Noah’s puff quilt part 2

The finishing of Noah’s puff quilt was like a marathon.  On Wednesday I finished all of my puffs.  I laid them out in a pattern that I thought was pretty :)  Then Friday I had to get it all done for the Saturday shower.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute :)  Hey I moved… I have good excuses :)

I first sewed all of the puffs into rows, and then all of the rows together.  All of the puffiness made it hard to sew… so I did a lot of squishing :)

After I got all of the puffs together (the wee hours of the morning) I had a little mini party and showed the boys that were a movie.  I am sure that they were uber interested in the top of the baby blanket I was making…. but they appeased me with oooohs and awwwws. 

I layered the back fabric, the batting, and the top with basting spray between each layer to keep it from sliding around.

Then pinned on the binding.  I decided to buy binding because of my little time dilemma.  I found this satin binding and decided the pricy $7 price tag was worth it when I found it on Thursday night. While I was pinning it on at 2am, I knew I had made the right decision.

At 3am…. this was the blurry eyed result.  FINISHED! and cute too if I do say so myself.  I decided at that point that I would quilt the layers together in the morning.  I woke up at 8:30 and decided to just put a few stitches at each of the corners of the puffs.  At 10am… I was finally finished.  I got dressed super quick, “wrapped” the gift and dashed off to the 11am shower.  But not before snapping a few poorly light, slightly blurry photos with my iphone.

I would definitely make one again (because they are so cute and cozy), but definitely only for my own kids… or perhaps for another niece or nephew… but that is it :)