Les Amis baby quilt and cloth book for Ezra!

We added a new nephew to our ever growing brood! So that means I got to sew another quilt. I am so happy with how this quilt turned out. My sister lived in France, and speaks French, so of course we used a few fabrics from the Les Amis collection by Patty Slongier. So darling. I used the Arrow Tail pattern found here. The pattern was easy to follow and although cutting took a while, the quilt actually sewed up pretty fast.

Front

 I even decided to branch out from my usual tied quilts, and machine quilted this one. I love the added dimension it gave the quilt.

Front detail

Back

Back detail -- notice the French!

Trees, all sorts of forest animals, rich blues and greens, and fluffy. Perfect for a baby boy. <3 (Notice I have to live vicariously through my sisters for baby boys) :)

Ready to mail!

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Now wait! Aren't you wondering what matching gift I came up with for the baby? Since my sister loved the French on the quilt ("Les Amis de la Foret"), I decided to make a little cloth book with French labels for sweet baby Ezra to read. I'm not going to lie -- I LOVE how it turned out. Probably one of my favorite matching gifts ever. Plus it was great practice: machine quilting (on curves, no less!), embroidery, applique, piecing, paper piecing (Butterfly pattern found here), and tiny piecing. It was time consuming, but so fun to make. Plus, as an engineer, I love finding a use for the small leftover scraps. I like to be as efficient as possible. :)