I totally stole this design from the Freshlemonsquilt.com site. And she was inspired by the original designer–just read her blog. She has beautiful photos and quilts.

So this quilt is super easy: One layer cake of patterned pieces plus a stack of 5″ cream squares. It goes together like magic.

The beautiful little guy I’m making this for just turned one. I bought the fabric (a layer cake of Moda’s Mod Century) before he was born. I couldn’t decide on a pattern, so the fabric stayed on the shelf.

I was touring my favorite quilt blogs when I spotted this cool “pattern”, although it is more of a technique than a pattern. You simply add solid color flipped corners (they start as 5″ squares) to two sides of each layer cake 10″ square. Then you arrange the blocks so that four solid colored (cream in my quilt) corners form a square. At first sight, I knew this was a perfect fit for the fun, funky, boy-friendly fabric.

So after a year, my idea of giving the little guy a baby quilt has morphed. Now I’m making a toddler quilt. If I don’t get it done soon, I’ll have to make it big enough for a big-boy bed 🙂

I still have to finish quilting it; I’m practicing my free motion stippling. Maybe I’ll post some pics after it’s all done.

My first blog… It all started in 2014.

Why did I start a blog? Because I quilt. Not show quilts, but pretty quilts that I love. I mostly make quilts for gifts. My Mom suggested I keep a quilt diary to record photos and instructions. That suggestion got me thinking. The result is this blog.

Over the years, I’ve added some of my favorite recipes. And now I’m planning to document our cabin’s renovation.

Mostly, this blog is like a personal diary… that I’ve opened up to the world.