Baby String Quilt Jenean Morrison Free Spirit California Dreamin'

I made my first string quilt blocks a couple of weeks ago to help with a fundraiser quilt for cancer research.  I enjoyed making those blocks with the string technique so much I just had to make a whole quilt for myself.  I have tons of scraps so it was a project that required no extra spending!  Above are the blocks after I got them all completed for the baby/toddler size quilt.  I rearranged them several times until i got the placement that I wanted.  For the binding I used a Michael Miller ta dot print in red and pink.  After ironing my binding in half I sat down to roll it up and this little monster grabbed it from me...........

He likes to pretend that he's blind with those thick cataracts but he pulled a fast one on me this night!

I really love the binding choice........

Here's some closeups of the many fabrics that were used.  Jenean Morrison's Free Spirit, California Dreamin' was used the most.  I had two different prints in that line and used it throughout the quilt and for the border........

I sandwiched it together using free motion quilting.  I love that my new machine has the option to disconnect the foot pedal, push a button to turn it on and then take off a sewin'.  Makes for some fast free motion quilting !

Here's the finished quilt spread out on the floor.........

and draped over a chair..........

For the backing I used a vintage mattress pad.  Forgot to get a picture of that, but it makes for a nice, thick, warm quilt !  Scroll down to see who I have linked to this week.