Hello Quilting Friends! It’s Melissa Corry from Happy Quilting here. Today, I am thrilled to be sharing this brand new Cute as a Button quilt as well as a Free PDF Pattern for it!!! This quilt features the Hello Spring by Sandy Gervais. The design adds simple piecing to basic patchwork for an absolutely adorable baby quilt!!!
Cute as a Button is made entirely of 5″ squares plus a few sashing strips!!! So just grab your favorite 5″ Stacker and with very minimal cutting, you are all set and ready to sew!!! And I just love the beautiful colors and happy prints of this Hello Spring line!!! All of the flowers, butterflies, and geo prints in happy spring colors just makes me smile. Just perfect for a new little wee one 😉
I originally designed Cute as a Button for my Charming Baby Quilts book. But ya know, design 30 quilts and a third of them go into the book. I just loved this design so much I didn’t want to see it fall by the wayside. So I have just been waiting for the right fabric to come along to make it up. You just need two 5″ Stackers and a Background fabric and this whips up in no time.
You really use up almost all of those 5″ stackers as well, so there is very little that gets added to your scrap piles. Which is great, because if yours are like mine, there is hardly any room to add 😉 The Cute as a Button quilt is Baby Size and finishes at 45″ x 45″. And as I mentioned, there is a free PDF Download of this pattern, so you can make your own!!! To get the FREE PDF Cute as a Button Pattern Download, just click to my blog and download it there 😉
When it came time to quilt mine I knew I wanted to keep them really soft. So I opted for a very loose design in a large scale. And from the cover photo, you can see I made 2 quilts. So for one, I quilted a simple meander and on the second a simple loop de loop.
As you can see, it gives lots of texture while still being super soft. I can’t wait for these to be gifted. So fun!!! This is such a great size to decorate a nursery with or to have lots of tummy time. Either way, they are certainly Cute as a Button!!!
And those are my Cute as a Button quilts!!! I hope you have enjoyed this post. Oh, and if you make your own Cute as a Button quilts, I would love to see them! You can share your quilts with me on social media using hashtags #happyquiltingwithmc and #rileyblakedesigns and tagging @happyquiltingmc or email me a picture at happyquiltingmelissa@gmail.com. I can’t wait to see your Cute as a Button quilts and I can’t wait to see, if like me, you can’t make just 1 🙂
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I hope you have a very Happy Quilting Day!!!