As some of you know, I’m a little obsessed with giving gift “sets” for baby gifts. Generally the set will be a quilt and bibs, burps and a ball. But, this time it is a bear. And I actually saw the pattern for the bear first and then whipped up this quick quilt to go…
I love looking at quilting in new and fresh ways. Oftentimes “new and fresh” refers to looking at traditional and established methods and making them your own. I’ve been thinking a lot about designing whole cloth quilts. I’m a little hesitant in calling this a “whole cloth quilt” because most whole cloth quilts are such…
Oh I just love this. Very clean, fresh and I love the thread choice too. Excellent quilting.
seriously. i very rarely comment on blogs, this is INCREDIBLE.
Amazing!!! The design is so simple yet looks so AMAZING. Love the color choices too.
this is an utterly fabulous quilt! nice, nice work!
I’ve had herringbone on the brain too, but haven’t acted on it. This is incredible!
Love your blog, Latifah. It is so YOU!
Yes mjb, I find that restraint is one of the biggest design challenges but, when it is effectively utilized the result can be stunning! So glad you like it!
I love the bold solids here – I would’ve been tempted to use a print on one side, I think. The quilting is really beautiful.
LOVE. I love everything about this quilt, simply gorgeous!
I love your quilting aesthetic and just realized that this was another one of your quilts. To me modern means beautiful in simplicity, so I think calling this quilt a modern whole cloth is right on the money. You seem to know how to make just the right choices of colors, fabrics, thread, and design.
By the way, the pattern in the bricks behind your quilt would make a great quilt design too.
Love this! The green in the binding looks like it’s from Basic Grey’s ‘Origins’ line.
I favorited this on Flickr and didn’t even realized it was you! I should have known…you always make my favorite quilts 
Awesome work, as usual.
Beautiful quilting – it really is a nice way to make a thicker stitch. Great job!!
i have been dreaming of herringbone so much lately! this is so, so lovely. great job!
Stunning. Absolutely stunning. I love the variegated thread, too! What a nice touch. 
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I love it so much Latifah! It looks so cute in the room and I can’t wait for the baby to use it!
Wow! I came here from flickr, because I love this quilt, and the close-ups in this blog are making me a little faint! That thread is luscious. I think I have to go to the quilt store…
Beautiful job!
I love this quilt so much it’s making me feel a little woozy. Now I NEED to make a modern whole cloth quilt.
like everything else you make, this is beautiful and interesting. i enjoyed just reading this post, too! i guess i did a “whole cloth” (or plain – since i wouldn’t call it an intricate work of art) quilt, but i had no idea that’s what i was doing! it was using star wars sheets, but still.
everything combined to make a gorgeous quilt. I love whole cloth quilts and have been daydreaming about one since I saw a very lofty one in cream at a eco-store. if I can find the perfect batting I’m going for it with some shot cotton.
Latifah, this quilt is so truly amazing! Thanks for the education on whole cloth quilts, I’d never heard the term before. Yours is just stunning. I love that stitch you used on your machine, it looks practically hand quilted! That variegated thread looks just amazing – I haven’t tried it before, but now I definitely want to!! I love the pieced binding, too. Stellar job, as always!
This is an amazing quilt! I love the idea of a modern whole cloth quilt. I love the thread you chose and that it contrasts on the front and blends on the back – the best of both worlds!
My Bold quilt isn’t whole cloth, but it has minimal piecing and the color and the quilting are the stars.
I tried to insert a link here, but am not sure if it will work in a blog comment. If not and you’d like to see my Bold quilt, check out my eschhousequilts photostream on Flickr.
This must be the year of the baby! This is the fourth baby born in my office this year and we only have about 20 people! And, we still have one to go! Not to even start counting my friends. . . . But, I’m not complaining. More babies mean more fun baby gifts to…
A friend just forwarded me your site. Love it. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
I love your little bibs!!! Do you have a pattern for them that I can use?? Gorgeous fabric too. I’m so impressed!
Your quilt labels are very cool too!
I love, love, love your JITB trapezoid quilt! Mad crushing!!
