Personalize A Child’s Quilt

My grandson arrived 5 weeks early.  Thankfully he has done well, and is home from the hospital now.  Sadly I was not ready for his arrival.  His baby quilt was on my to do list.  But had not happened.  With the early arrival I went with a simple design.  To make it special I decided to add his name with Chenille it.  I thought you may like to personalize a child’s quilt you have been working on.  So I’ll show you how I did it.

First I went with a simple design.  I did this so that the design did not detract from the prisonization I was adding.  The design I chose was actually my first pattern, Taffy Pull.  It is simple varying widths of fabric cut the length of fabric.  Then framed with a large border that contains two blocks in opposite corners. That echo of the center of the quilt.

This design came to be when I made a mistake with my math and was working to salvage the quilt I was working on.  I had shown it to the shop owner I was sewing displays for at the time.  She loved it!  And asked me to turn it into a pattern.  That is how this whole thing started.  So next time you think you’ve messed up on a quilt.  Remember my experience or try this example.

Anyway, after making the top and quilting it.  I used a chalk making pen to add baby Noah’s name to the lower corner without the echoing block.  Next I stitched two layers of chenille it over the marking.  I then bound and washed it. Watch the process in this video.

I’m pretty pleased with the results.  I hope baby Noah and his parents will enjoy it.