Baby girl quilt.

Making a soft machine embroidered quilt, can be tricky.  Especially if the embroidery is very dense.  One would need many layers of stabilizer, to prevent the embroidery from puckering around the edges of the design.  To avoid hours of removing lots of stabilizer from the back, it is much easier to use, a thin layer of bamboo batting and one layer of stabilizer on the back.  The stablizer can be removed relatively easy and the bamboo batting ensure the quilt is soft, without all the stabilizer.

Every piece of fabric is backed with a piece of bamboo batting for assembly of the quilt top. The top is assembled, the same way one would sew the quilt top normally.  Except for the strips of fabric, around each embroidered design.  These are pieced as, quilt as you go.

First draw a square block on the muslin around the design.  Next draw two lines, a quarter inch and a half an inch from the border of the block.  The middle line is the stitching line, the line on the outside, closest to the edge of the fabric, is the line, against which one line up the edge of the fabric strip.  Now sew a seam on the middle line, using a quarter inch foot.

Do both sides of the square first. Next, trim the excess muslin along these sides.

It will look like this.  Then fold the fabric strips towards the outside edge of the batting.

This helps to block the embroidery design and provides stability later on for the quilting process.

Then repeat the process for the top and the bottom of the block.

Pinning everything on a flat surface helps to keep it all in a straight line.

Sew these strips in place with a quarter inch seam allowance.

Once the top and bottom strips are sewn on, fold them back and trim the blocks to the size you want.

When the blocks are all done, the quilt is ready for the sashing strips to connect the blocks.

First connecting the blocks into strips of fabric.

The back of a strip of blocks.

The front of a strip of blocks.

 Then sew the sashings in between the rows, from the top to the bottom row.

This creates the center panel of the quilt.

Next add the side borders.

Then the top and bottom border strips, to complete the quilt top.

The back of top will look like this.

It is now ready to be sandwiched, the regular way, with batting in the middle and a backing on the back.  This very thin bamboo batting is too thin to quilt, without batting.

Now it can be quilted.  Once washed, the quilt will be soft, ready for a baby to enjoy.