Baby Harry Potter

There is a lot of Harry Potter fabric out there. (And I have serious plans for a lot of it.) But most of it isn’t exactly baby friendly.

Enter Spoonflower.

If you’ve never shopped at Spoonflower, you should. Independent designers upload their designs and you can shop them and then print onto a wide variety of fabrics: quilting cotton, jersey, linen canvas, and more. Or, if you are an artist, you can create and upload your own design onto fabric.

And the designers hit all the notes from flowers to dinosaurs to the TARDIS to Harry Potter. It’s a little addictive (I may have just spent 10 minutes shopping for Dungeons and Dragons fabric while writing this post).

The other cool thing you can do is mix and match designs – and even make what is called a “cheater quilt.”

Essentially, you pick as many fabrics as you want and start filling in the squares. You could make a row of a fabric or make squares – which is exactly what I did with this baby friendly Harry Potter design.

I printed it on Kona cotton (because I know that baby quilts need to last for lots and lots of washings) and I loved how it turned out.

The great thing about a cheater quilt is that you don’t have to piece it because it is printed as a quilt. So all you need to do is potentially add a border, make a quilt sandwich, and then quilt it!

I had some gradient thread in the right colors, so instead of quilting with one boring color I quilted with a lot of different colors. I especially loved how it showed on the white border that I added to my quilt.

One secret to shopping at Spoonflower is that the Harry Potter police come after designs. So look for “boy wizard” or “wizard” instead of “Harry Potter.”