A new baby has a way of transforming life not only for her parents, but for everybody else in the family. When my granddaughter Willa came in for an earth landing three months ago, she launched me into a new hobby.
I stitched up a quilt top for her crib and found it too big to stitch at home. I decided to learn to use a long arm machine. (I’ve never even considered doing one by hand!) This proved intoxicating, and so I began to make a series of quilts. It surprised me how quickly they could be completed. Here are a few that now reside in Willa’s new home. A style of stitching that I’ve used extensively on them was invented by Karen McTavish.
For Willa’s parents (a Kaffe Fassett pattern) —
I made this baby quilt using an old Vogue pattern from the 1970s, with my own variations —
This small one is the Ricky Timm’s “harmonic convergence” pattern —
