the tiny hummingbird

dot dot dash III | a quilt for Luna's sister

2026-01-06T10:12:00.000-05:00

Funny story about this quilt - I made it for a friend who is having her second baby and chose fabrics that I've used in quilts that now belong to that baby's cousins. I like to sneak little references to other family members or friends in when I can. I don't know if the owners will ever notice but if they do I think it's a nice surprise. I used the hands/hearts/botanical print in her cousin Iris's quilt, the peaches in her cousin Olivia's quilt, and the dark floral print on the back in her cousin Clara's quilt. I finished the quilt, photographed it, and started to package it to mail it to Tennessee. As I was sliding the quilt into the mailer bag I was struck by the sudden realization/memory that the baby about to be born is not a girl. I had made a quilt for a baby girl but this baby is a boy! Lucky for me, I have another friend due with a baby girl soon, and these two expectant moms are friends so the fabrics still make sense as all the babies listed above will be friendly with this baby too. I know that's not important, but I don't like to gift quilts that I don't think the mom will like. Thankfully, this quilt is still a good fit for this family!

patchwork pop | a quilt for Kieran

2025-11-12T14:05:00.002-05:00

My friend Jess has commissioned me to make quilts for her friends at least three times now and I always appreciate her trust in my abilities! For this one she asked for apples, clapper boards (possibly the weirdest thing I've ever been asked to include in a quilt), and for the baby's name to be highlighted in big letters. I hope this is what she had in mind! I love the patchwork blocks with sashing... I tend to stay away from sashing unless a pattern tells me to use it but it's almost always the right move. And I love the button down shirt fabric on the back! I think it's an old cotton + steel print but I'm not sure. Many thanks to Finn for being my quilt holder, especially on such a windy day. He's been helping me out since he could stand!

pinwheelpalooza | a quilt for Vera

2025-07-24T16:28:00.001-04:00

I lived in the same dorm as Kristin my freshman year of College at URI and eighteen years later she asked me to make a quilt for her son Silas. Three years after that I found myself making a quilt for her daughter Vera! Kristin wanted something classic that Vera would like now and also as she grows through the years. She sent me a photo of the rug in Vera's room and I tried to pull all the colors from that design. We decided on a offset pinwheel pattern with creamy white solid sashing and borders to keep the quilt more subdued. And because I know Vera loves cats and unicorns and other cute things I made sure to include lots of fun little surprise fussy cuts all over! I think the quilt fits in quite nicely with the rest of the decor in Vera's room and hope she enjoys it for years to come.

L-O-V-E you too | a quilt for Iris

2025-07-24T14:03:00.000-04:00

My friends Emily and Steve were expecting their second baby close to my birthday and I was realllly hoping for a birthday twin but I didn't expect her to actually be born on May 24. Surprise! She was! So Iris is my new favorite baby and I think we'll share a special bond forever. It helps that I think her quilt is one of the best quilts I've made in a long time so we've gotten off to a fabulous start!

dot dot dash II | a quilt for Ava Margaret

2025-05-20T12:12:00.008-04:00

It's always nice when someone to whom I've given quilts wants me to make a quilt for someone they know and love so they can give one to them. What's even nicer is when they give me free reign! My cousin Amanda recently asked me to make a quilt for her cousin Jen who is due with her first baby next month and she said I could do whatever I wanted. I went with some sweet floral prints and some coordinating blenders on a creamy white background.

Mary Oliver (iykyk) | a quilt for Remi

2025-05-20T11:35:00.003-04:00

Our friends Rachel and Matt recently welcomed a baby girl into their lives and named her Remi. Rachel told me she was really feeling geese for the nursery so I found a super cute goose fabric and chose all the other fabrics based on the geese. I love the little bees and the strawberries and especially the flowers on the back!

sweet squares | a quilt for Clara

2025-05-20T11:12:00.002-04:00

Olga and Cal welcomed their third baby recently and Clara needed a quilt just like big sister Lucia (see her quilt here) and big brother Leon (see his here). I decided to make her quilt in the same style as theirs, concentric squares. You don't really need a pattern for this but I think I used one initially and now I don't know where the inspiration came from! I chose warm colors and some cute animal and floral prints, including one that I also used in Lucia's quilt, the burnt orange and cream animal print. The back is a really soft cotton lawn fabric that I thought I would make a garment out of eventually until I came to terms with the fact that I wasn't and realized it would be great as a baby quilt back!

