blue.

Most of my quilts begin in my head.
You know I have lots of quilt images in my brain from
all those quilt books, quilt magazines, quilt shows, etc.
that I see!!
When I want to make a quilt I will sometimes go to my fabric stash
and pick a color or wild print to get me going.

This time I started with these blues.
I only have a tiny bit of that blue on the right.
And, you'll find out later..if you read this whole post ...
that I didn't end up using that one on the left.
Oh well.
Maybe that will be the backing.
I had a germ of an idea and wondered......
That's also how quilts begin with me.
I wonder "how will this look?"
"How will that look?"
And then I try it!!

I pulled a bunch of fun scraps.
They are mostly strips.


I sewed those strips together (not pictured).
Then I cut those into these 1 1/2" strips of scraps.


Here's my beginning.
A 5" square surrounded by those fun scraps.

I really like the cheery reds
and the white helps soften it.
The last baby quilt had lots of white.
This one has a little!



My next step.
Easy, right?
This border is about 5" wide.






Another border of scraps and then
another blue!!!

I like it!!

My imagination didn't fail me this time!

You can see that other sort of blue I was going to use

would not have looked very good at all on the outer border!

Thankfully I had this solid blue.

Perfect!

2 baby quilts down.

(oops! not quite because they need to be quilted!)

and 3 to go!!