Baby Boy Schaffer Quilt Update

Please remember, all quilt blogging and photos now posted at: www.truenorthquilter.blogspot.com. This is the progress thus far...and all in under a month! Pretty good for me, and I didn't even get to work on it straight through as I had hoped. Truly wanted to have it finished for the arrival of the little critter, but sometimes you have to take things as they come. Dearest Edison Henry, I hope you enjoy looking at the colors and staying warm under it's folds.

Here are a number of photos of the progress...and the steps to get there.

I still have the four corners to fill (to the inside of the quilted border) with some sort of pattern to keep the batting stable (they are large triangles - about 10" on the longest side, and 8" along the right angle sides), and then two smaller triangular shapes to fill (along the center of the two longest sides).

The safety pins are my method of basting the backing/batting/top 'sandwich' together for the quilting process.

As an area is stitched, the basting pins are removed, and voila!

I went from stretching and pinning the quilt on Wednesday morning, to stenciling and quilting the majority of it over Wednesday evening and on through Saturday afternoon. Cut and applied the binding Saturday afternoon, then began to slipstitch it to the back the remainder of the evening and through Sunday morning while the laundry did it's thing in the dryer.

Once I got back home, I easily pieced two separate stencils together to come up with exactly what was called for in the largest areas. The two smaller spaces will be taken care of shortly. I will be able to accomplish the remaining quilting Monday evening, after a busy day of catch up.

More later!