Baby quilt advise please

[Chrissy1]

Our cousin's son and wife just had their first baby. They had a girl. I have lots of pink fabrics becasue I like pink, and with 5 grandsons I mostly work with cars, blues, browns, etc, and mostly flannel rag quilts. Can anyone suggest a simple pattern that I might use to make Berlin Victoria (yes that is her name, and no I have no clue where it came from)a baby quilt and also what size would any suggest. I am a simple quilter and haven't done it very long. Thank you

[mequilter9158]

Chrissy.........check over in the photo discussion, I believe one of the girls posted a picture on a layout for a pink quilt, using lots of pinks. She also posted a picture of the quilt when it was done. Hope this will help you.

[Eajosian]

I agree, look at the photo...I think I saw 2 very pretty ones...

[sewbug]

Check you PM.

[morgans4]

One of the prettiest baby quilts I've ever made... so I've made 2 or 3 of them, was simple 9 patches of various colors of solids and gingham with white. Pink, yellow, green, blue, purple. Of course, some had 5 gingham and 4 whites and others had 5 whites and 4 ginghams. I separated them with white squares the same size, and each solid white had a heart of purple solid or purple gingham, pink solid or pink gingham, etc.
I believe that each 9 patch measured 6", so to make them I cut 2 1/2" strips and sewed them together (color/white/color)(white/color/color)and then cut across into 2 1/2" strips. Then put the strips together. It was so easy. I used pink gingham as my backing. I put 2" prairie points all around it. To do this, I measured all around the 4 sides and divided by 2, then I divided that number by the number of colors I was going to use. Of course I used both gingham and solids, but no whites. This final number told me how many of each color I needed to make. I pinned all the prairie points onto the quilt top, raw edges together, then put the backing on top, batting on the bottom and stitched all around, leaving a small space for turning. I then turned in those raw edges and hand-stitched the opening closed. I used my walking foot to go around each heart about 1/4" away, and in the ditch of all the patches. They were (are) just beautiful.
You wouldn't have to use all the colors that I did. You could just use green, pink and lavender, or something like that. I bought solid fabrics that matched the gingham. I didn't use the largest or smallest size of gingham squares. Very feminine and girly.
The one I made for my daughter, now 20, my mother-in-law hand quilted, so it's really special to her, since we both made it together and her grandmother has since passed. It wasn't quite finished when she was born, but we brought our daughter home, wrapped in this quilt anyway, and her in-hospital pictures has it in the background, with her laying on it.
I think it ended up being something like 54" square so she was able to carry it around with her when she was walking.

Joanne

[Joannequilts]

Joanne - Last week I made a baby quilt - rail fence with 6 inch squares - all out of my stash ( THAT is a FIRST!!!). I've made probably 10 baby quilts, all different, but this time I used flannel as the backing for the first time. I loved it! So soft and cuddly and EASY!

Joanne

[Chrissy1]

Thanks everyone for all the help and advise. I really appreciate it.