Reversible Butterfly/Cinderella Charity Baby/Toddler Quilt in Pink, Purple, Blue

Another charity quilt made from pre-cut squares my sister bought and then passed on to me.

 

Since there were butterflies all over the top, I changed my plans for quilting it in some abstract, free-motion way, and did some free-motion, very organic butterflies for the quilting.

The batting is that overly puffy poly batting that was given to me and because of its loft, was extremely hard to work with.  It required free-motion quilting from the front of the machine so I could help guide the fabric (keep it from shifting as I sewed). Even with all my efforts to the contrary, it was impossible to entirely prevent some tucks while quilting, thanks to the batting. I'm glad this is my last quilt with this stuff. I'm grateful for the gift of the batting, but I would never buy it, and I learned a lot using it.

The back is like a whole different quilt with Cinderella fabric. I guess which is the front and which is the back of the quilt is purely up to the recipient of this quilt.

Turning Twenty Charity Quilt #1 in Country Colors, Quilted with Free-Motion Bubbles

A neighbor told me his church was collecting supplies for refugees. One of the items on the list was blankets. I thought I'd just whip out some quilts using some of the fabric given to me. I went through the fat quarter bins, pulling out all the fabrics that would be hard for me to use. I then divided them up into 3 piles that seemed to coordinate best. Using the same pattern (Turning Twenty), I pieced 3 tops. This is the first of them. It is twin sized. 

After putting together the tops, I went through the bins with larger sized pieces to make backs for the quilts. This was the easiest (thus the reason it was finished first), since the fabric was big enough to simply sew two large pieces together to make it.

The batting I used in this was a very fluffy poly batting that was given to me. It looks great, but it is a pain in the buttootie to work with! It's too poofy to use rulers, or even sew from the back with a pantograph. I had to be in the front to hold things in place, so I went with a simple wavy lines design with what one of my sisters calls "Bubbles." The idea (called "Effervescent") came from Christina Cameli's book, "Step by step Free-motion Quilting."

The scrappy binding is made from pieces leftover from the back and front.