Flashback Friday - Miss H's Quilt

Miss H's first quit which I finished just after when she was six months old was a bit too small for a big girl bed. So for her birthday last year I whipped up this number.

                          

It's lots and lots of three inch squares, in a simple patchwork. Kind of an eye spy quilt. Lots of fun prints mixed with a few neutrals. I tried to keep it low-ish volume and stuck to warm colours

For the backing, I pieced together a few bit which had been in my stash for a while, a great  japanese cheater print which I bought in Chinatown in Singapore, and a pint spot fabric from Spotlight in Singapore. Bound in red and white striped (heavily influence by Rita from Red Pepper Quilts - like a lots of my quilts!)

And here it is sitting happily on her big girl bed.

my creative space

this week i'm working on a quilt for Sophia, i've had the fabrics for two years now, so i decided it was high time for this quilt to make it to the top of the to do list. lots of far far away in pink and orange to match her bunting and canvases, and there will be a pillow to match too. just hope i don't run out of the white linen!

toyko subway map quilt

finally finished, only started it about 9 months ago!!!!


please excuse the dreadful photo i really must find a better way of photographing large quilts

but she's finished and i love her! she's awesome, thank you elizabeth for such a great pattern and quilt along.



made using lots of scraps and fabric from my stash (although an emergency trip to spotlight was called for after a complete lack of any grey in my stash was noted) and the white is an ikea sheet



i loved the quilting so much on the original quilt, i went with the same straight line quilting, although i didn't stitch in the ditch (partly because i forgot, and by the time i realised i really couldn't be a***d to go back and fill it all in!!!)

the cutting of the squares took long time, as did sewing the 1600 pieces together, but it was well worth it!

and the back is some ikea houses fabric, along with some blah blah blah fabric which i think is from timeless treasures, along with a small piece of black and grey to make it big enough.

my creative space

today i will mostly be working on my tokyo subway map quilt.



i did the quiltalong on oh fransson, finished the top months and months ago, did half the quilting and then gave up as the quilting was so dreadful! i just can't seem to get the tension right, but in the end i just decided to live with it and finish it off. i think the dreadful quilting may have something to do with the thread, it's DMC hand and machine quilting thread, but i think it's too thick so i'll keep it just for hand quilting.

check out all the other creative spaces here.

purple baby quilt

here's a little quilt i finished last week, it's probably in a dark lonely sorting office now - on it's long journey to it's new baby owner in england.



it's a three improv-ed log cabins sashed in white, on a natural linen background

the gorgeous little purple flower was a japanese voile i got in spotlight which i love love love. unfortunately i haven't seen in again.



also in those little log cabins are a couple of shot cottons, some grey kei honeycomb and a little snippet of some kokka ballerinas, some kona ash and a couple of other little scraps from the scrap box



quilted with organic lines a la jacquie

i bound it with the voile which from a longevity stand point - probably not the best choice, but it's just so gorgeous and yummy i couldn't resist!



hopefully it will enjoy have a little baby girl rolling around all over it!

bloggers quilt festival

here's my entry for the bloggers quilt festival over on amy's creative side.


i started it when H was doing time (9 months gestation! actually 8 and a half!) and after deciding to add hand quilting detail with perle 8 i finally finished it a couple of weeks ago (H is six months old!), i could only manage a couple of lines at a time due to boredom and a sore finger.


the fabrics are a bit of mixture, the matryoshkas were where the whole theme started - i decided a simple strip quilt would be the best thing to show off the large scale print. and i added the michael miller dot in teal, a gingham seersucker in red, a couple of small dots i found at spotlight, and a great find from spotlight - the blue retro floral which i have since realised is almost exactly the same as a cath kidston print.

the back is a few strips of leftover scraps, dividing some off white linen and the amy butler lotus print.


and i found the perfect stripe for the binding in my stash.


amy puts in a lot of hard work to organise the festival - hop on over and take a look at all the other quilts, and checkout the sponsors.

My (messy) Creative space......

my creative space this week is extremely messy!


but mess is GOOD - in my book it means productivity (well that's what I tell myself!)

.....there's a little baby quilt being quilted (it will be a tad late to it's baby recipient)....


....the single girl quilt top and backing waiting to be marked, basted and quilted....


....and my baby girl's quilt finally finished, washed and out to dry....

my creative space - single girl update

here she is so far!

my first complete block.

had a few issues with getting it to line up, i sewed Q1 and Q2 together and then Q3 and Q4 together but then the rings were nowhere near matching up so i had to take a bit out of the centre seam and use lots of pins. hopefully blocks one through 19 go together a little more easily.

tonight will be spent laying out the blocks on our giant rug. because i've used scraps, no ring quarter is the same and i want to get colour and value balance right in each ring and across the quilt as well a making sure the same fabrics don't sit too close to each other - this could take a while!

head on over to the flickr group to see some serious single girl loveliness!

My Creative space......

My how quickly Thursday rolls around! I'm sharing my creative space with a single girl.....





This little pile is 620 handcut pieces of fabric stitch together to one day soon make up a fan-dabby-doozy king size quilt for our bed! (note the trousers folded up in the background - need sewing back together after I ripped the crotch - must get on that diet ASAP!)





I'm fairly far behind the schedule for the Single Girl Quilt Along run by Katy, Nova and Meg, but that doesn't bother me - as long as I get this baby finished one day! Go check out the flickr pool to see some fab finished quilts and quilt tops.


My arcs are on hold until my background fabric arrives - kona bone ordered from Sew Fresh fabrics on etsy.


So from now until it arrives, my creative space is going to be filled with finishing some much neglected WIPs!

Echino Irish Chain

Here's the Echino fabrics which I ordered from Fabricworm and Lucky Kaeru Fabrics. One day soon they will be chopped up and sewn back together into a Single Irish Chain quilt.


I'm itching to get started, but so far my will power is winning and I'm concentrating on finishing some of the many projects which have been lying around!


Hopefully my fabric stack photos are getting a little better, after reading these posts about uploading from flickr and editing in iPhoto

WIP Wednesday

I'm slowly working on the hand quilting on this quilt.





But it hurts my finger : (


So I only do a line or two every few days! In light of this I've reviewed my expectations on how many hand quilted lines I will do! Then onto the binding!