Here’s a quilt I made for baby Stella, due to come into this world the first week of December. I used the Macaroon Bali Pop for the main part of the quilt and other batiks for the border and back.

Maybe I should have included sunglasses with the quilt.

The pattern is the Jelly Roll Race pattern, using 15 2.5-inch strips. I read the pattern wrong (surprise!) and had to take off four rows at the bottom that I placed perpendicular to the main part. Why did I sew them on that way? When the directions for the baby quilt said “sew the last four strips to the bottom,” well, that’s what I did. What I didn’t understand is that all the seams were supposed to be facing the same direction. My last four seems were at a 90-degree angle. It looked odd.

Yes, it looked odd and it was wrong. Fortunately for me, Shelly knew what it was supposed to look like and helped me out (again). I removed the wrong-way rows and then decided that a large border is what it needed. I like the way it turned out and I hope Stella likes it, too. This is the second quilt I’ve ever made. The first one was years ago and I ruined it when I quilted it. This quilt still looked presentable even after I quilted it. I must be improving.

Two for Harrison, an up-and-coming big brother!

Stella doesn’t know it, but she will have a brother waiting for her when she arrives. I made Harrison two Dr Seuss pillow cases to celebrate his promotion to older brother.