the larger size. And yes, it is a bit pricey. But...so worth it. I embroidered/appliqued each letter in "Gemma" separately and cut them out so I could set them at wonky angles on the wall hanging. Note the reappearance of "Passage" in pomegranate! The solid fabric on the bottom portion of the letters and also seen in the border of the wall hanging is a shot cotton by Studio E. The prints in the top portion of the letters are all various prints from Mod Corsage. So this is the nearly finished project--loaded onto the longarm and being quilted. So these are just a few of the things I've made for the nursery, and I'm happy with the few items I did make...even though my original plan was to basically stress myself out to the point of no return by making crib sheets, changing pad covers, lots of baby clothes, etc. Nope. Didn't happen. :)

Stack of colorful patterned cloth diapers

by kustomkwilts

Sewing for BABY with Anna Maria Horner fabrics

As I said in my post a few weeks ago...we have a little girl on the way (I'm typing this in October, so I'm half way hoping she's already been born by the time this goes live!). My husband and I come from a long line of handmade people...my father in law made Gemma's crib and dresser, my mother in law hand painted baby blocks for her and even wove some handles on a wooden basket to keep the blocks in. So I wanted some other handmade items in the nursery too!When I first found out I was pregnant, I had all these grand illusions of what I wanted the nursery to look like. I was dreaming of a little girl. We found out that was the case, and I knew immediately I didn't want a sickening pepto pink bedroom for her. Pinterest was my BFF and I was pinning tons of color schemes and baby patterns. I decided to make a short list of things I knew I would have time to make prior to her arrival and planned them out. I started out with Alison Glass fabrics because I LOVE the saturated colors. But I couldn't pick a color scheme. So I moved on to AMH and fell in love with the Mod Corsage line and Fibs and Fables. I love how complex the colors are in Anna Maria's lines. The color schemes are very sophisticated, but they all manage to work with her other lines. So I'm just going to do a quick run through of the items I've made so far for sweet baby girl's room. Handmade burp cloths from cloth diapers and AMH Mod Corsage So this style isn't typical of the burp cloths I used to make and sell in my Etsy shop, but I think these will be much more absorbent. We shall see!!! At the very least, they'll be beautiful until they are snotted on and spit up on :) Get the tutorial HERE (and better yet, this tutorial is labeled for beginner sewing! Hour Baskets in Mod Corsage for baby organization And have you seen how expensive simple little organizing baskets are??? Enter the hour baskets by kelbysews. These literally took me 30 minutes from start to finish, and they hold the burp cloths like a champ. I think I made 6 of these, and I love them all! Get the pattern HERE Tummy time mat made with Mod Corsage and Fibs and Fables AND batting scraps And this ethereal print from Mod corsage with the bouquets...to die for. I wasn't sure what I was going to use this fabric for, but I knew I wanted it showcased. And I loved this dressmaker print from the AMH Fibs and Fables line. So I made a simple tummy time mat. Another great thing about making this was that I used up a TON of batting scraps that I didn't have any plan for. I quilted this mat pretty heavily, so I stacked the batting scraps 3 layers deep. This is the cushiest thing you could ever lay a baby on. And I love that I put those smaller batting scraps to good use. I squared it up after quilting, rounded the corners to give it a little more style, and bound it. It's small enough that I can roll it up and take to grandma's house or wherever but big enough that I don't have to worry about other people's dirty floors :) There's no pattern for this to link to, but it's basically just a whole cloth quilt with tons of batting scraps layered in between the two pieces of fabric--enough to make 3 layers thick with batting. Quilt as desired. Trim/square up into whatever shape you desire. I rounded the corners because I didn't want them square, and then I slapped some binding on that sucker. I did machine bind--in the event that this got pooped on or spit up on a ton and needed to be laundered a lot--so if you love hand binding as much as I do, you may want to rethink that!I'm going to make this a two part post to talk a little more in depth about the other items (so I can credit other people's designs). Continued to next week--when I will hopefully have this baby out of my body if I don't already!!!

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