Making the stash a little lighter...

I have made a baby quilt out of reunion for a work colleague who knows she’s having a boy and has thankfully told everyone so there was to be no flowers or frills on this one.

I removed the flower patterns from the charm pack and used a pattern from Moda bake shop called Line Dance. It went together in a matter of hours and was very easy, one that I will make again!

It’s currently on the Gammill and I’m free motioning it with a large stipple and a Swirly thing (this is the technical term) in the small inner border still deciding on the strips down the centre of the quilt.
Having been long-arming solidly for the last few weeks I’ve been getting rather twitchy and I needed to get behind my Janome!

I dug into my stash and found this Tweet Tweet Jelly Roll I have had a couple of years now and decided to match that with Camille’s Jellybean Quilt Pattern.
I also removed a few of the brown strip and
 replaced them with blue strips cut from some yardage...

Love the way it is going together... Here it only has I/2 the blocks together, but I put on the design wall so you could get a feeling for the finished product.
I have also dug out this, my Hoop Bag and decided I really should attempt the Hand Quilting on this again as I really want to finish this project.

 After pulling out my last attempt I have started again.
 I am now armed with Tiger Tape so that should (hopefully) make it all better...

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Spring 2012 Bloggers Quilt Festival

This is my entry for this Spring 2012 Bloggers Quilt Festival. Now with all the talk of quilt market the last few weeks you would think I would be ready for the festival... ha not the case.

I found myself yesterday not wanting to reblog any of my Quilts so I loaded my skittles Quilt on to the Gammill and free motion quilted it.

I love this clam shell pattern....

The skittles I wanted to leave fairly plain so you get a definite contrast...

I dug the ruler out which I haven’t used in a while

and quilted lines 1/4 inch in on all skittles....

This is a photo of the backing which gives a better view of what I have done.

Binding is attached, but not sewn down. I know that it isn’t technically finished but my super-woman cape is in the drycleaners and I won’t get it back until next week... so this will have to do.

Thanks to Amy at Amy's Creative Side for hosting a
 fantastic festival once again.

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I need the sun to come out...

Today has been a very quilty day. My Gammill was empty this morning so I took the opportunity to put one of my quilts on...


This is currently my Favourite fabric, it's such a pity every time I want to photograph this quilt the sun is nowhere to be seen. It is seriously vibrant and at the next opportunity I will show you what I’m talking about...

This is the backing fabric and is the best cheater fabric I have ever seen, normally I wouldn’t go near a cheater, actually I would totally avoid like the plague!

Check out the gorgeous selvages...

I quilted it in a pattern called bluster, and have used the cheater as the binding, couldn’t resist the scrappiness of it...

I’ve also got a Good Fortune charm pack and I’m doing some hexagons, wanting to do a pillow for the couch.

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Now I’m going to have a well earned sit down and start sewing the binding down...

Eek...

I just had to share what the postie just delivered...

One whole metre of pink Ladybugs from Tula Pinks Flutterby range.

Destined never to be used!

 

A Quilt in Colour...

I've been waiting for the sun to come out to take these photos
 but by the time I get outside the sun has gone
so after a couple of tries I gave up and relied on my Flash!

The Fabric is A Stitch in Colour by Malka Dubrawsky by Moda.
This is a Quilt made using a stack and slash method.
I used 28 Fat 1/8ths, which I just Ironed stacked and the slash...

Once they were all together I then trimmed them down for a bit of uniformity!
Finished block size: 8 1/2" x 18 1/2"

It is the perfect size for a couch throw,
I'm thinking this is one for the husband not a flower in sight!!!!

Playing with Skittles...

Sorry, I haven’t been blogging lately,
 I have been flat out working on other peoples quilts...

But this morning I decided that today would be all about me!!!

Remember my Fandango Quilt made from the Kate Conklin Pattern off the rails from Last year, Well this is her little sister Skittles...

I have made her out of St Ives by Sarah Fielke for Lecien,

 I was lucky enough to get a Fat Quarter bundle for Christmas (as well as a Woodland Bundle too, but I can’t bring myself to cut that up just yet...)

Super Quick and easy quilt, took 3 hours from thought process to completion. Now I just have to wait for the backing to turn up so I can quilt it.

I have also finished my Come what may quilt...Pattern by Jaybird, made in a variety of Kate Spain Fabrics for Moda. Love this pattern too; have already decided on fabric for my next one...

I quilted in a bright Blue thread a perfect match for the Backing...

My Sew, Laugh, Love Stitchery I got at Urban Stitched last year has been crying out to be started , this is what I have done whilst watching TV lately.

It's a start... Long way to go 

Now I'm off to see what else I can play with...

Come What May...

Sweet Garden made in Vintage Modern...

I have been crazy busy this week, two quilt tops and My Swoon finished and a customer quilt done and dusted.

You may remember this from last week when I posted 1/3 of the Quilt...

2/3 Quilt...

One piece...Yay!

This is my other top finished this week, its Jaybird Quilt’s Come What May...and I must say that this literally went together in Hours, sooooo simple and Quick and ecstatic with the result.

I want to load one of these and get into it before my next Customer Quilt arrives next week, can I beat the deadline?!?

Which one would you like to see finished,
 I’m doing an all-over pattern on both...

Here is my nearly finish Swoon,

I’m hand quilting around the blocks so if I don’t show you this today you may not see it for 6 months, that being how long it will take to finish.

 My hands do not like the hand quilting and I can only do short bursts at a time...

That’s why I love my Long-arm...