I love all of these baby gifts, I need to make two baby shower gifts at thhe moment, Do you sell patterns for these?
Everything is beautiful and flawless! You are very clever and resourceful. I wish you many beautiful and new inspiration! You are great! Blanka.
Eli loves his beautiful quilt. Thank you so much!
I love your work. It is very fresh and innovative. Great Job!
I’m impressed that you go to the extra effort to make the onesie, burp cloth, etc! I figure a quilt is enough of a gift and stop there – not to mention your cute packaging in the basket.
great quilt!! I used the giraffe print in a quilt recently and struggled with coordinating fabrics. Your choices are wonderful.
That’s such a cool design! And the matching card is too smart!
I love it! The colors and design are perfect, as well as your other little gifts! A I wouldn’t change a thing about your wrapping-so sweet!
What a great quilt – and all the other gifts too! Lucky baby!
So bright and cheerful! I just love the traps!! What a brilliant baby gift!
Beautiful–all of it! The white binding is absolutely perfect.
It looks great! You are very talented. I really like the pattern and how your fabrics work together.
Does anyone else have this problem? You make a quilt as a gift for a friend or family member and then fall in love with it SO much that it is almost painful to give away? Well, this was my experience with the Huckleberry Modern Baby Quilt. Luckily I was strong and was able to…
My neice recently had boy/girl twins. She saw your Huckleberry – blue circle quilt and wanted it for a boy baby quilt. At that point all I had to go on was your picture. It was a challenge to work out the pattern, simple as it is. My version was a makeshift “compass” and freezer paper to get the perfect patchwork circle center. I varied the design a bit by changing the borders. I have to admit I love the outcome. I hoped she would like it because I did! But I decided if she didn’t I would happily keep it! No chance. She loves it. I am in the process of handquilting it now. Oh and just by coincidence, I call it Jack’s quilt because,I am making it for her baby Jack.
Please let me know if someone can make this beautiful quilt I saw on PINTREST, with the beach ball, bibs, burp cloths the one with the circle and beautiful blue color. I’d like to buy this set for a baby gift for my best friend who just became a 1st time Grandma!
Please email me back. Can the baby boys’ name be embroidered on the corner, “Ryan Timothy” ???
Love to hear from you,
Jennifer Damato, Long Island, NY
I love your quilt, and the whole package! You have inspired me. My daughter just announced she is pregnant, and her husband is an engineer. I was looking for something he would love also, and I think your site will give me plenty of ideas. Can you tell me if you used a pattern for the bib and burp cloth? I just love those.
Robyn
Wow. Oh wow. This is so cool on so many different levels. I love the great big circle! You have Really inspired me!
[...] yes for those of you that might ask, this is sort of an iteration of the Huckleberry Quilt. The big circle is just cut in [...]
Can I be your friend? LOL….
What an amazing gift!!!! Extremely generous of you…..I would have stopped at the quilt, but time is my enemy.
Oh, it’s so amazing. I looove all of it. It’s a wonderful gift.
LOVE!
That is just so beautiful, fantasic, love the ball idea to match the quilt and everything else!!
Seriously awesome quilt. I would love to try one like this but I wouldn’t have the first clue how. If you ever do want to do tutorials…let us know!! Your stuff is amazing! (and modern).
This quilt is amazing! Please, please, please do a tutorial – at least tell me how big it is – it is really fabulous!
Wow. I so love this quilt and all the wonderful goodies. I love the colors but especially the outer circular quilting. Amazing.
I am in love with this whole set! Beautiful job! If you ever have the urge to post a tutorial (for this or any of your other pieces), I would happily jump on that train.
What a beautiful quilt and a fabulous keepsake gift! I should say gifts! All of them are wonderful.
Love the topstitching! Fierce! Do you do your own topstitching? If so, what kind of machine do you use?
Your baby quilt is wonderful. I like the back as much as the front. The bib, the ball, the card, just too sweet.
Wowsers! I love this fabric, the quilt, the ball, the card, everything!!! Amazing.
