Geometrics 3 - Pink Baby Quilt

I told you all that I wanted to use these geometrics up in relatively quick fashion, didn’t I?

I decided to go on a tear and “just do it”.

This one is interesting. I had this piece of pink fabric and I decided to just “use it all up” - ok, it was actually a second hand sheet, I believe, but I had put it with my solids.

Most of my solid pinks are much darker or more intense than this one, so I pulled it out and checked how big it was. When I opened it up I noticed that it was actually a piece of second-hand fabric. I just cut it all into 4.5” squares and then cut the same number of the black/white geometric pieces. That’s how I decided how big to make this one.

I’m surprised how much I like it! I figured I’d find it quite “ho hum” but it intrigued me - the soft pastel with the bold black and white. In the end, I hope that the people I made it for will like it! It’s a large-ish baby quilt. I’m making all of these kind of small - either baby size or up to a lap or small twin size. I can only handle piecing all these geometrics in smaller doses!

But these are going together pretty quickly as they are small. And easy.

So, while this number 3, I’ve actually finished 2 MORE tops than this and have 2 more than that in the works. I’m afraid to even predict how many more quilts I can get since I was seriously off in my estimate of my blues in my Upcycled Blues series. Also, I’m making these small, so each one of these is not taking a large number of 4.5” squares.

I made this one by first sewing all the pink solid pieces to a geometrics piece and then making a 4 patch. Then I made a 16 patch out of it and then I put the 16 patches together.

At times the chevron pieces weren’t as spaced out as well as I would have wanted but it is how it just worked as I put them together.

I decided to just not worry about that or the border. I’m using short pieces with the border and I know that the pattern is messed up where I am sewing the two pieces together. I decided that it just had to be part of the charm of it. I could either stress about it, not use these shorter pieces as borders, or just “let it go”. I decided to let it go and use them as is.

The recipients of these baby quilts aren’t going to worry about it and the baby certainly doesn’t care. I am not willing to do the amount of “fiddling” required to make those border pieces look like one continuous piece. When I was trimming the original scraps into strips, I would have needed to make sure that the cuts were from the same angle and part of the fabric - and I didn’t do that. It will be a bit more obvious in one of the next couple of tops you will see.

So there you go - I don’t think a pattern is necessary for this one! It’s simply 4.5” squares sewn together. I sewed a 1.5” piece for the inner black border and used pieces of the 4.5” geometrics to form the outermost border.

And that’s it!

It didn’t take long to make at all.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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