Twin Quilts for twin girls

The twin baby quilts that I was working on last week for my soon-to-arrive twin nieces were finished and gifted to the mom-to-be over the weekend. What a fun challenge to come up with baby quilts that were a matched pair, but not identical—just like their future little owners.

I found out at the baby shower that they're leaning toward Rose as a name for one of the babies, so it's a happy coincidence that I pieced one of these quilts in rosy pinks. In fact, this quilt features one of my recent favorite Kona colors, Pomegranate.

And the other quilt is all in "my" colors—aqua and lime green and teal. I thought it would be a nice touch to do one of the quilts in warm colors and the other in cool colors.

The blocks in both quilts are paper-pieced blocks from Vintage Quilt Revival (of course!). The pink quilt has the Geometric Star block (I guess I'm kind of addicted to doing this block in solids, since I used it in this quilt as well). The pink quilt got straight vertical-line quilting.

The teal quilt uses the Exploding Star block, which has great dimensionality. I decided on angled straight-line quilting for that one. In case you're curious how I do my quilting, in this case I marked the center quilting line with painter's tape, using the 45-degree angle in the block and my longest ruler to guide me. I sewed right next to the painter's tape for that first quilting line, then removed the tape and quilted outward on either side from there, lining up the previous line of stitches with the side of my walking foot. This kind of narrowly-spaced straight line quilting can take a while, but it's so worth it!

I have to admit, the back on the teal quilt is a lot more fun. Yep, wood grain again—you know how I love my wood grains! This one is from Joel Dewberry's True Colors collection from Free Spirit, supplemented by a Laura Gunn Painter's Canvas print. Sadly, I didn't have any good matching rosy pink prints for the back of the pink quilt, so that one got an Architectures Crosshatch instead.

And the best part of all: My sweet sister-in-law told me after she opened them, "I was hoping I would get a quilt from you! I didn't even register for any blankets because I wanted a quilt!" I can't think of a better compliment from a recipient of one of my quilts. 😊 Can't wait to meet these baby girls, and I hope everybody (mom and babies) enjoys their quilts!