St. Louis 16 Patch | a quilt for Grant

2024-11-27T15:14:00.003-05:00

This one is for Ezra's fencing coach Bailey's first baby, a boy she named Grant! Ezra loves fencing and the community he's found there so when I found out Bailey was having a baby I knew I wanted to make her a quilt. Her mom told me the baby's nursery was jungle themed so I pulled a bunch of greens from my stash along with some blues and yellows. I made sixteen patch blocks with all different low volume fabrics for contrast and I love how they turned out! My favorite is the lime green with black stars in the bottom right corner followed closely by the bananas.

pink patchwork | a quilt for Lyla

2024-11-27T15:10:00.002-05:00

My brother and sister-in-law are expecting their first baby in December and it's a girl! I'm super excited to have a baby girl in the family since I have all boys and Matt's brother and his wife have two boys. It was really fun to use lots of my favorite girly fabrics that I've been hoarding for the right quilt. I loved using these cute Aneela Hoey panels as focal points for the blocks (my favorite is the little dress with shoes in the bottom right corner), and the princess and pea by Heather Ross on the back!

patchwork chore coat! | for me

2024-11-27T15:05:00.009-05:00

I made a quilt coat! It’s my new favorite article of clothing so expect to see me wearing it constantly. I told Matt that if our house ever caught on fire that this is what I would grab before evacuating, and yes, I made him do an entire photo shoot for me while we walked to dinner a couple weeks ago. The fabric is a print by Alexia Abegg for Ruby Star Society called Honey Double Wedding Ring (yes, it's a cheater print - I wanted to use one for my first quilt coat because the pressure of choosing the right pattern and fabrics was crushing), the lining is Moonglow Dahlia by Alexia too, the binding is Starry in saddle, and I made cute patchwork pockets to coordinate. The pattern is by Patchwork & Poodles and it was excellent! I think a confident beginner could make their own quilt coat without a problem. So make one! Let's be twins!

midpoint III | a quilt for Audrey

2024-11-27T14:53:00.011-05:00

I made this quilt for an old friend who was having her first baby, and when I finished it I had the idea of taking pictures at a mural near our house. The pictures don't do the quilt justice because everything looks yellow but I still like them! I took these first two images at home so the color is pretty accurate, but Ezra helped me with the rest at Garden City.

tiny tiles VII | a quilt for Wyatt

2024-11-27T14:49:00.008-05:00

This one’s for Wyatt! Another #tinytilesquilt (free pattern from purlsoho) with some anchors and whales on the back because these friends live on the Providence River ⚓️ Over the past few years I've enjoyed occasionally making sibling quilts the same but different - check out his brother Emmett's here!

delivered! | another quilt for Kristen and David

2024-11-27T12:38:00.004-05:00

You might think you’re experiencing déjà vu looking at this quilt but you’re not, it’s just super similar to one I made a couple months ago because that one was stolen from the apartment it was sent to so I made a new one 😭 The good thing is that I think I like this one better! Still hurts tho

lost in the mail | a quilt for Kristen & David

2024-11-27T12:38:00.002-05:00

I made this quilt for a friend whose friends were having their first baby. I mailed it off to their apartment in Boston and unfortunately it was stolen off their doorstep, or perhaps never delivered, although the USPS tracking says it was. I hope whoever has it now likes it!

midpoint quilt I | a quilt for Lucia Rose

2024-11-27T12:31:00.005-05:00

This one is for a little one named Lucia Rose. Her big brother is a German shepherd and her mom is a yoga instructor, hence the perfect German shepherd yogi fabric by that I found on spoonflower. Pattern by Cotton and Joy which I love and will definitely make again. Many thanks to my friend Jess for trusting me to make it!

fresh as a daisy | a quilt for Luna

2024-11-26T12:35:00.003-05:00

For Luna 🌸 I didn’t look at the pattern too closely when I bought it so I was a little taken aback when I had to cut out hundreds of pieces but all the time spent on this quilt was definitely worth it! And since it took so long to make I got lots of tv time in - I watched all of Rez Dogs, a bunch of Abbott Elementary, and season 3 of Bridgerton 💜

Pattern by Pen and Paper Patterns!

sunshine on a cloudy day (midpoint II) | a quilt for Noella

2024-11-26T12:31:00.008-05:00

Sunshine on a cloudy day! Because second babies deserve quilts too, of course 💖 This one is for Matt's cousin's son's baby sister (if you can follow that). Pattern by Cotton and Joy

May the Force Be with You | a quilt for Sebastian

2024-11-26T12:24:00.012-05:00

I made this quilt for Rae's baby brother back in 2023 and for some reason this post was stuck in my drafts so I'm just publishing it now. Off course he needed a Star Wars quilt too (check out hers here!). I asked his mom Thelma which characters she'd like best and she said Leia, Luke, Han, and R2-D2. All good ones! I had a lot of fun paper piecing the blocks because it's a technique I don't usually use and it's always nice to practice. Like last time, I made two and raffled off the second one to benefit a local family whose daughter is fighting cancer. I love making quilts and it's even nicer if I can help someone who needs a little extra support along the way.

