Green Rectangles

My dear friend is expecting a baby boy in January. I was so excited to put together another small quilt for baby Noah. I don't really know what colors they are going for, but Becky always makes me think "green" .... I really liked these fabrics against the linen. This is also my first attempt at hand quilting. It took a while and a bit of frustration, but I think I got the hang of it finally. Although I don't think you can see it in the pictures, but there I embroidered his name on one of the linen squares.I had a hard time finding a complementary binding... I made the mistake of not buying all my fabric at once, I can never find something to match after the fact... Anyhow, it made me explore the neighborhood a bit so I ended up with some soft red corduroy from Knittin Kitten. I used the rest to make a warm rice pillow cover too (my flash was on the fritz so don't have a picture). I liked it so much that I went back and got more corduroy to make one for ourselves so we can be cosy warm too!

I'll fly away!

Well, for our friend James's big 2nd birthday and to celebrate his move to the big boy bed, I put together a pillow with airplanes on it (to match his sheets). As a special touch I added his name and a button from my brother's uniform when he was in the airforce. I hope he likes it. It is a similar inspiration for the quilt I made for his sister.

Swimmy

All folded up and ready to go!
The back reads love truth light peace... a paraphrase of something that Suzi would say at the end of Randall and my yoga classes.
I like these colors, maybe baby girl kimbro can use it as a lap blanket to read under when she gets older. It's based closely on the Easy Lap blanket in Amy Karol's book.
And the back... with lovely mermaids swimming along...

I also want to post the quilt I made for Owen a few months ago... my first quilting attempt as a baby his favorite color was/is still sometimes Orange... so....
I also made him a cute miniblanket that he could take with him, though it doesn't even come close to replacing his LBB (Little blue blanket) that is his companion in sleep!
The back is a cool yellow flannel with a modern flower pattern, you can't quite see it in this picture, but it makes me smile because really... it's like 90dgrees out the day I finished this rather warm quilt project.
Mom and I designed it off of the knitting pattern for some sort of a modern log cabin pattern from Mason-Dixon Knitting (a super fun knitting book).