Baby Bear Paw Finished!

Two quilt finishes in one week!  Goodness gracious me!



The idea behind this quilt was to modernise the traditional bear paw block for a class I'll be teaching next term.  You can read more info about it here.



This is the 'baby' size (approx. 55" x 55"), but the pattern will also have the option of upsizing to a Mama Bear Paw Quilt.

I used a fq bundle of Savannah Bop which I won at FQ Retreat last year. The guts of 6 fqs went into the front, and the rest went into the back and scrappy binding.



For speed I quilted diagonally through the blocks,though there are many quilting options open to this pattern.  As with most of what I teach, when the pattern gets written up it will be available in my Etsy shop.

Well, I'm almost caught up with myself now! I will soon need to turn my attention to some birthday makes, but with my boiler broken down again, I just want to snuggle up in front of the fire!

Hope you are all keeping warm!

Baby Bear Paw Quilt

I've been working on my class samples for next term's programme.

One of them is a baby quilt based around the traditional Bear's Paw block.



I put 4 Bear's Paw blocks together to make one large block, and then 4 of these giant blocks make up the baby quilt:



At the moment it is coming out at 49" x 49", but I'm debating whether to put a skinny border on it.

I've used the Savannah Bop fqs I won at FQ Retreat last year.  I think the wee animals on the prints are so cute!



I got this quilt top made in the equivalent of 1 day, thanks mainly to the wonderful Sizzix 4.5" hst die!



It's sooooooo wonderful not to have to spend hours trimming hsts!!

And if folks don't want to make a Baby Bear Paw quilt, they can upsize to a Mama Bear Paw!



So now I need to make up my mind about a border and get it basted, quilted and bound before moving on to the next class sample!

Have a great Thursday!