Baby Quilts for Nancy

I made two baby quilts for Nancy to use at her auction. Because I waited too long and had to make them quickly and couldn't find any coordinates that I like at Joann Fabric, I used the elemens of the The Land of Whimzie precuts to make the quilts. Great decision!

The kit came with 12 pieces - 10.5 x 10.5 squares of precut 100% flannel squares. There were the following squares: 5 different prints.
3 plain
3 print or 3 plaid
2 different print, white

2 small print light or plain light
2 small print darker

Additionally there were appliques that I purchased that go with each quilt. I didn't like the sticky on the applique back so I did my own heat & bond fusible backing.

I purchased the backing to put on the quilt but decided that the quilt needed "more" so I cut the backing into 3.5" border strips which fit fine. There were 4 border strips and enough left over to make the binding strips - there were maybe 6 binding strips sewn together for 2.5" binding.

I purchase a plain denim like backing made by the same folks and purchased 3 years which was enough to do both quilts.

The binding came out great for the first time because I followed a video that I found http://cluckclucksew.com/2013/01/machine-binding-tutorial.html

There was an bit of an uneven turn over on the binding strip so I hand sewed the binding all away around the quilt. I then used a decorated stitch on my machine to topstitch on the top a bit to the right of the ditch, came out awesome.These are the views on the back. This took more time but it came out much more professional and I think that might be my "signature" on a quilt from now on. Looks so cool and it really keeps the quilt back looking good.