I actually got time to sew yesterday too! Woo hoo! I am on a roll :). It seems there is a plethora of babies being born among my local circle of friends and family and I am in need of baby quilts. This top is likely the most simple baby quilt top I have ever put together. Six inch squares. That’s it. It took about an hour to put this together once I decided what to do. This is for a friend that is decorating her nursery with …..gulp….frogs. I can’t stand frogs. I could not bear to make a froggy quilt of any sort. So I decided to go with froggy colors.

These are fabrics I dyed last summer. I presoaked my fabric in the soda ash solution then stuffed it in a plastic shoebox. I poured lemon yellow dye at one end and turquoise at the other end and let them run together. So in actuality, I only used two fabrics to make this top. Couldn’t get any simpler than that! This mom-to-be is not an old fashioned girl so the typical 30s repro fabrics that I often use for baby quilts just wouldn’t cut it.

I am struggling with the fact that this was TOO easy. I never make gifts that are this easy. It feels like cheating. But then again, I only have a week and a half until the shower. Not sure how I will quilt it yet. I am thinking random wavy lines from top to bottom, maybe with a varigated thread or perhaps using a number of different colors pulled from the dyed fabric. I keep thinking it needs something that looks like sea weed.

Tomorrow I hope to find a backing fabric and get it basted. Until next time.