Ice Cream Cones, Bunny Girls, and a Few Scraps

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!  How was your week?

I should be cleaning and shopping to get ready for the family Christmas party (which I love), but there are baby quilts to quilt.  I'll get back to the cleaning and shopping later.

It's too cold for ice cream (or is it?) but never too cold for an ice cream cone quilt!  

This one got quilted and bound yesterday, due to an unexpected free morning.  It's a Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt, baby-sized and ready to donate to Project Linus.  I made the blocks all year, from pink with sprinkles in January to lime green for October.

It took me a long time to decide how to set these rectangular blocks, and even more time to figure out how to quilt them.  I didn't find an ice cream print that I liked for the sashing, so I used a print with little donuts covered with colorful icing.  (The theme here is yummy stuff I should not eat much of.)  For quilting, I outlined the blocks and stitched in the ditch in the sashing seams.

Check out the back!  Here's why I chose it:

I think the back looks like these sprinkles!  Around here these long ones are called jimmies, I have no idea why.  Sprinkles are definitely good on ice cream, but we'll be using them tomorrow when my oldest daughter and her kids come over to make Christmas cookies. Can't wait!

There is another ice cream cone quilt coming (had to use all the blocks, of course!) but it isn't quilted yet.  Instead, I finished this one.

This is definitely a girl quilt!  More friendship stars, plus bunny girls in lovely dresses in the top and bottom borders.

I've had this fabric for a while in my panels box.  I bought it at a flea market as a large remnant.  You may recognize it as Daisy Kingdom fabric.  It was originally designed to be made into a very fancy dress for a little girl, with the bunnies as a border near the hem.  The dresses were very popular in the 1980s and 1990s.  I never managed to make any for my daughters, but I'm absolutely sure my oldest wouldn't have worn one anyway.

The fabric between the star blocks would have been the body of the dress.  There are little butterflies and bees in the print.  The striped border was also part of the remnant.

Pink backing, and purple binding--totally girly!

Baby Buddy doesn't care if it's a girl quilt!  He still has fun running his trains on it.  (Don't worry, I always wash the quilts before I donate them.)

My little buddies are very happy to see each other at the end of the school day.  Baby Buddy comes running, attacks his brother, and they end up on the floor.  I hope they'll always be good friends.

 That's the quilts for this week.  What about the scraps?

I'm still working on the borders for the red string quilt.  This morning as usual, after the basic chores were done I headed upstairs to the sewing room with a cup of tea.  My cup this morning is one of several birthday presents from my awesome Mom!  The lettering says When Life Gives You Scraps, Make Quilts.  Good advice!  Thanks, Mom!

Have a good week, everyone.  And to all who celebrate, have a very Merry Christmas!

Check out these linky parties for inspiration!

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at Super Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap