Blue Ferris Wheel Baby Quilt

In Monday's post, I mentioned using my sewing machine's new walking foot ...

Here's the project I was making ... it's a baby quilt for a friend.

I mentioned this project in a post last week as well ... when the hand-sewn parts were still in progress ...

(For the record, I no longer like the idea of using all those straight pins in the pic above. Go with safety pins. Or that iron-on-sticky stuff. Just sayin'.)

Lots of free-motion quilting (not with the walking foot), in addition to the walking-foot job of stitching the English-Paper-Pieced ferris wheels through all the layers ...

The back of the quilt was made entirely from shirt fabrics (since they come from my favorite fabric designers, as you may know.)

I arranged the ferris wheels in a sort of random pattern ... they remind me of bubbles, somehow.

I'm pleased with how this one turned out ...

... and I got to give it to a friend at her baby shower this past week. 

Check back later this week for pictures of the teeny tiny dolly quilt I made for this new baby's big sister!