Baby quilts

Last week when I got my new sewing machine I decided to start those two baby quilts that I am planning to give to two new babies that will be born soon. I was very happy when I found such colorful fabrics a couple of months ago so I just needed to figure out the design, and since they were so colorful I decided they would be unisex. As time went by I found out one of those babies was going to be a boy and the other one a girl. I thought it would be nice to make the same quilt with just a different base color to see how different they look. This is what I came up with:

La semana pasada cuando compre mi nueva maquina de coser decidi empezar esas dos mantitas para dos bebes que van a nacer pronto. Estaba encantada de haber encontrado telas tan coloridas hace un par de meses asi que solo me quedaba decidir el disenho, y como tenian tantos colores decidi que iban a ser unisex. Segun paso el tiempo descubri que uno iba a ser un ninho y el otro una ninha. Pense que seria chulo hacer la misma manta cambiando el color de fondo para ver como se veian al compararlas. Esto es lo que hice:



Now I have to figure ot the backing and then I will do some quilting with my machine for the very first time...let's see how that goes. I don't have a walking foot so I am not sure if it will work without it, but I have to give it a try. I was experimenting last night with the free hand quilting motion but it was quite a disaster, I think that is a very difficult thing to do because since it's hard to control de speed in which you move your fabrics, the stitch lenght varies quite a bit. Maybe as I get better at this I will be able to do it, but not now...

Ahora tengo que ver como voy a hacer la parte de atras y entonces hare el acolchado con la maquina por primera vez...a ver como me sale. No tengo un pie de acolchar asi que no estoy segura de que me vaya a salir bien, pero tengo que intentarlo. Estaba probando anoche con el pie de manos libres para acolchar y fue un desastre, creo que es dificil porque como es dificil controlar la velocidad en la que mueves las telas, la longitud de la puntada varia bastante. Quizas cuando sea mas diestra en esto me saldra bien, pero ahora no....