Quilt-ober is over!

Phew, what a month of quilting October was!

Finished the third baby quilt (luckily the birthday party wasn't until 29th) whilst on stay-cation in the hills of Ferguson :)




Again I have to thank favequilts.com for sending me some awesome quilt patterns, cos this again is from their fabulous quilters/bloggers who share their quilts for free.

Called Arizona Sun (using the Anvil block), this quilt was the first that I sandwiched and pinned by myself and what a traumatic experience!  I'll obviously need more instruction from the ladies at my patchwork club.

Still, I love the way it looks with the bottle green as the background & the colours in the white "Hello" triangle helped me select the other fabrics :)

Almost finished the binding - 'scuse the blur!

Adore the backing - the giraffes are part of a brilliant panel I picked up but had to sash them to fit :)

So now, as the end of November looms large I'm off to the sewing room to complete the utensil wraps I'm making for a friend and to get my November themed hexagon sew-a-long completed!

If you'd like to make the Arizona Sun Baby Quilt head to Krystal Jakelwicz's letsquiltsomething.blogspot.com

I'm Back!

6 years and a new hobby later, along with multiple jobs and a couple of house moves :)

Wanted to show off the patchwork quilts that I have made for a couple of new friends and their new babies!

The first is a pattern called Archipelago and I was so impressed when it was finally all pieced together just how much it looked like the original (colour differences not withstanding).  This was my first machine pieced quilt and after many years of only using my sewing machine to mend clothes, I finally MADE something from scratch.

Particularly liked the back with the insert that mirrored the top pattern.

And I really thought I was something special when I bound my label before sewing it into the quilt's binding :)  I will admit I only did that because I read after I had already done the quilting, that the label should be quilted at the same time to make it harder for thieves to steal a quilt.

My second baby quilt (they are sooo quick to make, unlike the hand pieced hexie quilt I'm doing) happened even quicker than the first and is a traditional Checkerboard pattern.

And again with bound label lol, because although I knew that it should be quilted, I've decided I quite like binding the label!

Now it's off to the sewing room to complete quilt 3 for the month of October!

NB. Both quilt patterns were downloaded from favequilts.com
Thank you to Shana Kreikemeier from Needyl for Archipelago and

Michelle Marr from Michelle’s Romantic Tangle for Carrie's Checkerboard Quilt