Baby Grande Quilt

I work with some fabulous people.  I have been invited to a baby shower for a 'couple' of people that I work with.  When I started this post, Little Vinnie was not here yet.  He is now exactly one week old.  Happy Birthday to Vinnie!  Anyway, when I heard we were having a baby shower for C and JP, due to the impending arrival of their new family member, I whipped up this fun baby quilt from fabrics in my "Juvenile Fabrics" stash.  It is good to not have to go shopping for more fabric when you just want to whip something up!   Plus, I had stacked some odd fabric bits on top of that bin, so I went through them and cleaned up part of my stash cabinet.  After I sewed the top together, sandwiched, and basted it, I stitched in the ditch on my Husky, then stippled and loopy-de-looped on my Necchi.

Doing loop-de-loops!

I had more of the yellow elephant fabric, so that is what I used for the binding.  The backing fabric is from Wittlich, Germany. I bought it at Das Nah Haus in August 2018.  It was just waiting for such an occasion!  Love that bright blue with polka dots fabric.  It goes with everything!

Showing off backing fabric.  (the eggie pillow is from SK)

Back in Idaho! Did buy fabric!

Mary finally found the fabric shop in Wittlich.  We had gone back to Wittlich to have lunch at the Greek restaurant, but it was not open, again.  So we found the Das NahHaus.  They had a limited amount of quilting fabrics, but what they had was very nice.  They had lots of knits, drapery fabrics, some quilting cottons, zippers by-the-yard, hardware, colorful elastic, and a large variety of trims.  They, also, sold sewing machines and had a classroom.  My daughter was looking for fabric for a couple dormer curtains, for the house she lives in, in Klausen. 

    That afternoon, she unpacked her sewing stuff and we got it going on in her dining room all afternoon.  She got one panel, for the very top dormer, all finished.  We did not calculate exactly the width of the seams, so it is a little smaller than she was aiming for, but it works fine and is adorable.

 She plans on calculating better for the seam allowances on the next curtain, which is pointy at the top to fit the next dormer down, in the photo below:

You can see her kitty panel in the high window.  When we visited the fabric shop, I kept my self under control.   I bought less than 4 yards of fabric.   One yard is a border fabric for the borders of baby quilts. I also bought three zippers, with cool looking zipper handles, some colorful elastic, and some catronaut fabric, bright blue floral fabric, and some of the cat fabric (like my daughter's) but with brighter colors.

I included their business card in this photo.

The staff there were very nice, we spoke little German and they spoke no English, but we figured it out!