Baby Quilt Gift Set Surprise

This personalized handmade baby quilt gift set included a fun surprise!

This personalized handmade baby quilt gift set included a fun surprise!

Baby Quilt Gift Set Surprise

One of the things I enjoy doing when we finish making a handmade baby quilt is matching it to a gift toy or item to make it into a gift set. So many of our customers like to order and ship directly to a different address that having the gift sets featured and ready to ship makes it easier for customers to see exactly what they are ordering, and what their gift recipient will get on the other end.

The match also includes the actual handmade baby quilt that they are buying. Since many of our handmade baby quilts are custom, no two are exactly alike so we like our customers to see the exact handmade baby quilt they are purchasing.

Since so many of our thank you notes involve comments about the delight over the free toys, I take the matchmaking process quite seriously.

When matching up the handmade baby quilt with the free toy that delivers the gift tag, I try to take my cue from the fabrics in the baby quilt. There is a pink rag baby quilt with ducks so the gift toy I matched to the baby quilt is a cute baby toy duck, for example.

For this pink baby quilt gift set, in the original photo I had a purple bunny that complimented the baby quilt. When the handmade baby quilt was purchased, however, I remembered seeing another purple bunny that would be an even better match. Can you see why?

The toy bunny had wings to match the purple dragonflies on the handmade baby quilt!

The toy bunny had wings to match the purple dragonflies on the handmade baby quilt!

When matched with the pink rag baby quilt with the purple and blue dragonflies, they looked like they were made for each other. They all looked perfect bundled together in the gift box, I smiled the whole way down to the post office.

It really is the simple things in life.

Charlotte

Don't Store Quilts in Plastic

One of our personalized ABC baby quilts wrapped in plastic to ship. Should be temporary!

One of our personalized ABC baby quilts wrapped in plastic to ship. Should be temporary!

Don't Store Quilts in Plastic

I know, here I am telling you not to store quilts in plastic and I just wrapped a personalized Alphabet in Clouds baby quilt in two plastic bags.

It's temporary, just for shipping in the event the box gets damaged. It happens very infrequently but when it does, I don't want our customers getting a damaged gift quilt at their end.

Once you get the quilt, remove from plastic and discard. To best store the quilt, fold like a sleeping bag. If you want to protect it, tuck the quilt into s cotton pillow case or wrap in a piece of cotton fabric.

How do you currently store your quilts?

Charlotte