Another alphabet baby quilt

Another alphabet baby quilt, a photo by saffronbee1 on Flickr.

After Hei Hei's quilt, my quilting bugs kept nudging me to make another one. What's better to use up the alphabet panel that gave me a headache. I intended to make something quick and simple. I didn't cut up the panel this time. Just added two contrasting borders around it. The simplest quilt pattern that I can every think of. This quilt is simple and yet very eye-catching. Does it look better than the other one? I have added complexity to the quilt by stippling the whole quilt. I ended up having to use invisible thread for the stippling since there's so much different colour on the panel.

Back to the borders, I do love the whale fabric. Should have bought more!!! It's a beautiful boy fabric that I seldom see. I am pretty the bolt will be gone by now since it was on sale like AUD 7 a metre. This quilt went to my cousin Fung Fung in Hong Kong. He likes reading. Got to check out if he has learnt all alphabets on the quilt. ;)

A alphabet baby quilt

A alphabet baby quilt, a photo by saffronbee1 on Flickr.

I bought an alphabet panel from Spotlight thinking that it would be great for making baby quilts. When I finally wanted to cut up the fabric, I realised the colours were quite different from the ordinary baby colours. Hm ... I knew that I wanted to cut up the panels and add square blocks to make up the centre of the quilt. It took me a while to find matching as well as contrasting blocks for this quilt. Hope my nephew Hei Hei will enjoy exploring the alphabets and the colours of the quilt. It's both educational and practical.

A knitted baby top

This knitted baby top is based on Debbie Bliss's pattern. Since the yarn is different from the pattern used, I had to to do some conversions to fit the tension of my inherited yarn. It also gives a different feeling. I do like the vintage cartoon button. It makes the top super cute.

A gift bag

This gift bag was made from an ordinary paper shopping bag with paper girl figure. I love her eye lashes that were made with brown feathery yarn.  You probably noticed that her back looks bigger than her front.  Well, it's a little design mistake. ;)  My daughter and I cut and glued this little girl together.  We had lots of fun decorating this bag.

Another cube

I made this cube for baby Wilson with the letters in his name on every face of the cube. I used polar fleece this time thinking it suits winter time better. Then, I found that the end result wasn't as square as it should be with the non-stretchable fabric. Yet it's a lot softer than the ordinary fabric.

A cube

I made this cube for a friend's baby Carson. This box is so easy to make. It took me less than 1 hour. I even tried my new quilting foot. I haven't made any quilt since I bought it. It's really useful to be used in any straight lines that requires exact measurement.

I started to love making this cube because it was so quick and you can put anything you like on them. There are 6 faces in this cube (actually, in every cube). Each face contains a letter from the word "Carson". I should have known that I can make the letters linked to spell Carson. Well, I didn't expected that ... so it only spelt "Cars" and the rest was not in the right order. My geometry has been wrapped up and packed into boxes that were buried underground.

Should have swapped the "C" with the "O". If you don't trust me, try it on a piece of paper. :)


I cut up my daughter's baby toys to rescue the rattle inside and plant it in this box. Hope Carson will like it.

An ice pack wrap

I made this wrap for my daughter over the long weekend. She often has a blood nose. An ice pack on the forehead will help but who is holding the ice pack for her? We made this wrap together. She designed the houses and we put the pieces together. I put velcro on the straps so it can fit her head when she grows bigger. It is very pretty and very practical.

Some cute appliques on singlets

I have longed to make baby gifts. Finally, I got this chance to make some baby gifts for a friend's son. I always wanted to try putting cute appliques on singlets. It should be quite easy to do. I drew some pattern on the fabric and embroidered the baby's name on them. I used some iron-on-interfacing to iron the appliques on the singlets. I tried to match stitch the appliques but the needle was too thick that it didn't work. So, I hand-stitched the applique with blanket stitch. The results were really good.

A book

This is my second book. My first book was purely based on a pre-printed fabric with all the instructions to make a children's book. I promised my sister-in-law to make her baby a book thinking that I could buy the same fabric again. Then, I realised that this type fabric was not around any more. I ended up designing and making my very own unique children book. I have read enough children books to make this one really rich in content. The book cover and the names on the first page are the scraps from the pre-printed fabric of my first book. I kind of kept it for a long time thinking that I would use it one day. Who would have thought that I would make a book?! It looks good that I need to get a patent or trademark for this. Again, I used the beautiful animal print that I also used in the play mat.

A change mat

I made a change mat on the weekend for baby Wilson. I bought about 40cm of the change mat material from Spotlight and cut it into half as the material is fairly long. Then, I made home-made binding to cover the sides. The cutest thing is that I embroidered the name "Wilson" with my very basic sewing machine. It works and looks good!!! I did cover the back of the embroidered piece as there's too much thread hanging on the other side. It's really easy piece of work. Hope the Wilson's Mum will like it.

A play mat also a toy bag

I saw this really good idea published in the Handmade magazine Vol 25 No 3. So, I made a very similar one for a friend's newborn baby. It's meant to be a playmat as well as a bag for storing toys. I bought this beautiful animal print that I can just cut it out to make this playmat both "educational" and beautiful.