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Today begins the Riley Blake Designs Flannel Showcase Blog Tour! Each Tuesday and Friday a new blog will be featured with a fun project using Riley Blake Flannel! I am excited to participate in this fun event. Click Here to check out the first project!!
I am so excited to be participating in the Riley Blake Designs Quilted Cotton Blog Hop.
Today is my day for the blog hop so WELCOME and thanks for stopping by! I can’t tell you how in love I am with Riley Blake’s new quilted cottons. They come in a variety of patterns and colors. I choose the black chevron which has polka dots on the reverse side. I love giving hand made baby gifts but sometimes it gets a little challenging to create a new quilt from scratch for every baby gift; as much as my heart wants to. The quilted cottons are perfect for sewing for baby: I appliquéd some flowers, added extra wide binding and it’s an adorable play mat or changing mat or quilt for baby.
I also used what was left of the quilted cotton to make a diaper change zipper pouch. It holds all the essentials: diapers, wipes, sanitizer, etc. Continue reading for the instructions….
Supplies:
1 yard Riley Blake Quilted Cotton
6 fat quarters flower appliqué fabric
3/4 yard fabric for wide binding
Therm O Web Spray n Bond basting spray.
Download the flower patterns HERE (for large flower, you will have to enlarge on your computer – it measures about 10.5″ across)
Cut the quilted cotton 35″ x WOF (Of course you can cut whatever size you want)
Cut the 3 sizes of flower and flower centers out to make the pattern.
Pin the pattern pieces to the fabric and cut out.
Spray the Spray n Bond to the wrong side of the fabric appliqué pieces and place on the quilt. It is a bit of a challenge to appliqué on such a large piece of fabric – there was some pushing and pulling involved. I found it easier to spray baste the flowers after finishing sewing the one before.
Stitch around each flower and flower center 2 times using black thread.
To make the extra wide binding…. cut 4 strips 5″ x WOF. Sew together and press in half. Continue as you would with regular binding, only line up the raw edge of the binding 1″ from the edge of the quilt like this:
I machine sewed the binding so it would hold up nice in the wash. I am hoping this will be used more as a changing mat or crawling mat so it will be getting laundered often! I love how it turned out! This could easily be changed up for a boy – the navy and white chevron would be cute with anchors or fish!!
Of course I needed to sew a matching zipper pouch. I like the idea of having all the diaper change stuff in one handy pouch. I used one of my favorite tutorials from my good friend Jennifer. I changed the measurements from 9″x11″ to 8″x11″. The rest of the tutorial is exactly the same.
Cut (2) quilted cotton pieces 8″ x 11″
Cut (2) lining fabric pieces 8″ x 11″
Applique the smallest flower from the quilt pattern above to the side of one of the quilted cotton pieces. Then follow the rest of the tutorial.
I need one of these for myself!!
They make such a darling set! I can’t wait to give this to my friend who is expecting her very first baby!!
Thanks for stopping by! I can’t wait to see all the projects on this fun Blog Tour!!
Cut out the letters and peel off the backing paper. Cut a piece of white fabric 9.25″ wide (the width of the Union Jack) x 19.5″ Place the letters and iron in place. Straight stitch around each letter twice. 
Quilt as desired
These Gracie Girl fabrics from Riley Blake are the cutest! I created this quilt to give to a dear friend who recently adopted a baby girl. The quilt should really be called “Harper Girl” because that is the sweet baby’s name. She is a doll. The tutorial can be found on the Riley Blake Website. It’s a super fun pattern and I love how it shows off the wonderful fabrics!
Sally has been begging me for a half-apron for quite some time. I fell in love with the Remember fabric line designed by Carina Gardner, who I had the privilege of meeting at Sewing Summit! Her Riley Blake Fabrics are so beautiful. I love the vintage feel of this fabric line – it’s perfect to go in my vintage-inspired kitchen. The aprons are pretty simple to make. Here’s what you need:
Supplies:
3/4 yard main fabric
1 yard stripe fabric
1/4 yard pink fabric
1/4 yard pocket fabric
2 yards wide lace
2 yards medium lace
2 yards small lace
Sew the strip sets together using 1/4″ seams in this order. Zig zag each seam to prevent fraying.
Press seams in one direction.
Fold pink raw edge (hem) under 1/4″ and sew.
Lay the wide lace with right sides together along the hem. Sew along the edge of the lace about 1/4″ depending on the lace pattern.
Fold under and press. Top stitch in place.
Next place the medium and small lace along the seams of the fabric strips. Top stitch in place.
Press sides in 1/4″ and bottom 1/4″. Fold the top down about 2.5″ or to your liking.
It should look like this:
Adult apron cut (2) 5″ x WOF and (1) 5″ x 21″
Child apron cut (2) 4″ x 38″ and (1) 4″ x 18″ – you can adjust the length depending on how long you want the ties.
The idea is to have a waistband portion (the shorter piece) in the center and two ties (the longer pieces) on each side.
Sew the waist band pieces end to end with the shortest piece in the center. Press seams open.
Sew a 1/4″ gathering stitch along the top of the aprons. Pull up threads to gather.
Lay the gathered piece along the waistband piece like this – making sure to align centers. Notice right sides are together.
Pin into place. Sew just this portion sewing over the gathering stitch.
Fold the waistband over so folded edges align.
Pin into place. I leave my pins in and turn the apron over and sew using the front of the waistband as my guide. That way the front of the apron looks perfect. The seam catches the back of the waistband just fine. Continue sewing the entire way around the waistband with a 1/8″ seam.
Done!!
I wanted to show off the fabrics so I kept the design pretty simple. I love the feeling the crochet lace adds!
With the leftover scraps I made a few zipper pouches, because I always need more zipper pouches! This one is for my son to keep in his backpack. It holds his Epi-Pen, inhaler, and tissues. (Poor guy)
This one is for me. I am a big Beatles fan 🙂
