Variegated Squares : A baby quilt for our new granddaughter

Hi, I am happy to share a completed quilt that I made for our new granddaughter. I always make larger than normal baby sized quilts as I usually do not get the quilts to the new recipients while they still are little babies. I managed  to get this quilt made and finished by the time she was a week old.

This is Variegated Squares by Tiffany Horn of Village Bound Quilts. The story that Tiffany tells behind how she came up with how this quilt is made seemed very fitting for our Daughter inlaw who is my website designer. This quilt uses 4 main colors or print combinations and Tiffany used Algebra permutations to figure out how many different block combinations using only 3 of the 4 colors she could create and not have any duplications.

This funny Alegbra meme was very fitting up until I made this quilt.

These were my fabric choices and my first time making a quilt in entirety with Kona Cotton Solids.  (Kona White, Bluegrass, Pool, Coral and Punch in order)

These two floral fabrics are what my DIL chose to decorate the baby’s room in. I just had a photo on my phone when purchasing the matching Kona colors from JoAnn’s. She purchased fabrics and items made from them  off Etsy. I think they both are fabrics that could be found sold on Spoonflower.

Tiffany includes a coloring page for making the quilt and it was essential in keeping it going together smoothly.

I ended up cutting my page into individual blocks and arranging all cut fabric  strips in order and clipping the drawn square to them with a Wonder Clip. I stacked all the block piles in order and used a foil pan to hold them while I worked on them.

Of course my trusty Quilt Helper and Inspector Smokey had to find my foil Lasagna pan that I had my fabric pieces in.

Here is all my  strips cut and the start of my block assembly line.

More block assembly and always trying  to keep the clips on the blocks so I always know where to place them.

All variegated blocks completed and  needing white sashing strips.

This is the completed flimsy. I chose to do an allover gridded quilting like Tiffany shows using on her quilts.

Here is another shot of the completed Variegated Squares quilt. I used leftover strips in all colors to make a matching binding. I carefully laid them all out in order to match the  coordinating blocks and then discovered that  I attached the two long sides on the opposite sides. I decided to leave it as is. I really enjoyed making this quilt and have thoughts of making it larger than a twin size with maybe 6 color choices instead of 4. We did the Alegbra all ready and it could give you upwards of 720 block combinations. Please check out Village Bound Quilts for this fun pattern.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley