I made this crazy Minky quilt as a gift to one of my granddaughters, Autumn. I wanted it to match with her new bedding - but also be soft and cuddly! I kept it simple by rotary cutting across 6 different coordinating squares of quilt fabrics at the same time in different directions. That left me with six different geometric shapes. Then I reassembled them, alternating the fabric, and sewed the shapes back together forming six squares. Next I sewed the squares together. I didn't add any batting, since I wanted to make a soft, lightweight quilt, so I just backed it with soft, pink minky. I quilted along the pieced edges with lots of different embroidery stitches. I rolled the edge of the Minky, pinned it and sewed it down to create the binding. So simple!
Most of the quilt was fused and then quilted. The bunny is soft white flannel with a little batting - so the bunny would look 3-dimensional! We also added embellishments (Autumn helped with this!) and I hand embroidered to give the flowers more detail. This was the first quilt I used a wrap-around fused binding and it was so easy - I think I will use it more often. The simplicity of the binding made it easy since we were working together and wanted to finish it quickly. If you look close you will see some of Autumn's creative touches . . .
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