For the longest time I haven’t had the urge to sew. I go into fits of inspiration and of nothingness, where I just don’t have any desire whatsoever to go to my machine and see what comes out.

But luckily that seems to have changed for the time being.

Baby quilts! I love making them, mostly because they are pretty small in the quilting world and can be as frilly or boy-ish as you want them. But I think I love them mostly because they are small and don’t take long.

I have a short attention span. AKA “shiny ball” syndrome. As in “my train of thought is ver….ooh shiny ball!” So a smaller project really is the best thing for me.

I’ve done this pattern once before in the same fabrics, but it’s definitely not the same quilt as before. The first time I made this was for a friend when she told me she was pregnant, I got the idea in my head that she was going to have a little boy as soon as she hung up the phone, and a day later I had a quilt. And I was right about the boy by the way.

Good grief it feels good to be back in the swing of things.