Row-by-Row Baby Quilt & Knit Baby Hat

A friend of my daughter's is due to have a baby girl in late February. I asked my daughter if anyone in her family made quilts or was a knitter and she said no. So I offered to make a quilt or knit a sweater. Lara wanted a quilt. My daughter told me Lara loves pinks and purples and Kelly green, so I decided to make a scrappy row quilt for her. I backed the quilt in flannel so it's soft. I only used scraps for the quilt top. This is the first row quilt I have ever made. I decided on the blocks that I wanted to use and made up the quilt layout.

I took advantage of the dusting of snow we got on New Year's Day to photograph this quilt outside.

I just made up the quilt design  by using different quilt blocks for each row. I wanted to repeat the tulip block rows because that was my favorite block. The other blocks are 2 different pinwheel blocks, a snowball block, a heart block, friendship star and butterfly block.  

I quilted it in an all over meander using a pastel variegated thread.

The back of the quilt is flannel fabric in a pink floral print.

I knit this swirl knit hat for  Lara's baby. It's fuchsia, purple, green and blue yarn. It looks more purple in person because purple doesn't photograph very well.

This is the top view looking down on the hat. You can see the swirl radiating out. The pattern is free on Ravelry . It comes in several sizes from baby to adult.

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