Change of Plans

My nephew and his wife are expecting a new addition to their family--a baby boy (it still seems weird to me to know ahead of time what you're having!). I have been planning to make them a baby quilt--and there's a baby shower next Saturday--so it seemed like I should get on with it. I had bought a conversation print at Tennessee Quilts last month that I thought would work with a pattern I had seen in a magazine. However, when I measured the size of the designs, they were bigger than the ones called for in the pattern. So, I just made up a pattern as I went along. Instead of having the prints as the center of stars, I used a half log cabin type of motif, finishing off the block with a blue checkerboard. Some sashings, borders and corner 9 patches and I was done. A quick quilting job and totally machined binding and it was a wrap--in more ways than one. It was a fun little project and, hopefully, will receive a lot of use.