Baby quilt

I dont do much quilting by myself but thought i would give it a try for this baby quilt. It was semi sucessful, no obvious tucks but not really as flat as I would have liked! Its all a learning curve right? This baby quilt is for a very neutral nursery, with a touch of pink. Just a little nine patch quilt that grew as I made it.

Pretty pleased with the print I found for the back.

1030 squares later…

I must say it was a bit of " digging in and doing the hard yards" to finish this top. i got so close then things went a bit pear shaped, which necessitated some unpicking. This would have been ok but with some of the fabrics I had, it was a disaster. But first the finished top

Finishing at 75" x 90", it actually is the perfect size for my 6'5 son. After needing to unpick a few ( read multiple) times to get my squares in the right order ( it never ceases to amaze me that you can have 40+ different fabrics and yet still have them randomly end up in the same spot in a row), I discovered that some of the fabrics I'd chosen, which had a looser weave, fell apart as I unpicked them. This of course led me to having to totally remove them from their rows. sigh....

Lesson learnt!
But I really loved this pattern so I will be trying it again.

Been doing some stripping😉

So I have begun a new quilt for one of my boys, piecing 96 strips and then cutting them up again. By the end there will be nearly a 1000 squares....in fact I'm tempted to add some on the back to get to the milestone!

Bordered Nine-patch Finish

Quilted, bound and gifted! Finished on my holiday to visit family on the Far North Coast of NSW....so wet and so green!

My Mum has a regular visitor who lives under the outside light, and has a buffet each night

He can watch the telly from there, too!

Beginnings

 New fabric

Test blocks (pattern from QE Designs)

Bordered nine patch

Managed to get my quilt top together and was pretty pleased with it, really. It was a fun block to piece, and I enjoyed matching up the fabrics as I went along. If I made this quilt again, next time I think I'd make the blocks with the darks and lights in the same places in the block, rather than alternate the lights and darks.

It's been lovely to have some rain lately and to see some things actually growing in the garden. My daughter has a green thumb and planted some sweetpeas for me when she was home during the isolation period. So excited to see them grow and with any luck, bloom soon.

Bordered Nine Patch

Having fun making these blocks from bits and pieces in my stash using this tutorial.

Been a long time since I set up the sewing machine.