Baby Comforter in Progress

About two weeks ago, I got a baby shower invitation in the mail. The mom-to-be is expecting a girl, and her preferred colors are "soft green, lavender and turquoise." Since we are in trying financial circumstances right now, HOMEMADE was the way to go. So in addition to several pairs of knitted baby booties in colors that will hopefully go with the colors on the list, I decided to also make a small baby comforter in similar colors, since that will go faster, being tied instead of quilted.

Night before last, after spending quite awhile working on the knitted booties, I pulled several material choices from the stash. A couple more of these got weeded out, ending with six material patterns.



A stack of the cut squares, six different colors/patterns.



The cut-out squares.





That evening, I also started sewing the blocks together into strips, and the strips together. Got a couple done before bedtime.

Then the next morning (yesterday), I was back at it.



M & M's always help. :) You can see these replaced the three pieces of taffy in the apple bowl in the previous picture, that I ate.



Yesterday evening, the finished top out on the clothesline.



Closeup.



Next steps: Cut backing, cut batting, layer everything, pin together, tie, cut binding, sew binding on, tack binding down. Plus sewing the seams on all the booties. I CAN DO THIS! A week from today is the shower. :)