A new baby at church is an excuse to use my new book Handmade Beginnings: 24 Projects to Welcome Baby by Anna Maria Horner. I tried out the Patchwork Sleeping Bag using some scraps I had from making Kaitlyn's Basket of Love quilt. Hmm. Which I handquilted and have forgotten to blog! That gives me an idea. This was a fun project. If I had had larger pieces of fabric, strip piecing would have make the project so much quicker! However, I had to cut each square individually with my tiny rotary cutter, (the other had been borrowed by a friend). The results were a bit "Monet-ish" which I like to call any project where my points don't exactly match up in every corner. If you squint your eyes ... everything blends and looks perfect ... just like a Monet!
Little did I know I would become an impressionistic quilter:) Is there such a term? There should be -- if not, I will be the first!
The sleepsack is lined with a cozy rosebud flannel for those crisp summer nights. (Looks like the northwest is having a cooler summer so far... so the flannel works!)
Sometimes I like to see the inside of a book before I purchase it. Here is the Patchwork Sleepsack project page for you to see. Anna Maria Horner's instructions are fairly easy to read for the beginner, and anyone can have fun putting this project together. The book has great ideas for gifts for Mom, siblings and baby -- even dad. I plan to use a lot of the patterns in here -- so it has my hearty recommendation to every would-be crafter who likes to take something homemade to welcome a baby to the world. 
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