Monday, July 8, 2013

voile.

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Oh I'm in love.  It's official.  My first time stitching with voile and I don't want to stitch with anything else.  It's silky smooth and feels like butter, and I can't imagine wrapping baby in anything more soft or luxurious feeling.  I have no idea if using voile is a good idea or not for whipping up a few burp cloths (using chenille as the underside) with the left overs, but I'm doing it anyways, as baby girl can't have enough hand made goods made of this stuff.

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I picked up the voile fabric from Hawthorne Threads:  AMH Little Honey in berry, Valori Wells Shine in aqua, AMH Little Honey in gold and Joel Dewberry Tile Flourish in amber.  The flannel I picked up at Joann's on sale, I just love that grey bike print!  The pops of aqua and red are perfect.  I used the same self binding receiving blanket tutorial and backed these in flannel in the same way I made these flannel receiving blankets a few weeks back.

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I love that these aren't quite as heavy as the flannel on flannel versions, and that the snuggle quotient is through the roof.  I just grabbed this AMH voile fat eighth bundle from Westwood Acres to make baby girl a voile quilt, as I already know she can't have enough of this silky goodness in her life.

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I was a little nervous to start sewing with this stuff, as its quite slippery, but with many pins and using my walking foot, I had zero problems.  I can feel baby girl kicking away as I'm typing this, so I'm assuming that's her seal of approval!  Good taste even from inside the womb :-)

11 comments:

  1. Very pretty! This is going to be one well wrapped baby girl!

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  2. Awww, that's awesome that she's kicking!!!! And oh my, I can see why you have a voile obsession, it is such wonderful stuff. I can't wait to see your voile quilt!! I've got a bit of a voile collection going now myself!

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  3. Your baby is going to have the prettiest blankets on the block!

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  4. They are very pretty.... just want to feel them through the blog!!

    Susie

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  5. sounds nice :) and very beautiful fabric in baby girl's life to be.

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  6. I just got a bundle of voile in to make a quilt that I got in a fab online sale, I can hardly wait! Obviously baby girl has great taste just like her mum ;o)

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  7. Love the voile quilts! Congratulations on your upcoming addition. I have a couple questions about the quilts. I did go to the tutorial you linked to. My question is this - if you were to make a quilt larger than baby sized, would you use a batt? or just the backing? and...would you need to do some quilting to keep even those 2 layers from shifting?
    Thanks.

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  8. Voile, ahhh so soft! I love these, I'm sure baby will love them too!

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  9. The first time I used those voiles, I wished that every print everywhere would be available on that fabric! It is a dream.

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