My contribution is Daddy's Little Girl
We have three little girls that are totally wrapped around their Daddy's little finger. Hence, the inspiration for the zig-zag that wraps up the quilt.
I added an ombre-sk background moving from black to white to bring lots of modern flair, and combined with the quilting (which I did myself and just love!!) the little wrapped zig-zags really pop!!
The final touch was the adorable tiny applique that references those little cuties that inspired the creation from the start :)
The theme of this little Book Tour is Baby Showers, and I have to say, I have attended quite a few baby showers and am becoming quite the baby shower game expert :) That's right, I can undress and dress a baby doll in 15.2 seconds, I can distinguish baby food flavors from sight with uncanny accuracy, and celebrity baby photo guessing, let's just say baby Justin Bieber still looks a lot like teen Justin Bieber.
But after the games, and the goodies comes my favorite part!! The gifts :) I remember the joy of opening all of my adorable little outfits, toys, and blankets for my little ones and I just love to see a new mom ohh and ahh over cute little baby goodies. And nothing get's quite as loved as a personalized handmade baby quilt :)
I have lost track of how many baby quilts I have made for sisters, sister-in-laws, friends, neighbors, teachers, and the list goes on. At one point in time, a few years back, I had a whole group of friends and sister having babies all together and made over 20 baby quilts in about a year and a half. I even remember to take pictures of most of them, which, as this was before the blogging days, is pretty amazing for me. Please excuse the pre-blogging picture quality, but hey, at least they are finally making their debut here at Happy Quilting :)
I just love making Baby quilts!! I have 3 in the works right now and I wouldn't have it any other way!!! I am sure that you will just love Modern Baby and find lots of Baby Quilt Inspiration.
And you can win a copy of Modern Baby just by leaving a comment on this post telling me your favorite baby shower game. That's it, just one comment a person please. I will pick a random winner on Monday the 29th and announce it here :)
And be sure to continue following along with the tour for lots more chances to win :)
April 18, Thursday Jenny from StitchThis!
April 19, Friday Shea Henderson from Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio
April 22, Monday Jake Finch from Generation Q Magazine
April 23, Tuesday Audrie Bidwell from Blue is Bleu
April 24, Wed Carolyn Friedlander from Carolyn Friedlander
April 25, Thursday Melissa Corry from Happy Quilting (That's Me)
April 26, Friday Jen Eskridge from Reanna Lily Designs
April 29, Monday Sarah Flynn from Fairy Face Designs
April 30, Tuesday Dana Bolyard from Old Red Barn Company
May 1, Wednesday Amy Smart from Diary of a Quilter
May 2, Thursday Carrie Bloomston from Such Designs
May 6, Monday Lindsey Rhodes from LRstitched
May 7, Tuesday Pippa Eccles Armbrester from Pippa Quilts
So that wraps it up :) I hope you have enjoyed your visit!! Have a Happy Quilting Day!!!
I haven't been to a baby shower in ages and don't remember any games. However, my niece is having her first child this summer. I would love to win this book for some baby quilt ideas.
ReplyDeleteHi - I love to play baby shower bingo - It takes a long time, I know, but everyone can play
ReplyDeleteon equal ground. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love making the guests guess how big is the belly by cutting a strip of toilet paper roll, ribbon, etc and then have fun checking who was closer by trying it around the pregnant mummy! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance on winning this ebook. I guess I'm pretty sick but one game I enjoy and get a huge kick out of is the messy diaper game with 12 of them numbered and each with a different candy bar smashed in them. The baby shower attendees need to guess which one is which, without any hints of the candy bars used. Huge laughs and you get to know who knows their sh**! LOL Told you I was twisted. Jane
ReplyDeleteProbably the clothespin game. If you cross your legs you get your pin taken away. If you catch someone else doing so, you get to take theirs. Person with the most clothespins at the end wins the prize!
ReplyDeletemy favorite game is when they give you a safety pin, and tell you that if you say "baby" you have to give the pin to the person who catches you. If you hear it, you get their pin. I am very good at tricking people into saying "baby" :). One year we did a similar game at retreat where the word was fabric. and i was losing my pin like crazy!
ReplyDeleteI love making baby quilts and giving them as shower gifts! The last time I went to a baby shower we didn't play games, just enjoyed the food, visiting, and seeing all the cute baby gifts. So I can't really think of a game that's a favorite.
