An Alphabet Quilt Plan : :

Thank you all so much for the warm welcome you gave Penelope and for all your advice! I tried to respond here and there yesterday, but as you can imagine -- I'm busy! We are all so thrilled with her. Between your recommendations and what we've read, we have a good handle on everything so far. I think. I just can't quite figure Lily out? Most of the day Lily is sleeping, that's normal, but when she's not she's begun to meow, almost cry, when the puppy is in the same room as her, and she never lets Penelope get too close. BUT when we put Penelope in her kennel Lily cries a different cry, her usual cry when she's looking for me or I'm outside the door and she wants me to come back indoors. I know it's going to take some time, I really can't wait for them to have that first moment!

Last week when I shared my wips or ufos (which one of those is correct anyways?) I also had shared that I started something new -- an ABC quilt! So far I have just the basic sketch and math figured out, the fabrics pulled from my stash, and most of the cutting finished. I'm so ready to dive in, I just need the time! Want to see?

The fabrics I chose are a colorful mix in mostly primary colors including lots of sweet Aneela Hoey prints -- Little Apples and Sherbert Pips, a few from Lucie Summers' Summersville, several from Tasha Noel's new Little Red Riding Hood collection leftover from my House Pillow Tutorial, and some Riley Blake Basic Polka dots and Solids, as well as some other basics and scraps from my stash.





For this quilt design I'm making 30 - 10.5" blocks, one for each letter of the alphabet, plus four more -- one for each corner of my quilt, all in an improv log cabin block style, with my go-to quilt as you go method for quilting. I'm excited!!



I found this printable font site to print off my alphabet stencils. I chose the Uppercase Arial Stencil Letters and printed each letter out at 180%, the perfect size to fit inside the center white fabric square in each of my alphabet blocks.



The kids colored them with their new pencils while I did my cutting and started strip piecing for some easy patchwork.



I hope to share this quilt pattern as a tutorial eventually, if anyone is interested let me know? It's going to be a keepsake quilt, not a baby quilt. And my goal is to have it completely finished by my sister in law's baby shower the first weekend in June!! Yikes!

Wish me luck and thanks again for joining me here!  ♥,  Maureen