Pattern is by Quiet Play!

twin bento boxes | quilts for Rosemary and Sylvia

2024-03-18T17:04:00.000-04:00

I’ve had two cousins have sets of twins recently and I’ve learned that it’s so fun to make two quilts! These were extra fun because I was the only one who knew the babies’ gender (not even the mom and dad knew! They had a nurse call me!) so I had an exciting secret for months. I didn’t meet my self-imposed deadline of finishing by their birth so once the babies arrived I had my mom @dmmeenan help me with cutting and sewing so we could get the quilts done faster. These are mod bento box quilts (pattern by @filminthefridge) made with coordinating raspberry and coral toned fabrics from @beyondthebolt.ri. I hope Rosemary and Sylvia (aka Rosie and Sylvie) love them like I loved my baby quilt! We took the photos after brunch at @nicksonbroadway at the Wedding Cake House next door, and of course Rory had to jump in! I actually had Matt edit him out of the first shot 😏

tiny tiles VI | a quilt for Vera

2024-03-18T16:59:00.001-04:00

A little sister quilt to match big brother's quilt. I made this one for Vera, the brand new daughter of my friends Liz and Dante from Orangetheory, after making one for their son Luca a couple years ago. I used Purl Soho's tiny tiles pattern again - it's such a good one! I've probably made this quilt more than any other (I just counted - it's the sixth!). I love how it looks so different depending on the colors used, and it sews up so quickly! This one has lots of pinks, and I accidentally made an extra row so I put it on the back along with a pink on pink polka dot. And then I bound it in pink polka dots too!

scrappy log cabin 2.0 | a quilt for Charlie

2024-03-18T16:50:00.005-04:00

Made this little log cabin for Charlie using so many of my favorite fabrics - pink honey bears, polka dots, strawberries, ice cream, rifle paper co florals, stars, honeybees, blackberries, butterflies, cats, moths, and moon bears 💖 And here's the quilt I made for big sister Olivia a couple years ago!

Henfluenced | a quilt for Jaclyn

2024-03-18T16:48:00.003-04:00

It’s hard to describe what it’s like when someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, although I know it’s an experience far too many people are intimately familiar with. It often feels like there’s not much you can do. Some people pray or send positive vibes, some people go grocery shopping or make meals, and some people drop off gifts for the kids to keep them busy or drive them to their activities. These are all things I’ve done in some capacity, but I always want to do more, especially when what I’d really like to do is eradicate cancer from the planet and especially from my cousin’s body. Since I can’t do that, what I often do instead is make a quilt. My cousin Jaclyn is someone I’ve looked up to since I was little. She’s always been artistic and fashionable and thoughtful and adventurous and I’ve always admired her. Learning that she was diagnosed with cancer two months ago at only 40 years old was devastating, and I started planning a quilt almost immediately, enlisting her mom, her sister, my mom, and two of our aunts to help. We worked quickly so the quilt would be ready when Jaclyn started treatment, and I hope that it’s been providing her with warmth and comfort throughout the process. We’re trusting that she’s already got this thing beat! She has five infusions down and thirteen to go so please keep her and her family in your thoughts! And make sure you do your self exams! 💛🐓🥰 [chicken block pattern by @hollygetsquilty, inspiration for making an entire chicken quilt by @quiltylove, fabric from @beyondthebolt.ri]

add it up | a quilt for Jacob Daniel

2024-01-08T15:05:00.004-05:00

I think this is one of my favorite quilts ever, I love the simplicity and natural colors. As often happens to me, I intended to make a different quilt and made some errors that forced me to change course. I planned on making this quilt an X rather than a + but I cut the background wrong. Luckily, I don't think Jacob will mind! He's the third son of my brother's friends Jon and Anita - actually, no, they're my friends too! The back is delicious too - the softest polka dot fabric I've ever come across, some frogs, ikea number script, and apples! Here's the quilt I made for Zachary, Jon and Anita's first son, and Isaac, their second son. And here's to families with three boys!

twin stars | quilts for Austin + Jackson

2024-01-08T14:54:00.002-05:00

Twin baby boys in my family = twin quilts 💙💙 My mom and I worked on these together for Austin and Jackson, my cousin’s new little ones. I planned a different set of quilts but then cut all the fabric wrong and had to pivot. Luckily it still worked and I like how they turned out! Also I have to thank Rory and his best bud Nico for being my quilt holders when we were at the library last week.

mini single girl | a quilt for Mackenzie

2024-01-08T14:48:00.003-05:00

A little Single Girl Quilt (pattern by @dsquilts) using so many of my favorite fabrics (all by @annamariahorner) with cute monsters and rainbows on the back for Mackenzie 👾🌈💖 [and yes, I goofed and used two different whites but it’s less noticeable in person and I don’t think babies mind design flaws too much]