Cousin Kelly's Second Baby Girl!

Kelly's adding another one to her adorable family! Little Brigid has already been welcomed into the world, unfortunately her loving cousin is a bit behind in her quilting. I've just gotten the appliqueing done, and am planning on getting the batting to do the quilting tomorrow.  Again, this one was a learning experience, and I'm going to be attempting a minky backing again. Well here's the preliminary shots!

Here's the whole top. It's all batiks, and I love that it's a mix of all different hues of pink.

I did her name the same way that I did with my previous baby quilt. I absolutely love the font, I found it at dafont, they have a ton of fun fonts that can help make your quilt so much more personalized.

One of two flowers in the corners of the borders. I made them out of minky....this proved to be a little tricky. You're not supposed to iron minky, so using Steam-A-Seam was out. I hand cut the individual petals out, and traced the design onto the border with the washable Dritz marker. I used very small dots of Liquid Stitch to hold the petals in place.  I waited about 10 minutes before stitching. Again, I used a blanket stitch, and I had to be very careful because the hairs on the minky move making it hard to judge where the true edge of the fabric really is. I did find that if the minky got a little unruly, it was easily corrected by some close trimming with embroidery scissors.

I'm not sure how I'm going to quilt it yet, I'll most likely try mimicking the flowers in the borders in some of the blocks, but I was thinking of throwing in some hummingbirds and dragonflies like there are in the fabric. Hopefully I'll be getting the batting tomorrow and having a quilting party on the longarm over Thanksgiving!!