Sweet Garden made with Vintage Modern Layer Cake

Sweet Garden made with Vintage Modern Layer Cake, a photo by ladybug quilting on Flickr.

Sweet Garden made with Vintage Modern Layer Cake

Missing in Action...

Sorry I have been missing in action for the last few weeks, I have been working on a lot of different things and achieving nothing.

Do you ever have weeks like that?
I have delivered two more Quilts to the local quilt store for sale so that has taken up a bit of time and have been working on a third for them.
Here are the three quilts.

Post and Rail made from Simply Colour by V & Co

Fabric is Sweet Divinity by Quilted Fish

Fabric is Butterfly Fling by Me and My Sister

I have finished quilting my mother’s Sweet Garden that she has made out of Terrain and it is so pretty, now I just have to quilt mine made out of Vintage modern. I am going to a retreat at the end of the month and would like to use it then on my bed because it is a great size and should keep me toasty whilst having something for show and tell!

If you would like to see more of my day to day quilting and things then come and join me on Instagram! If you’re like me you will be hooked!

This is my little girl getting cuddles during the Olympic telecast last night, nothing better than snuggling in a quilt!

I have a Crush...

I finally have my hands on some Tula Pink The Birds and the Bees Fabric.

 Tula is definitely one of my favourite designers.

Love that her ranges have lots of 'critters' in them...

Some are hidden amongst other objects...

 As you can see I have a ‘little’ stash of Tula but now that I have a nice selection I think I might use all three ranges in the one Quilt. I adore the Dream Weaver Quilt in Tula’s book if you are unsure of the quilt here it is courtesy of Emma at Ballarat Patchwork

 (Best Patchwork shop in Australia IMHO)

I have finished another Quilt, binding on just the hand sewing to go....

I will be spending the rest of the day on the couch with a needle in hand.

Life is good!

Today is all about instant gratification!

I opened my V & co. Jelly roll and started a Fence and Rail Quilt pattern.

I have half the blocks on my design wall to give you an idea of the finished product!

The blocks are 10.5" Square and set out will be 5 x 6.
Sorry for the short post but I want to get back to the machine!

Binding a pain in my....

As most of you would know I dislike binding, well that’s not quite the case, Binding doesn’t like me...Well what I mean is that I can only do it in very short bursts because my hands ache sooooo much they start to lock up...

 I hear you say sew your binding down with the machine, I’ve tried it, hated the finish and went back to hand sewing...

Anyway I have bought these Wonder Clips by Clover, And they arrived on Thursday and eagerly I put them on the current binding project I had.
All I can say is I Love them.
 I attached them and got through ½ a Quilt in no time at all and ache free! Yay!!!

So if you are wondering if they are any good give them a go, I know they are expense but they are worth it if you have the problems I did...

Fast forward to this morning... I have attached 2 bindings
 on two Quilts you will have seen before.
Firstly here is a Quilt a made years ago but have never attached the binding, I had it cut and just never got to it.
Well that’s now attached ready for the hand sewing.

The second quilt is my Swoon.

 I’m still plodding along with hand quilting the blocks but I’m happy to have the binding on, hopefully it will spur me along to finish... I had forgotten how much I love this Quilt!

I made another baby quilt yesterday, not a bad effort started at 10am then sat down at 3pm to start hand sewing the binding.

It's been a very Quilty Weekend... Just the way I like it!

Another finish...

This is my not so little Reunion Quilt.

 It has turned out larger than I expected but I love the size. Perfect for taking in the car or if you just want something to go over your knees.

As for the Quilting I did a stipple, large figure eight in the small borders and crosses in the centre blocks.

Backing was an American Jane fabric I bought cheap,

 but it matches beautifully.

 The binding is Vintage Modern love the red polka dot!

Love my Ladybug Quilting Labels...

These 2 beauties have arrived recently and I love both of them... Elizabeth’s book is fantastic, I have picked out a number of Projects to make already, and I’ve even bought the Templates from Tabslot on Etsy!

I have finished piecing my Jellybean Quilt made from a Tweet Tweet Jelly Roll, I'm going to use a thin wadding and this will be used as a tablecoth after it has been Quilted.

Happy Sewing... 

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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