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't really like any shower games. They just never appealed to me. Door prizes are about a close to a game that I don't mind playing. :) Your baby quilts are all wonderful though the new one is a real prize; love it!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite baby shower game is the string around the belly & I love when you fill-in the blanks for a baby blessing/hopes for baby cards.
ReplyDeleteI Like the game where everyone brings their baby picture and we have to guess who it is.
ReplyDeleteI actually don't have a favorite game, but at my upcoming shower we are only going to play a guessing game about what quotes from children's books belong to which story.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely making a wedding dress out of newspaper - I am amazed at some of the designs that I have seen!
ReplyDeleteWe usually don't have baby shower here in Germany, you get visits and gifts after the baby is born, so I don't know any games. I'd love to have the book anyway because a dear friend of mine is having her baby in September, and of course this little one needs a quilt.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance!
I have never really played too many baby shower games - but I do love trying to match baby pictures with their grown-up counterparts. Love your quilt and the inspiration behind it!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to one in ages!! I liked the old game where you carried a clothes pin between your knees while walking to a bottle and dropped it in.....crazy things we do when we get together!!!! love your quilt
ReplyDeleteMy favorite game was at my baby show in CA. It was coed since we only getto visit family in CA every now and then due to the military. They had bottles filled with tastes drinks and of course the guys wanted beer in theirs. They had to race to finish a 2oz bottle. It was hilarious seeing all these grown men sucking on bottles. The prize was a 6 pack of non alcoholic beer. Another thing I loved that wasn't a game was the diaper raffle. Anyone who brought diapers was given a ticket and at the end of the night a winner was drawn. They won $50 Visa card but we were the real winners! We did the same thin at my baby shower in Texas and we didn't have to buy diapers until my daughter was 10 months old!!! I highly suggest a diaper raffle it helped us out so much! Thanks for the chance to win! I love your quilt!
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At my baby shower we played a nursery rhyme version of a game from our favourite Music Quiz Show "Spicks & Specks" - The Game is called Turning Japanese - you put the words into an online translator from English to Japanese and then take what you get and translate online from Japanese to English ... someone reads them out and people have to guess what the nursery rhyme is. It was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those "anti-shower game" people. I just like to chat, eat, and ooh and aah over presents.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a baby shower, so all these games are a mystery to me! My nephew's wife just gave birth to their first baby yesterday, so this book would be really handy right now :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've been to any baby showers since mine 34 years ago! Can I still enter? LOL!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have baby showers in England so I've never been to one but my favourite party game is 'Twister'!!
ReplyDeleteI like the one where you pass around a try of baby items, then have to remember and write everything down after the tray has been hidden away. I love all of your quilts! Thanks for the chance to win your book. :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful quilt and your quilting was really beautiful. AN easy and favorite game is to guess how long a string has to be to wrap around the mom to be's belly. They even have plastic tape with inches marked on it now.
ReplyDeleteI really like the word games, unscramble baby items, or nursery rhymes. And the guessing of the baby foods, take the labels off and have a small taste.
ReplyDeleteBest baby shower game is to put several flavors of baby foods, each in cup/small bowl, and assign a number for each one. Give everyone small spoon for tasting and see who gets the most correct. It works best if you have 2 or more of the same color. That way they have to go by actual taste.
ReplyDeleteNot much on games but I do like to chat. Love seeing all those quilts, you've come a long way!
ReplyDeleteI love making baby quilts too! I just need more excuses to make them. My husband and I are both the oldest so most of our sisters haven't started their families yet and I'm getting impatient! Of course, all of our sisters love my puff quilts, so I may just end up making a bunch of those and never get a chance to try something new...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite baby shower game is the one where you match candy bars to different pregnancy/baby related terms. ;)
I love your zig zag pattern, and the cite photo of your girls! My favorite baby shower game is filling in the words to nursery rhymes.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I've only been to one baby shower and the games we played weren't that exciting. But they did have tiny bottles filled with M&Ms. I liked those! Great quilt. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a baby shower that had games. We must be a boring bunch here!
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite would be the memory game. Where there are 20 things on a tray, have 20 sec to look, and then have to write down as many as you can remember.
ReplyDeleteI like the game where write down the proper name of baby animals.
ReplyDeleteMy "FAV" game would be the one where you put a bunch of baby items on a tray and you have to remember them... and write them down on paper.
