Finally made some things.

It's been way too long. Here are my recent projects.

A quillow for the baby girl of some friends, commissioned by another friend! We gave it as a joint gift.

Another quillow - this time for my nephew, and I appliqued 2 previous J's before I did this one and was happy with it. I will make him something from the practice attempts, but didn't want to put a mediocre one on a quillow. I have only made a patchwork / applique pocket once before, and  I am definitely going to keep this idea going, although it takes much longer to make a quillow that way. An extra evening (or in this case, an extra 2 evenings!).

Finally, another waldorf inspired doll, for Little Miss Joy's first birthday, but I will do a separate post for that one. :)

Housewarming Quilt - quick job!

I am afraid that progress with the Nightdresses Memory Quilt has halted. The Lemoyne Star "Space Ranger" quilt is...not yet quilted. I am a proud owner of a number of UFOs.  Or UFQs. Ok not so proud. Unless having a number of projects on the go make me an official Quilt Geek. (How much experience do you need before you are a Quilting Geek?).

Anyway, SIL was moving house, buying her first place, and I had a jelly roll crying out to be made into a housewarming present. Not an official  Moda Jelly Roll but actually a Hofffman's Bali Pop (Mint Choc Chip, to be precise). It was part of my birthday present 2 years ago and it's so hard to decide what to do with them! I've made different designs in my head but in the end doing a version of the Midnight Mystery Quilt (MMQ) won out on a time basis. Because I made it in October and was proud new mummy to Little H#5. She helped. (Picture below).

Here is Little H-Joy, 3 months old. Helping. At that age, sleeping while I sew in my middle of the afternoon "downtime" is very helpful. ;)

I can't find the picture of all the strips laid out one afternoon in my living room so the only "process" photo is all the squares laid out on my bed. I trried to categorise the strips by colour (instead of having contrasting strips making up the squares as I'd done with the MMQ). Finding a layout for them was tricky but I got there in the end.

We've moved house since I last quilted so no lovely wooden floor to baste and quilt it on, but I managed on the kitchen floor.

Here's the finished quilt. I bought some batik for the border, and I was mighty pleased with my brainwave for the binding. I love binding quilts, once I have actually made the binding. I sliced the squares and sewed the lengths together and made a binding from them. Just love it. Worked really nicely although I could probably have given it a little extra width but I managed to bind it nicely and am really pleased with the result (you can see it quite nicely in the folded pic).

Folded. You can just about see the label with our family picture and a personal message. I don't really want to close up on the label because it has personal details on.

Presentation of said quilt to lovely Auntie S.

It looked really good on her chair - the chocolate covered leather went really well with the colours of the quilt. Coincidence. :)