My daughter made this darling quilt for her daughter and had it all quilted up cute. All that need to be done was to put the binding on and it would be finished. Easy, right? Well not to her. She struggled to get it finished and finally just brought it to me to complete it. Isn’t that what moms are for? I really didn’t mind, because I just worked on it one evening while we were watching a ball game. She designed this pattern from a couple of other quilts that she had seen, and of course I loved all the ruffles!
(I cannot believe that we are taking pictures outside in the middle of January in Utah and there is no snow!)
She started with 8 1/2 ” squares of fabric. Then she cut 2″ x width of fabric strips for the ruffles. She then cut the strips in half so they were about 21-22″ long. Gather each of the strips and sew them onto half of the squares. She randomly placed 5 minky flowers on 5 of the blocks with no ruffles. She stitched 1/4″ from edges of flowers and also from the edges of the centers of the flowers. She then laid it out on the floor and placed every other block with ruffles and each row had the ruffles turning the opposite way. Then simply sew the blocks together and then sew the strips together. I think that her design turned out absolutely darling. She put a minky backing on it so it is such a cozy quilt for her little girl. The edges of all the ruffles and the flower centers are raw, so that when you wash it, it will rag out and be so soft and cuddly!
I think that I might need to get another quilt project going after seeing how darling this one turned out! I loved the fact that she designed this all by herself, it tends to make a mother right proud! :)
Wow that quilt is sooooooo cute!!
Love this variation on the rag quilt. Normally I have seen (and what I have done) is just standard blocks. The variety of the block sizes add so much character! THanks for the idea!
Happy Day!
L
Very cute!! I may just have to give this a try! Thank you for posting.
How many diff fabrics?..yardage? Flannel?
Barb, I do not know the yardage in this quilt. My daughter just made it up and I did not take the time to figure out the pattern. There is a little bit of a description in the post: http://pinkpolkadotcreations.com/?s=ruffled+quilt. She did not use flannel, but she used cotton for the squares and minky for the flowers. Sorry I could not give you more information. Good luck with your project.
Thank you. I have 2 little nieces, 5 and 10, this is so fabulous, I might take this for inspiration. I only have 2 man boys . Ha ha. Beautiful, thank you so very much. Kia Ora from New Zealand. :)
Lindy, You are welcome. I am the same way with granddaughters…the grandsons outnumber them by more than double! So we have to get our ruffles and frill in where ever we can! Thank you for taking the time to write your kind comment. I loved hearing from you! Rita