ReplyDeleteI'm awful at baby shower games, but I love to make baby quilts and present them to moms/babes!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite baby shower game is gift bingo! Everyone gets a bingo card with a bunch of gifts written on it. You cross things off as the mommy-to-be opens up the gifts and hope to be the first one to get bingo! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love making baby quilts too. Probably because of their size, but I also love the colors. I like the shower games I win -- I used to be pretty good at winning but not so much lately. Your followers have given some great ideas. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLove the floral quilting on the pink zig zags - sooo sweet! Looks like a great book.
ReplyDeleteYour girls are adorable. Wow! That's a lot of baby quilts at one time.
ReplyDeleteHow fantastic, I love baby quilts too! We don't really have 'baby showers' here but I went to one (of a Canadian friend) where we had to remember celebrities baby names! That was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteI like relay races - changing diapers, buckling doll in carseats - lots of running around the room and giggling.
ReplyDeleteGuessing the belly size/string game is fun! And putting a small safety pin in a bowl of rice, watching people try to get it without looking is fun as well!
ReplyDeleteI must admit that I dont know any baby shower games! sorry!
ReplyDeleteBut I do love making baby quilts, and would love a copy of this book.
thanks for the giveaway...love your quilts!
wat een prachtige quilts doe graag mee met de give-away
ReplyDeleteHELLO! I ALWAYS LOVED PLAYING THE GAME WHERE A TRAY FILLED WITH 'BABY ITEMS' IS PASSED AROUND TO EACH GUEST TO SEE WHO CAN REMEMBER THE MOST OF THE ITEMS!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS SO FOR SHARING!
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I am not much into shower games...just like to visit and see all the fun gifts. Your quilt is my favorite on the tour so far!
ReplyDeleteThe last baby shower I went to one of the games that we played was going around the room and cutting a piece of string the size around that we thought the mother to be was. Then she put them around her to see who was the closest. I can see where a pregnant woman might not find this funny but the mother to be was proud of being pregnant and thought it was fun to see how far off some people were. With the right person and attitude it is pretty funny. I personally like work games but can't think of any at the moment. Cute picture of your girls with their dad. I also enjoyed seeing pictures of your lovely quilts.
ReplyDeleteone my husbands side of the family always does is a bunch of pacifiers in a big jar and who ever gets the closest number wins a gift. I also like, everyone has a card and guesses how much the baby will weigh when born. These cards go to grandma to be and whoever is the closest gets a resturant gift card.
ReplyDeleteI like where you put a scoop of chocolate icecream in a disposable diaper and into the freezer. Then you take them out, pass around and see who can eat the icecream the fastest! It's pretty hilarious!!
ReplyDeleteI also like the memory game with the tray full of baby items. At my daughter's baby shower next to the guest book I provided 5x7 cards entitled "Words of Wisdom". I asked the guests to write tips on raising a child and to sign their names on the back and place them in a basket. This was the last game of the day. We had my daughter pull out the 1st winning card then all the remaining cards and read the words of wisdom out loud...It was a touching moment.
ReplyDeleteOh, baby shower games. They are all so embarrassing!
ReplyDeleteWe played a game at my shower where everyone took pictures of me and my husband and cut out various facial features, etc. to make "predictions" as to what the baby would look like! Hilarious!!! christina112358 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteI never really liked the games at the showers-now quilting I like-er I mean LOVE!
ReplyDeleteI have a new grandson that sure could use a quilt and this book looks like just the thing I need!
Oh my- it has been a long, long time since I've been to a baby shower so I don't remember any games but ask me in a few months as our oldest daughter is expecting our first grandchild (a girl of course) in August. I might have a new one for you then. Off to work on the baby quilt...
ReplyDeletewe do the bath tissure game where you take the amount of bath tissue that you think will go around her belly. the closest to her size wins
ReplyDeleteAfter playing various games at baby showers....I like to get everyone's guess on the birth: date, weight, height, time and baby's gender (if they don't already know it. The winner is given a nice prize like a gift certificate. I always know someone who is pregnant, so having a new book with new ideas would be a wonderful thing to win. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI like the gift bingo.
ReplyDeletethanks for the giveaway..
I like the guessing games at baby showers. And if I'm hosting, I always liked to make people guess the melted gross candy bar in the diaper. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to a baby shower in forever. I don't even know the games they play now. I'm still waiting for a grandchild that my 32 yr old daughter says she's not going to have. Someday????
