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Pinwheels and Elephants Quilt For New Born Baby



When I completed my borgello hearts quilt, it had taken so long that I forgot about the actual first ever quilt I made for Baby Aprorva, our friends Tulsi and Abhijaat's new born boy :) I wanted to gift them something hand made and this is what it turned out. This was something I just came up with in paint shop and was then quite easy to go ahead and stitch. Only troublesome part in it was making that elephant shape. I went ahead and drew it on one page and then cut the rest using sharp scissor. Used the applique technique to stitch it to the quilt and hand hemmed it to make sure the edges don't come out. Also hand hemmed the double folded fabric strip as a binding. Overall then I wasn't that satisfied with this quilt but now when I look back in perspective I am quite happy about how it turned out given this was my first ever quilt and I had to learn basic stuff through books and youtube videos.

Started by designing this in paint. (And you will soon realize from my posts I am nerd and addicted to technology :D) It helped me play with color combinations, shapes till I had something I really liked.


Then I bought following material:
Blue fabric - 2.25 Yard
Green fabric - 1 yard
Yellow fabric  - 1 Yard
Chocolaty fabric- 3/4 Yard
Batting of size 45 x 60 inch
Pin wheels
 
Make 4 Pin Wheels for corners:
 

Index
Color
Shape to cut
Count
Total cut pieces
1
Yellow
5-1/8 inch square
2
4 triangles
2
Green
5.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
3
Blue
5.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
4
Blue
8.5 inch x 1.5 inch
2
2
5
Blue
10.5 x 1.5 inch
2
2
6
Chocolaty
Circle according to pattern for center of pinwheel
1
1

 
Center pieces for top and bottom portion - Make 2 mirror pieces
 
Index
Color
Shape to cut
Count
Total cut pieces
1
Yellow
10.5 x 5.5
1
1
2
Yellow
6.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
3
Blue
6.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
4
Blue
3.25  + 1/8 inch square
4
8 triangles
5
Green
3.25  + 1/8 inch square
4
8 triangles
6
Chocolaty
Mirror patterns
1
2

Center Pinwheels piece -Make 1

Index
Color
Shape to cut
Count
Total cut pieces
1
Yellow
5-1/8 inch square
4
8 triangles
2
Green
5-1/8 inch square
2
4 triangles
3
Green
5.25 inch square
2
8 triangles
4
Chocolaty
5.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
5
Blue
5.25 inch square
3
12 triangles
6
Blue
8.5 inch x 1.5 inch
2
2
7
Blue
8.5 inch x 2.5 inch
2
2
8
Blue
30.5 x 1.5 inch
2
2
9
Chocolaty
Circle according to pattern for center of pinwheel
2
2
10
Yellow
Circle according to pattern for center of pinwheel
1
1

 

Both sides  pieces - Make 2 mirror pieces for two sides



Index
Color
Shape to cut
Count
Total cut pieces
1
Yellow
5.5 inch x 5.5 inch
2
2
2
Yellow
4 inch x 4 inch
4
4
3
Yellow
6.25 inch square
1
4 triangles
4
Blue
6.25 inch square
1.5
6 triangles
5
Blue
3.25  + 1/8 inch square
12
24 triangles
6
Green
6.25 inch square
0.5
2 triangles
7
Green
3.25  + 1/8 inch square
4
8 triangles
8
Green
3inch x 3inch
4
4
9
Green
30.5 inch x 1.5 inch
1
1
10
Yellow
30.5 inch x 2 inch
1
1
11
Chocolaty
Mirror patterns
1
2

For Borders cut along its width (all the fabrics were 44 inch wide) :


Index
Color
Strip Width
Count
1
Chocolaty
1.5 inch
5
2
Yellow
1.5 inch
6
3
Green
1.5 inch
6
4
Blue
2.5 inch
6
5
Chocolaty
2.5 inch
5.5


Used remaining blue fabric for backing.
Chocolaty fabric (5) from above cut was folded in half and stitched as double cloth binding.
Quilting was done using stitch in ditch method, only I didn't know it was called that until I read about it :)
 
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