This is one of those projects that was satisfying to me, if to no one else. I saw a quilt on Pinterest that had orange fabrics against a gray color, and I loved the combination. I had collected a bunch of orange batiks and then I somehow got some clay colored linen, and boom! Making the squares was easy; laying out the squares was tricky, especially when I decided to add a row to the side and the bottom. I found a great batik fabric to use for the binding with all different orange colors in it. The back is a pale peach fleece. It's big, too -- 54" x 72". I might keep this one. This is a baby blanket made from a charm pack of had-to-have fabric, Garden Life by Tilda. The solids were charms from Connecting Threads. I love, love, love the Tilda fabrics. I did find it a bit challenging to come up with good backing and binding fabrics. I used a soft fuzzy fleece in cream for the backing. I had considered using pink but didn't want it to be too girly (like it was girly enough, all florals and soft bright colors). With the binding, not one color I considered went well with everything. The green didn't work with the mint, the blue didn't go with the turquoise, etc. Finally I went with gold, which worked well enough with the front and the back. Next time I will think ahead about binding and backing before jumping in and making the quilt top. Sure I will.
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