Babybook: Hungry Caterpillar

So, for christmas I gave one very special baby the promise to finish his book about the very hungry caterpillar soon. 
There are all kinds of colors and textures (woven, knitted wool, flannel, plush fabric, quilting fabric, seersucker, and the caterpillar at one of the last pages has been stuffed with batting to show that it really has eaten a lot) and there is even a rattle and some pages are crackling because I lined them with oven bags. Since I finally finished it and gifted it to him, I can also share pictures:

Have you ever sewn a baby book?

Johanna

New Babyquilt with Park Life and Spring Walk

These past few months I seem to only have made it to the sewing machine when I needed to fix something - broken hems, seams, button holes - or when someone in my immediate family needed something like a bag. 

Well, since I am now a proud aunt, I dusted off the sewing machine and got to make a new quilt. Baby quilts are so rewarding: you can try that pattern that you always wanted to try but without commiting to a whole big quilt (because I still have so many of those waiting...) and it is always for someone who might not be able express his gratitude (if you don't count spitting up on it - when you think about it, that actually sound like a compliment) but they look so adorable on a quilt! 

This one is made from two FQ bundles: Park Life and Spring Walk ( both Cloud 9). I originally planned on making the back with the double gauze fabric from Birch (that's the green border you see on the backing) but they didn't have enough and I got to use more of my FQ this way. I also added a few fabrics along the way because I needed a color wheel (quilter's linen and some Heather Ross fabric).

Since this one has a very lofty batting, quilting it wasn't very easy and as you can see, it warps  a bit on the edges (it looks worse on the pictures and I think that after washing it, this should disappear).

It was very well received and I can see more quilts for the baby - judging by the rate I was sewing in the past years this will likely take a few years.

What have you been up to?

Johanna