I dusted off my sewing machine last fall and started playing around with some fabric again. Sophie had reminded me that her big sister had gotten a mama-made quilt and that she was hoping she might have one too, ahem. So I showed her a few quilt patterns that looked fun to me and she picked out the Sugar Bear quilt by Southern Charm Quilts. I’ve never made something with a whole lotta points that line up, so I figured I would make a practice quilt to get the hang of it…

I finally got the binding done this month and gifted the quilt to our friend’s new baby girl.

The original Sugar Bear quilt pattern is a bit of a sampler. It has nine blocks and the center squares are different patchwork patterns in each one. This baby version has just four blocks and I wanted it to come together quickly, so I stuck with solid squares for the center and used lots of scraps to give it a scrappy look. I feel more confident about sewing + trimming 144 of those half-rectangle-triangle points for Sophie’s quilt.

xo,

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