WOW! What an amazing gift and an outstanding design! Superb!
I have loved this from the moment I saw it. Your love and time and heart will go with the quilt to the baby and the mama and daddy, and all will be blessed for many, many years.
No surprise, you’ve inspired many…including me, but Jack will be in high school before I get the courage to try something like this! It’s awesome.
Adorable! I need to make one right now! I mean, like, immediately! Oh, you are so so creative. I wish Missouri were closer to your guild! I’m glad to see what you’ve been up to.
Oh wow – that is an incredible set! I noticed the quilt on Flickr – I love how the concentric circles look like a Japanese rock garden.
Wait – you used the six minute circle method on this?!
I mean, I LOVE this quilt and need to make one. But that’s an awful big circle!
I’m in awe!
The quilt is stunning. The entire gift? What a lucky family!!!
REALLY stinkin’ gorgeous baby gift!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE all the fabulous little touches you added! That is one lucky baby & momma to receive that basket! 
L- I LOVE IT! This is one of my favorites of your quilts as well. And the whole baby gift set turned out awesome. Loved the bib…
Wow! This is awesome! I love the design and the quilting is amazing!
I too, suffer from separation anxiety–perhaps there is a support group somewhere? If at least there are visitations it may help to assuage the sorrow of such sweet partings.( Hey I’m a chemist forgive me my poor mangled quotations.) Love the whole ensemble Latifah.
This is stunning. I love your designs – such a great use of colour, pattern, and calm space. I always love it when I see on my google reader that your blog has another post – always wondering what you have up your sleeeve next. Super!
The quilt is adorable! I love everything about it..the colors, the fabrics,and the quilting. I love that you added things that would have meaning to the parents. THEN..you add the darling burp cloths(let’s hope Jack is not a spitter?)and ball. TOO cute!
I’d have trouble letting these go too.
VERY well done!
Oh my goodness! I adore this quilt! It is amazing! That is one lucky baby!
Wow, it is gorgeous. I love the design and I LOVE the colorful fabrics. You have a wonderful eye for modern design and colors.
Amazing quilt and baby gift set! You definitely needed strength to give those cute things away!
WHAAAT? this quilt is by far the best i have ever seen. the design , the colors just everything…I am in awe over this and I would not have been able to give it away either… SNiff Sniff!
You are not alone! I often love the quilts so much I don’t want to give them away. There was one in particular that I kept dragging around the house and snuggling with for a few days before giving it away!
I simply adore your work, it consistently and constantly blows me away. Huckleberry is no different, I am awestruck, wow!!
I think this is one of my favorites of your baby quilts!! Love love love it!
this is such an unbelievably incredible gift.
I am so in awe!
Thanks for asking the question about how it was pieced. I was wondering if that was the method you used. Great finish, I can see how it was hard to give away!
This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the link on how to sew the circles – I was really curious!
You put so much of yourself in this quilt. That’s probably part of the reason it is so tough to part with. That and its incredible!
amazing. really. from the quilt, to the so-called “wonky” ball, to the packaging – it’s perfect!
I’m drooling.
I don’t know how you found the strength. I don’t blame you, it’s all gorgeous.
by Latifah
That quilt is beautiful! I just bought a fat quarter pack of Michael Miller gray and blue….this will be a perfect quilt for me to make!
Haha! I’ll try to make this explanation quick Alison. My sole motivation for quilting (or any sewing) is to see the creative visions in my head come to life. Sewing a pattern is boring to me. And, unless it is something that I REALLY want to see made or unless I am creative with the changes I make to patterns to make them “my own:, I generally don’t like the process of just sewing from a pattern. Believe me, “pains” is not an understatement here. Just one of my quirks that I have come to embrace! Haha!
It pains you to use patterns?!!! I think I get what you mean, but tell me more….
Your baby gifts must be quite coveted! You are so ingenious!
Serious cute you are, Harold.
I absolutely love the baby quilt and of course Harold is adorable too. I love the black binding with the white…so sharp!!!!!
I’m not sure which I love better! Beautiful quilt & truly huggable Harold!