I have two cousins who are sisters who had baby boys within months of each other. I love to make quilts but, sometimes don’t have the time to make them for gifts but, people expect handmade gifts when you sew. So, I decided to make quickie blankets and toys for both of them. I had to make the gifts different but, sorta equal. This was the gift for one of the sisters. I’ll share the second gift tomorrow. I stashed the Peak Hour fabric by Kellie Wulfsohn just for gifts like this. It was such a fun line with many possibilities.
The blanket top WAS pieced. I used a modification of the pinless piecing technique to piece what I called “Inserts”.
I put a nice cozy minkie on the back and roudned the corners.
Then, I cut up the vehicles from the Peak Hour fabric and made a fabric book. This was a lot of fun to do.
All text was printed on my Epson printer direction on to a Kona White fabric. Of course I gave Kellie credit for her awesome illustrations. 🙂
And, I pulled coordinating fabrics and framed each page.
Each page is lined with batting.
The corners are rounded to coordinate with the blanket.
So many fun pages. This has to be my favorite!
And, the classified print on the back.
And, of course they got a card.
