Baby Girl Quilt

I've been dying to create something, especially to sew something, so I decided to make a quilt for a baby girl (nope, not for me!). I saw a diamond quilt on the cover of a quilting magazine and thought it was so cute that I decided to give it a try. I remembered that I loved the black and white fabrics I saw when my friend Billie and I went fabric shopping last year, so that's the way I headed. And I added some pinks to keep it from being too grown-up.

The diamonds were only slightly more difficult to cut out (using a rotary cutter and ruler) than a typical square. And piecing them together wasn't bad either. But laying it out and keeping track of where I was was extremely confusing, since there was no solid edge until I cut off the halves of the diamonds that were on the edges. Plus, I was just sewing the different fabrics together in a random pattern, which was really hard for my mind to grasp. Does that even make any sense? Probably not. But it wasn't all that bad, and I totally think it was worth it.
After I'd made the top, I saw this gorgeous SOOOOFT pink swirly fabric for $12.99/yd at Hobby Lobby (one of the coolest decorating/crafting stores on the planet) and had to get it for the backing. I only needed one yard, so it wasn't too bad. I had enough left over for a border on the front which made all the difference in the world on how cute it turned out.

And Cindy (my mother in law) had just taught me how to do real binding, so I tried my hand at that as well with some black fabric. Even though it's FAR from perfect, I really liked that look over the rolled edge that I usually do.

Pretty cute, eh? I think it's my favorite quilt I've made yet.