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the games from the last baby shower I attended. Love your quilt.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a baby shower, they don't seem to be that popular on this dude if the Atlantic. Lovely quilts, thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI love the game where you have to guess the type of baby food. Looks like a great book:)
ReplyDeleteit's been many a year since i was in the baby shower go arounds ... don't remember a particular game, but they were fun. back in the day, i knit blankies for the babies. now that i'm finally looking forward to more greats [i've two teenagers] i'll quilt blankies for them. thanx for the chance to win a copy of this book of marvelous patterns.
ReplyDeleteNever been to a baby shower. Love the book!
ReplyDeleteHaven't been to a baby shower in years so not up to date with the games anymore:(
ReplyDeleteCute quilt and family:)
Love your baby quilts Melissa!! I especially love the stars in the pink and grey, and the bright blue & green one, and of course the hexies!! I can't say I've been to too many baby showers lately (our ward has lost most of the young couples: it's so expensive to buy a house here, and we had one girl in nursery last year, and this year there are no children in nursery!!! :-( But I guess the funniest one is guessing what baby food it is (and of course it's gross too, cause they put them on diapers-looks awful!!). It's hard for me to do though, cause I never bought baby food: I had a grinder that mashed everything up! It was way cheaper that way, and we were way poorer then!! :-) Have a great weekend! H in Healdsburg
ReplyDeleteI like the memory game. It keeps my brain working!
ReplyDeleteI love "the price is right". Hostess holds up a baby item; guests guess price and earn 10 points if they get it exact and 3 points if they are within a quarter. Winner is the guest with the most points and mom-to-be gets all the baby goodies.
ReplyDeleteIt feels quite sad to say it but I have never been to a baby shower. Made several baby quilts as gifts though.
ReplyDeleteIt is only in the last 3 or so years that baby showers are becoming popular here in Australia. I have only been to one and that was for my niece a couple of years ago. I'm sorry to say I can't remember what games (if any) we played! Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
ReplyDeleteHmm - most of the showers I go to don't have games because everyone hates them. haha. Can't think of one!
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a game that I really enjoyed at Baby Showers but I do enjoy the "new" baby products available these days when gifts are being opened!!
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a favorite game but I like #67 Carol V. suggestion for a game, that sounds like fun..
ReplyDeleteI don't really care for shower games, but I did like one in which we suggested baby names--I'm a name nerd. Thanks for the chance to win this great book; I've seen it and there are at least three I'm excited to make.
ReplyDeleteI like the game where every one has a safety pin on their collar and if someone sees them cross their legs they get their safety pin. 3bakergirlsgo@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHave not been to any showers with games, but the gifts and food and company are great!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on being part of the book. It is inspirational to see all the baby quilts you have made. This book helps with some great ideas. I'd love to win one!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite baby shower game is where there are several pictures of different babies each making a different face. There are those cartoon conversation bubbles attached to them and you have to write what the baby is "saying". It is pretty funny! Love those quilts!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge fan of shower games but I do love shower crafts, like decorating onesies.
ReplyDeleteI have not gone to baby shower in 20 years. All I can think of stories on feeding.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to many--at the one for my daughter, we had a "guess the number of diaper pins" in a small jar. My sister had a hard time finding diaper pins, so they were mostly safety pins.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite shower game is seeing how fast you can dress a doll. Thanks for the chance to win a copy if this book.
ReplyDeleteI like the one where you can't say certain words or else you loose your pin.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a baby shower. Otherwise I would tell ya :-)
ReplyDeleteI love playing baby item bingo. It is so much fun to wait to see what is unwrapped and mark your squares!
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I'm not big on games but the memory game was always fun. Love your quilts!
ReplyDeleteChange the diaper game is always fun especially when it's the men doing it.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a baby shower. -- soparkaveataoldotcom
ReplyDeleteI don't care for baby shower games, but the one I remember that was so hard was guess the baby food. There were jars without the labels and you had to guess what was in them and no you did not get to open the jars to smell.
ReplyDeleteI love the clothespin game; when someone says a specific word, then someone else can claim your clothespin (or diaper pin, whatever). And that "how big is the belly game?" I always short my guess by 4 or 5 squares; the mom-to-be will thank you.
ReplyDeleteWe played t/f with a list of possible things about babies and the mothers during pregnancy. That was fun.
ReplyDeleteI like the "how much $$ is this item". I still purchase some of that stuff, so I get most of it right! :)
ReplyDeleteWe are expecting baby #8 is due in August (Mr. Whats-his-name is our 5th boy) and I have had my eye on this book since you blogged about it a few months ago. How perfect would it be if I won this?! I still have time to make something!! ;)
I like the game where guests bring baby photos of themselves and you have to match the person to the photo.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the game when the guest have to guess the gender (If not known), weight and the date and time when the baby will be born. There is usually a prize to be awarded later.
