Scalloped Edge Baby Quilt Tutorial

A new niece is a lovely excuse for making pretty baby things. I've been dying for an opportunity to use some pretty girly, floral fabric. I thought this scalloped-edge baby quilt would be the perfect chance for it.

After prewashing and ironing your fabrics, lay out the fabric right-sides together (I used 1 yard of each fabric for this project).

Put the right-sides-together fabric on top of your quilt batting.

Smooth out any wrinkles or creases.

Trace a scalloped pattern onto the fabric with a bowl or plate.  The size of my bowl allowed me to do 5 scallops by 7 scallops on my fabric.

I measured how far in I wanted the scallops to go, so they'd all be the same.

Pin the three layers together.

 

Stitch along the line you drew, leaving enough room to turn it (I left one scallop).

Cut off the excess.

Trim curves, especially in between the scallops.  Cut all the way to the line in between the scallops, being careful not to clip your stitches.

Turn.  Using a pencil or your hand, push out all the seams, making it look the way you want.  Press.  Stitch closed the portion you left open. 

Quilt your quilt, "drawing" a line with your stitches from the edge of one scallop to the end of its sister across the other side of the blanket.

Continue quilting along the length of your quilt.

Admire your work!

Happy Easter!

I hope you're all having a lovely Easter Sunday!  Hubby, the kiddos, and I had a lovely Easter dinner of ham, potato casserole, Jell-o Jiggler Easter Eggs, and Pioneer Woman's roast asparagus.  We used our cute Easter plates from Target (love the plaid!) and I made carrot silverware bundles, as seen at Our Best Bites.

I even tried my hand at Instructables' homemade Cadbury Creme Egg recipe.  They turned out a little flatter than I intended (I didn't freeze them for long enough before dipping), but they are very yummy!  

It's been a nice, relaxing, Easter.  In addition to Easter celebrations, we're celebrating the arrival of a new adorable niece this week.  And, I finished her baby quilt just in time!

This mom of boys had great fun picking out fabrics for this sweet baby girl.  Look for a tutorial for the quilt later this week!

Quilts!

For a church service project, I put together 4 quilts (in 3 days!) for everyone to tie.  Here they are:

My favorite is the Chuck Wagon/Cowboy print with the horseshoe backing.  My second favorite (almost first) is the storybook print with the green backing.  It's a Mary Engelbert print, whom I usually don't like, but I found this one at Walmart and thought it was adorable.  It has Goldilocks and the 3 bears, the Little Red Hen, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.  It's very cute.  3rd place is the airplane print.  I'd wanted to do a yellow backing with yellow border, but couldn't find any quilt binding that matched so I did it in blue.  I would have just changed the backing to blue as well, but I'd already bought the fabric.  So, I like it a lot, but it didn't turn out quite as I'd hoped.  The last one is a train print with a red backing. 

The binding is atrocious, so don't look too closely.  :)  I guess that's what happens when a non-quilter makes all the quilts.  So be it.  I think they're cute anyway.  :)