It started with the centre patchwork. I love this style of quilt...Fibonacci like in a way as it grows larger as it goes out from the centre.
The fun part came in deciding what else to add to interest baby!
Different textured and bold coloured fabric patches...
...Loops filled with buttons, tags, foam etc to make sounds and give more textures. I'm hoping these will be great for sucking on when the time comes...
...taggies - I'm assured babies love these things - again, different textures and lengths and can be used to attach things onto...
...and my favourite bit, a mirror, a definite must for all small folk.
I really enjoyed making this and it came together really well after only a bit of fiddling about at the planning stage. I wanted to have lots of patterns in the fabrics I used and stuck to a green, purple and blue palette in the main, using fabrics I already had in my stash so no money needed to be spent save for the plastic mirror (a bargain from Ikea!).
The mirror slots in at the side and is held in place with some lovely chunky wooden buttons so it can be removed to make the whole thing easier to wash.
The whole thing is backed and bound in lovely Liberty print Tana Lawn which I bought ages ago and couldn't decide what to create with as it had too many colours in it. It works well here and the piece was certainly big enough for the job.
And here is daddy very kindly testing it out...
...and a very young Connor (still a little jaundiced) using it for the first time.
Wishing you a good start to December folks.
S. x
