I made this little cutie last spring and kept it under wraps until it went as a gift to some friends for their darling baby Abigail, born last month.
The beautifully simple pattern is yet another from Allison Harris's Growing Up Modern. (I ran across a copy in a quilt shop with my quilt-group friends at our retreat and bored them to death by showing them I'd made that one and that one and ...)
I shamelessly copied Allison's color scheme also -- I loved her red/pink/blue combination. I used some of the reds and aquas that didn't make it into my lifesavers quilt and added some of the pinks I've collected in my treasure-hunting in the back of M & L. I thought the aqua gingham on the bias would be just perfect for the binding. I still have a ton of it. Love me some gingham.
For the back, some multi-color dot and a little of the leftover pink and red.
I free-motion quilted in rows of random loops -- one of my new favorite patterns. So fast and cute on a modern quilt. And now it's so much easier with my new sewing machine table. I'll talk about that more when I post my latest modern baby quilt ...
This cute little Road Trip Case was a Christmas present for the daughter of a friend. I had really been looking for a reason to buy this pattern at Noodlehead and it seemed like it would make a good gift for an elementary schooler with a lot of important stuff to tote around.
You can see that it comes with a bunch of handy pockets of different shapes and sizes. I was a little concerned that I wouldn't be able to get that binding around the edge tidy enough with all those layers, but it came together pretty neatly. It was fun to mix and match the fabrics.
I test drove it with some cross-stitch supplies. This would come in handy for me since I keep all this stuff in a ziploc bag. Classy.
My friend said her daughter immediately gathered up all her art supplies and fit them into all the little spaces for the big road trip to the grandparents! I'm so pleased it got used right away!
This was a fun project I would definitely make again.
