Welcoming Addison

Our new niece, Addison, was born last week. We can't wait to meet her! When we found out her gender in May, I wanted to make something that would coordinate with her room's decor. My sister-in-law was planning pinks and browns and polkadots. Inspiration came from muse75's quilt, kliebean's quilt and emptybobbin's quilt on flickr.



After auditioning several shades of solid browns and pinks, I paired it down to 3 colors. The binding, backing and monogram is a Joel Dewberry circle print in pink. I diamond quilted the blanket with thick hot pink thread before applying the circles, which I made using Anna Maria Horner's directions for Super Circles. To each circle I added thin batting and double-sided fusing then sewed them onto the quilt with a zigzag stitch. Initially the circles were just right, but after the quilt was washed, the batting and fabric was much looser and not exactly perfect. If I had it to do it over again, I would use only fusible interfacing, like I did with the letters that I added in the last step. They stayed much firmer, even after washing. Somehow, I don't think the baby will mind. The size is about 42" x 55".

And it wouldn't be complete without an elephant for Addison and her big brother, too.