My cousin’s youngest daughter had a Baby boy back in March. Brooks Tyler arrived on the scene a week early, and is already 3 months old! Look at those cheeks!

Of course, I had to make him a Quilt.

I struggled with deciding on a color scheme at first. I was planning to try and match her nursery colors — turquoise and dark gray — but when I saw one of the first photos of him, he was dressed in a woodland creatures onesie, and I knew right then that’s what I would go with.

So I chose the aqua-ish prints from a current line that I forgot to write down the name of, so I can’t tell you what it is. (I got it at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop in Brunswick, Missouri, however, and it wasn’t that long ago, so they may still have some of it left, if you really need some!)

I used my Baby, Baby! pattern to make the quilt.

I originally designed the Baby, Baby! pattern to make a quilt for Brooks’ cousin, Hunter, when she was born, so it was fitting that they both have similar quilts.

Also, it’s a fast finish, and it shows off the prints nicely, and it can be personalized with the baby’s name. I had to be a bit more careful with this one, since my fabrics were directional, which I hadn’t planned on when I started, but it all worked out. I made the smaller version, with no borders. It finished at 36″ x 46″.

I chose a brown Andover Dimples Basic for the appliqué letters and the binding.

I backed it with one of the prints from the same line:

The quilting is a simple all-over meander, except I quilted around the letters of the name and not over the tops of them. Then I pre-washed it so it would be all soft and snuggly!

Here are all the details . . .

Quilt for baby Brooks:

Finished size: 36″ x 46″
Pattern: Baby, Baby! by me (available in print or PDF)
Fabrics for top: Not sure, but it’s a woodland creatures line I got at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop, plus some Andover Dimples basic in dark brown for the appliqué letters and the binding.*
Backing: One of the prints from the line
Batting: Quilter’s Dream Cotton Select Natural
Thread: Superior OMNI #3021 Ash Gray
Quilting: All-over meander by me on my Nolting 24 Pro

*If I find out what the name of the fabric line is, I’ll come back and update this.