ReplyDeleteI love the game where fill a bowl with uncooked rice & add little bag of colored safety pins in it. Then you blindfold a person & they have one minute to try to find as many safety pins in the bowl of rice as they can- It's really hard because without looking, the rice & the safety pins are hard to tell apart. You can use pink ones for girls & blue for boys. Super fun! awesome giveaway
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to a baby shower in many years. There were games, but I don't remember any.
ReplyDeleteI went to a post-baby shower that had photos of the baby, and guests wrote in captions. That was cute. Thanks for the giveaway! This looks like a fun book.
ReplyDeleteI love the scrambled words. It's unbelievable to me that I can't figure some of the easiest ones out there. The clothespin one is fun to. FYI great tutorial on that strip pieced quilte. You made it look easy and it's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to have everyone cut off a piece of crepe paper or ribbon that they think is the circumference of mom's belly, then have the mommy measure her belly and see whose ribbon is closest to the actual length.
ReplyDeleteAll those baby quilts are beautiful. I like the mystery bag game where you put lots of different baby items into paper bags and seal them up. Everyone gets a chance to feel what's in the bags and writes their guesses down...the winner is the person with the most correct.
ReplyDeleteMy last baby shower was 6 1/2 yrs.ago and we didn't play games. I wouldlove to wi the book.
ReplyDeletei haven't been to a baby shower since my friends with kids are out of state. sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteI love when they blindfold you and try o have ou diaper a baby, it's so funny to watch :)
ReplyDeleteHmm, I honestly can't think of any baby shower games. (That sounds horrible, haha.) We didn't play any at my sisters shower.
ReplyDeleteBaby Bingo is a fun game that everyone can play at a bay shower no matter what their age is. It is like regular Bingo but instead of numbers it has different baby related items on the page.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to a baby shower in a long time. I would love to own this book. now I'm retired and will have a chance to attend the showers!
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I'm not a fan of most shower games. I especially dislike the one where you have so many pins and someone can take one if you say the word "baby" or cross your legs. I actually lose all my pins as fast as I can, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win this book.
Your "Daddy's Little Girl" quilt is just awesome and I love the tutorial you did for the strip quilt also. I have only been to one baby shower and although we played games I really can't remember what they were (I was drinking wine and laughing too much).
ReplyDeleteTwo of my quils on there! Yay! They're beautiful. My favorite baby shower game is the food. :) Or the talking, maybe?
ReplyDeleteAnd that one above was me--Emilee. Whoops! I forgot to log out as John.
ReplyDeleteLove the baby quilt. We never play a game.
ReplyDeleteThe only baby shower game I remember playing, is sampling the baby food and guessing which one it is
ReplyDeleteWe played one at a gender reveal party where you chose which parent's looks you wanted for the baby - body part by body part.
ReplyDeleteThe last baby shower I was at didn't have a game. However, back in the 60's when my sisters were having babies there were games they wouldn't let me play because I was too little !
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have ever been to a shower with any games. But I bet I would be great at diapering a baby with pins in the dark. Got quite good at that since I am the only one who used cloth diapers in my group of friends and that is only six years ago.
ReplyDeletewith daughters that are now married and having babies, it has been fun to see all the old games again. My favourite is the memory game, where you have 1 minute to memorize all sorts of baby items on a tray, then try to write them all down. A new one that I get grossed out by is 'guess the chocolate bar", all warmed up and gooey in a diaper - yuck!
ReplyDeleteYou have a beautiful family! I loved seeing their picture! Would love to be included for the book!
ReplyDeleteThe old toilet paper/ribbon around the belly guessing game. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are prolific baby quilt maker!! There are some happy babies out there with your quilts. I always enjoy the memory game of naming all the baby items that were revealed earlier in the shower.
ReplyDeleteYou are prolific baby quilt maker!! There are some happy babies out there with your quilts. I always enjoy the memory game of naming all the baby items that were revealed earlier in the shower.
ReplyDeletei just found you website and just getting to know my way around here from what i seen so far it fantastic keep up the super work i got to go now but i be back very soon best of luck to all you people. graphics, very nice.super website you guys and three lovely kids goo luck. www.we.hobbiesandcrafts.net
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