Pebbled Prairie Baby Quilt

I took a different approach to making my baby version of Pebbled Prairie.  I felt like all of my mock-ups were leaning towards the same colorway so I asked my sister-in-law to pick the colors for me.  The only guideline I gave her were the colors I wanted to avoid.

I think she did a great job!  These are not colors I ever would have picked and it gives the quilt top an entirely different feel.  Perhaps I should have used a darker gray color in the outer ring, but having two lighter colors in the rings gives it an interesting secondary pattern that I really like.  This version also shows off the traditional grid layout versus the more modern offset layout of the throw size that I shared yesterday.

I decided the quilt needed a scrappy back to finish it off properly, and both of these pieces were laying out in my sewing room.  The gray is from the back of my Lemon Blossom, which I am slowly quilting right now and the blue is the back of my original Bernie's Mittens quilt!  No, it wasn't still out from that project, I was using it in a different scrappy project recently.  The binding is from my Alison Glass Tessellation quilt, which I made in 2014 (predating the blog!).  The quilting is a light blue meander that I did myself.

I also wanted to share the other versions of the quilt that are included in the pattern here.  The first image is the throw size made with four colors, the second image is the large throw, and the third image is the queen. All of them are made the same way, it's just a change in how the colors are sorted and how the blocks are arranged in the end.

PDF and print copies of Pebbled Prairie are available now!  The pattern will be on sale until September 23rd, no coupon code needed, and there will be a quilt-along starting October 6th - stay tuned for more details!