Sewing for twins is the best! We have some dear friends who my husband and I got the pleasure of doing marriage counseling with. Blake officiated the wedding ceremony. When they decided to have a baby, God gave them two! I remember sitting on the couch and holding my 1 week old Ruby when we got the news.
When we found out the twins would be a boy and a girl, I immediately knew what I wanted to make them. Carseat Quilts! Have you ever worried to death over your tiny infant in that huge carseat being suffocated by all the blankets? Well, I have. I’m a worrier….This time, with Ruby I used an American Girl Doll blanket when I tucked her into her carseat. It was perfect! It fit right around her and tucked in just enough. Babies grow so fast but it’s nice to have just what they need when they need it. When they grow out of the blanket it can be a wall hanging or a doll blanket or a lovie…
BUY A CHARM PACK
I bought a really cute stack of 5″ charm squares at Missouri Star Quilts by Alexia Abegg for Cotton + Steele Fabrics called “Hatbox.” It’s on sale right now for $6.95! That makes for a VERY inexpensive quilt, especially if you use what you already have in your stash for the rest. In case you don’t know, a Charm Pack is 42; 5″ x 5″ precut squares of quilting coordinates. It’s just so easy. I used to love buying 2 yards of my favorite fabric but now I like having them all cut up for me! Less is more…
DIVIDE AND SEW
If you divide the charm stack you can make two carseat quilts. Hatbox came with two color ways…one with pinks and the other with greens, making it the perfect stack to use for the twins. The quilt measures approx 19″ x 24″ when your done. It’s nice to keep your quilts between 14″-19″ wide and 19″-24″ long for a carseat quilt.
Lay out your charms in 5 rows of 4…..Sew together, add very lightweight batting and backing or flannel and bind. I used Mountain Mist Cream Rose batting and Cloud 9 double gauze I had leftover from baby swaddles to finish these up. Both can be found at Joanne Stores.
QUILT & BIND
I chose to quilt in the ditch with decorative stitching. I thought the fabric had a vintage feel and that finishing it this way gave it an almost antique crazy quilt vibe.
If you need help with binding you can find all sorts of good tutorials out there in a google search. I have demonstrated using quilt backing to bind the quilt in both of my previous quilt tutorials here and here.
Here are some pictures…Bowen and Willow are ADORABLE and I’m thankful their parents were willing to share such sweet pictures!
Happy Sewing!
