Confession: While I have been extremely slack in the blogging department lately, my crafting and sewing and stashing have still been going strong. This whole working full time with three kids and trying to balance life with crafts and chores and family has been taking up pretty much all of my blogging time. But, if you happen to follow me on Instagram, you know I’m still crafting. I just don’t have as long to document it. 
But I’ve been thinking lately that there are certain projects that I’ve completed that I really want to document properly, so I’m going back over the past few months and taking the time.
First up is my Baby Fancy Fox Quilt that I made for a friend over our winter months. If you haven’t tried out this pattern by Eliabeth Hartman, you really need to. 

It’s downright addictive.

I fell in love at first fox. I like how the pattern has different sizes of quilts and the cutting instructions allow for strips or pieces of scraps.
And because I’m me, I went scrappy in one of my favorite color schemes – aqua, pink and red. This color scheme just never gets old.

I like to cut out all of my pieces at once and then chain piece. For this quilt I added a row to the side and bottom to make the quilt slightly bigger for longer use by the baby.

 

I loved watching my little skulk of foxes grow. (Yes, I had to google that.)

It was absolutely necessary to add at least one fox with glasses. This was my first time doing this type of applique. I’m amazed that it turned out.

In typical me style, I left most of the project till the last minute because apparently that’s what we do to build up momentum.

I used my current absolute favorite all over free motion technique of swirls and hooks and I am pretty sure this pattern will keep reappearing in future quilts. It’s fast, it’s flowy and its forgiving of errors.
The texture it gives is just amazing.

Since this was a gift and I fell so hard for for the pattern, I’m pretty sure I still have one or two fox quilts for in my near future.

Thanks for reading along!
Till the next time…

xo
Jade

Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it Friday (in this case my finish is primarily that I BLOGGED!!)

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