Recently a very good friend of mine had her first baby. A baby GIRL! Baby Abbie!! I love her to death already. I could spend all day looking at her beautiful face and watching her sleep. So I got to working on a super cute Chevron baby quilt for her to enjoy!
The sex of the baby was unknown until the birth, which drove me crazy because I wanted to start making so many cute baby things, especially cute girly things. Instead I struggled to think of a gender neutral color scheme that would work for a very special quilt. And …
This is what I came up with. I used an orange, blue, and grey color scheme, all with cute animal prints, and put it all together in a chevron baby quilt pattern.
For the back I used a large piece of grey charcoal colored fabric, a grey pock-a-dot fabric and left over squares of animal print fabrics, which were used on the front of the quilt. I also quilted the Chevron baby quilt following the chevron pattern.
As she grows up she can learn her different animals while cuddling up under this quilt!
I doubled the quilt batting in this quilt to give it more thickness, so that Abbie has more cushion when laying or playing on it. This makes the quilt a little heavy to use as a blanket right now, but it will work in the winter as she grows up. (I have linked the kind of quilt batting that I used at the bottom of this post) ?.
I love this quilt! I am very happy with the colors and how it all came together. This quilt definitely would not have come together if I had of known she was a girl. Instead it would have been very, very pink and girly.
I bound the quilt with white tree fabric. This was the first time I made my own binding. It is so easy (check out my binding tutorial here)! Now my binding world has opened up to any print or any color that I can find.
I had a lot of fun picking all the cute fabrics for this quilt, and I look forward to making more baby quilts in the future. Maybe for my own babies? One day… Until then I love holding and loving baby Abbie!
I hope this post inspires you to create you own Chevron quilt for the new babies in your life! Have fun creating!
XO JCL
P.S. Here are the links to my Brother sewing machine, and Heirloom quilt batting, that I used to create this awesome chevron baby quilt.
You are such an amazing daughter and friend Jenna Clair…..How about Pillow cases that say I Love You More!
Thanks Daddy! I LOVE YOU MORE!
I LOVE this!!! it is so beautiful – it makes me want to sew~~~ {I have no idea how}
I didn’t know how either until I looked at a tutorial. Just teach yourself. I know you can do it!
How long would you say something like that took you to make?
It took me about 2-3 days. But I will quilt all day long. Realistically a week if you are just working on it in the evenings. I found this tutorial really easy to follow: http://aquiltisnice.blogspot.ca/2008/09/zig-zag-quilt-kit-tutorial.html . Just substitute your own fabrics. I know you can do it! Enjoy!