A friend and neighbor recently had her first girl (after two rough and rowdy boys!), and since she is an admirer of all things handmade, I decided she needed a girly quilt for baby Brooke. I went with a simple strip quilt in fun bright fabrics from my stash and I tried a couple of new techniques. I've always loved the look of rounded corners, but I never wanted to mess with making bias binding. I bit the bullet and tried it, and it wasn't that bad! I used this tutorial from Jaybird Quilts for making continuous bias binding. The only issue I had was that when I sewed the tube together, my lines were all off by 1/4", even though I matched them up perfectly. There wasn't any mentioning of offsetting the lines to account for the seam allowance when you pin the fabric together, but it must be something along those lines. I'm guessing I just did something wrong, but I was able to fudge it when I cut the binding and it all worked out just fine. I'm excited to handstitch the binding and get this one delivered!
Finished measurements are 34" x 32".
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