23-7-2009 - Easy Baby Quilt Pattern & Frog Hooded Baby Bath Towel Pattern

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Easy Baby Quilt Pattern - Strip Quilting

Step One

Pick out coordinating cotton fabrics for your quilt and then cut into strips. Your strips can be the same width or different, it is completely up to you! Using the same width will create more of a square patchwork while using different widths will give more of a random pattern.

Step Two

Next, sew together your strips until you reach the length of the quilt you want. I generally do a couple sets of strips so I can have a few variations in the order. Then cut across your strips (creating strips of strips) as shown in the second image with the ruler.

Step Three

Now assemble your patchwork strips in an order that looks good to you and then sew them together.

Next, you'll create what is called the "quilt sandwich" which is the patchwork quilt top, the interior quilt batting (I use a bamboo/cotton blend) and the cotton backing material of your quilt. Pin together.

Step Four

Finally you will make your quilt...a quilt! You can either hand quilt or machine quilt, it is up to you. For quicker results, obviously machine quilting has its benefits and it what I chose to make this tutorial. You can machine quilt randomly or create patterns with your machine.

Once it is fully quilted, you can finish the quilt by adding on the binding. You can purchase quilt binding as shown or you can make your own out of fabric or fabric ribbon.

Sew all along the outer edge of the inside out eye except for the bottom so that you can turn it right side out. Be gentle when you turn it right side out, it is a bit tricky with these small eyes and you don't want to tear through the terrycloth.

Now lay your eyes upside down on the right side of the terry and tack them down by sewing. In the image shown above, the black & white part of the eyes are facing towards the table. This part is a bit confusing if you've never sewed from the inside out before, but look at the next step and it should make sense.

Lay your 2nd frog head half circle on top of the one that has the eyes sewn on and sew all along the rounded edge only. In the second photo above, you can see the eyes on the inside. So when you turn it right side out, the eyes are perfectly sewn in place!

Turn right side out and the adorable froggie hooded baby bath towel pattern emerges! Next, find the center of your rectangular towel (if you are not using a pre-made towel and are using fabric like I am, be sure to finish all raw edges first by turning over and sewing) and lay your frog hood on it.

Sew the hood onto the towel body. Make sure to sew securely here, especially at the outer edges as this is the main place for the hooded towel to tear. I like to use a zigzag stitch here and go over it at least twice. Finally, you have an adorable frog all from this super simple hooded baby bath towel pattern!