Quilt for Baby Robin

The offer to make a baby quilt 10 months ago, was accepted with a list of colours to be used.  Not my usual style for a baby quilt but I'm pleased with the outcome. Searching the fabric cupboard for the required colours gave me very little inspiration - apart from a large lilac piece of fabric for the backing and a nice long FQ of stripped fabric for the edge - however - I did find a pile of blue and grey shirts. I quickly obtained two white and a purple shirt from the charity shop and off I went.

Ta Dah

Finished last week - 2 weeks late due to illness but as little Robin can't use it for the first year I'm sure he doesn't mind!

Baby Quilt for Mia

50th Birthday Cushions

Two hand quilted cushions for a good friends 50th.

Flipping awful pictures but lovely cushions!!

Remember January.....

I cannot believe it's March. I ask this question way too much, but where has the time gone. You may (or actually may not!) remember a few weeks ago, my goal to finish a few projects before the end of March - click here  to view my bags of UFO!

Soooooo, what have I finished.... anything?

Welllllllll.....

Blue and White Baby Blanket - Finished



Willow Pattern Blanket: Annie's Blanket - Finished

Willow Pattern Blanket: Mum's Blanket - Finished

The Circle Blanket: On going - just needing a boarder.

 
And that's me lot for March....of course there has been a little quilting as well!

Fifty Hearts for Fifty Years:



Communication Quilt: Joint effort for QoS Quilting Show

Extra Blanket for Mr Bunny:

Fifty Hearts for Fifty Years

Soooooo, back in 2012 Mum was sorting out and decided to give me her wedding dress to make something, rather than it sit in a box for another 46 years!!!  If you have been following me and my blog for a little while, you may remember this from 2013 - Wedding Dress - Part One  or maybe this Wedding Dress - Part Two, both made for Mum's 70th Birthday.

Well the 26th February is Mum & Dad's 50th Anniversary - for a gift, it would only be appropriate to make something else with the remainder of the dress. So, with not enough dress for a full quilt, but definitely enough for a bed runner - to keep those toes warm, off I set.  Fifty Hearts for Fifty Years.

 Knowing the wedding dress was going to fray after working with in in 2013, I did place vilene on all the sections, hoping that it would stop the worse.

 

Joining the blocks, the fraying started with small amounts....

  

And gradually got worse!

 

Quilting in a really nice gold thread, had it's problems as well - being a three strand thread it kept splitting and getting caught in the machine - I've never had this side off the machine so boy did it need a clean after untangling the spilt thread!! 

 

Binding, and final quilting - with the title and date quilted on the front.

 

Ta Dah

QoS: Black & White Challenge

As part of a quilting group I belong to, Quilters of Sutton, we recently held a Black & White block challenge - with members adding one colour of choice.  We had 29 blocks entered altogether - I volunteered to 'connect' 9 together.

This is my effort.......

Baby Quilt: Baby Green

Of course, I have had at least 7 months notice for this quilt but with the due date Friday 9th, and not even having chosen the fabric - last weekend I made a decision to cancel my Saturday activities and get a move on!!

Well, having not produced a quilt for some time, I'm please to say I've not lost it.  Quilt top made and sandwiched in one day.  Quilted and bound on another!!!  And luckily for me the mother was a week late!!!  Just needs a label when the baby is named and I'm done.

Black & White Challenge - with one added colour......

It seems like months since I have quilted......my free time has always been crammed, especially since taking up quilting.  Even more so when I took up Crochet and of course Photography.

So when we were set a little challenge, at my monthly quilting group - to produce a 12.5" block using black and white fabric, with an additional choice of one colour only - I got just a little excited!! I so need to get out more!

It was nice to work on a small project - with no problem in actually finishing it by the September deadline.

The choice was to make either a stand alone block (to be joined with group blocks) or to make and quilt a block - to be made into a wall hanging, cushion or table runner - or similar.

My first block was a wall hanging...... can you tell what it is yet! 

Ta Dah........

And as for my second offering...... a little bit of foundation.  I had an idea to do six blocks - each with a different colour but time was not on my side!!

Ta Dah.....

Project Linus: Motox Quilt

I've had these Motox panels for several years now - sitting on a pile - ready to be made up.  I purchased the panels thinking they would be 'pain free' to make up.  Project Linus are always requesting more male orientated quilts - so I thought it was abut time I made the panels up - and for a very good cause.

So with a quick pattern drawn up - and all materials pressed and the fleece backing found - I made a start. Trimming the centre panel I ensured all opposite sides measured the same.  But when folding the panel in half ( to find my centre point) I discovered there was a massive 'gap' on one side.  I spent a couple of evenings scratching my head as to what knock on effect this would have on the following rows and then on the advise of my fellow quilters - just got on with it!

A simple design of a chequered boarder and squares were added and then just simple quilting - made in no time at all.

Ta Dah...

One down and one to go!

Sandown 2014

Sandown 2014: The quilting and crochet has taken bit of a back seat of late but I made sure my photography portfolio work was completed early so I could attend Sandown - having missed it last year.   I had a list of items to restock my 'crafting cupboard' and a list of items for a hand quilting course booked for September.  Looking hard for inspiration to start my quilting creative mojo off - these are just a few of the quilts I liked.

I felt there was a little something missing this year and I'm not sure what - perhaps my creative mojo has been elsewhere!!