Hot Pink Chevrons and Baby Girls, They Go Together

     My close friend's daughter is having her first baby and it's a girl. She chose hot pink chevrons with purple accents for her nursery. Since I had Riley Blake Hot Pink Chevron in stock, I imagined 60's style flowers appliqued from a cute purple floral print. When I went shopping I couldn't find anything I had imagined. I did, however, find all the Michael Miller and Moda Dots pictured below and bought  them in 1/4 yards or fat quarters.

     I used the freezer paper method to make the flower applique then used the applique stitch on my machine. It was the first time I'd appliqued with the machine so I practiced first. It get easier the more you do and by the time I finished all 10 flowers I felt like an old pro.

     I used the lightest weight polyester batting and spray glued the layers together. Then I quilted just the top of every other chevron. When I finished hte quilting I showed The Engineer and his comment was that it didn't look complete with every other chevron being quilted, back to the machine, I quilted every chevron. He was right, it looked finished. I lengthened my stitch from a 2.5 to a 4, I think a little longer stitch looks better. 

     Here's the happy mom with her finished quilt. I forgot to show a picture of the backing, it's light purple minky with little swirls that look like flowers.  I was worried about the hot pink thread I used to quilt with, thinking it would stand out too much on the back. The minkie swallowed it but you can still see a slight chevron pattern on the back.  

    

The baby shower was fun, good friends and food were plentiful in Barbara's beautiful yard. 

I have to share with you the adorable baby buggy fruit bowl she made, 

have you ever seen anything so cute?!?!