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The unOfficial Totoro Baby Quilt

Totoro Baby Quilt

I know each quilt you make is your favourite, but I’m going to say it anyway – this Totoro baby quilt is my most favourite quilt ever! I had so much fun planning it, and while he’s a little different from my original plan and I had a few cutting errors and thread snapping errors while making it, I’m so thrilled with the outcome.

And who is Totoro? Possibly the most popular Japanese movie character ever! Well-known around the world, Totoro is a super cute forest spirit who helps two little girls.

Totoro Baby Quilt

The Hello Kitty Liberty blossoms, the mix of greens, the dogwood quilting. The perfect mixture of low volume browns and wood grain quilting. Totoro’s free motion quilted eyes. The lucky cats eating sushi and onigiri for the backing. Even the binding is the perfect shade of grey with a touch of red for some interest.

Totoro Baby Quilt

And all those 2″ finished squares? Barely a mismatched seam. This was one of those quilts where I finally felt like I was growing as a quilter by getting such consistent accuracy. Gosh, between finally feeling like my stash is useful for pulling the colours I need, to feeling like I can actually piece well, I’m feeling like quite the quilting adult now!

Totoro baby quilt

I used a mixture of half-rectangle triangles and strips to put most of Totoro together, and paper piecing to help get those tummy strips and his eyes nicely shaped, before filling in the eye detail with free motion quilting in black.

Stats:

Finished size: 45″ x 50″
Fabrics: Not all known, but includes Sketch Sky (sky), Sketch Charcoal (Totoro), Toy Pop Collection (backing), Little Apples (binding); Tree – Oval Elements, Etchings, In My Room, Grand Hotel; Leaves – Pearl Bracelets, Field Study, Super Fly, Mod Basics Moroccan Lattice, homespun solid, homespun spots, Hello Kitty Liberty
Quilting: 100% cotton batting; Dogwood quilting for the leaves, woodgrain for the tree, loopy scribbles for the sky, in the ditch outlining Totoro

I’ll share some more detail quilting photos and stories later in the week, to save overloading this post with photos! And for those who I know will ask or who already have, I will not be making an official pattern for this quilt – a pixel tree and quilt is easy enough to make up yourself! But I will share how I pieced Totoro and the paper piecing templates later this week too.

Linking up to TGIFF, Finish It Up Friday,

Comments

  1. Lizzie says

    Love it!!! Adore it!!! You did a geat job, Alyce, thread snaps and life notwithstanding!
    I love the backing, the tree (with birchy tree bark) the sketch blue sky, Totoro’s little feet, and just that you made it. It is so wonderful 😀

    Reply

    • Alyce says

      He’s a very very famous anime movie character, probably the most well-known worldwide! It’s a very cute and sweet movie perfect for kids of all ages 😉

      Reply

  19. Stacy says

    I know this is almost 3 years old, but is there a pattern available for this quilt? My friend wants a Totoro nursery.
    Thank you
    Stacy

    Reply

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