Granny Core Baby Quilt

I sewed my first capital-Q Quilt! The Granny Core Quilt by Daisy Chain Patterns is the first item I’ve made for my infant daughter’s room. I pre-washed the fabric sometime around late August / early September and planned to make some progress before she was born but 1) breaking news: third-trimester pregnant person is too tired to do stuff and 2) her majesty was born ~3 weeks ahead of schedule.

So this quilt ended up being a postpartum project! I call it my first capital-Q Quilt because I’ve made quilted things of my own design, but I’ve never actually followed a pattern to make a quilted blanket.

Technically this will hang on her wall, until/if my daughter decides she wants to use it as a blankie.

My Aunt Brenda sewed the beautiful quilt on the back of the chair! My daughter also received a beautiful, incredibly soft blanket crocheted by my Aunt Linda. Lucky girl 💕

I used mostly Kona Cotton for this quilt: Sea Glass and Nectarine for the top, and Aqua for the binding. The back is a Ruby Star Society quilting cotton in a Hearts Ditsy pattern.

Making notes

• Color selection: I knew I wanted some bright colors in my daughter’s room that coordinate with pink, not necessarily an explosion of pink. She already has a mustard-colored, Mustard-brand locker as a nightstand, so I thought orange might go nicely in there. I chose a very light warm blue as a complementary color for the background.
• Seam silliness: a few pieced strips in, I realized I was losing a bit of width somewhere on my strips. Turns out the edge of my normal presser foot is 3/8", not 1/4" as I’d thought for some reason. I purposefully continued that mistake for the rest of the quilt top so it would be consistent, but there are some bits of funkiness where the design doesn’t totally line up accurately as a result.
• Bias binding: this was my first time attaching bias binding to a quilted object, vs the self-binding I had done on smaller items. I followed this video to attach the binding to the quilt top, and these instructions on hand-sewing to the back. I ended up finding hand-sewing meditative, but I still dislike and am not (yet) skilled at knotting / securing the ends. Let me know your favorite method!

Despite goofups, I’m pleased with how this turned out and have officially been bitten by the quilting bug!