Saturday 18 January 2014

Baby's first ABC

One of the ESL teachers I work with is about to go on maternity leave so I was given the job of doing a quilt top for her farewell present. One of the other ladies at work is going to be do the quilting.
Purple is her favourite colour, so it was the perfect choice for the background. We're all quite sure the nursery will have a strong purple theme.
Layout took a long time. I think it was because there were two lots of three items. It didn't look right when they were completely symmetrical, so I kept moving and moving till it looked better. Originally the butterfly was going to be the only addition, but in the end I had to include the snail to keep it a bit more balanced.

Tom's animals


Back in October I mentioned I'd just finished a quilt for baby Lauren. As I thought about sending it I realised that I'd never done one for her big brother Thomas. I had a quick look at my stash of fabric but couldn't find anything particularly boyish. However I did discover these animal prints amongst some of the fabric I got in South Africa in 2011. Perfect I thought - and perfect it was! I found out at Christmas time that Tom has this fascination with lions, tigers, and any other wild animals that roar loudly :)

Strip-along quilt




In November I did a workshop at the local craft shop on strip-along quilts. As usual what looks very complicated was way easy, and I'd half finished the blocks before the end of the workshop. It then took me the rest of the week to find the time to do the rest and put it all together.

Saturday 2 November 2013

Friday 1 November 2013

Everything finished


Quilt tops in review

Here are a few of the quilt tops I've finished in the last few months... but they are still all UFOs as I haven't got as far as quilting them yet.


This was just an attempt to use up a whole lot of my blue and green scraps, many of which were already 2" strips.




These two were a result of a workshop on the jelly roll race - a new way to do a quick and easy quilt using jelly rolls.


Having done several predominantly green quilts in the past I seemed to have a huge number of small  2" strips that needed to be used up. The post and rail block seemed to be ideal for these.



I found these matching fat quarters in Perth one day and just had to have them. I had fun using the stack and slash method to make these really random blocks.




These were the result of helping out on a work related quilt project. They were originally meant to be identical, but having already handed one in I didn't have it to refer to, and somehow the blocks got reversed when putting the second one together... but that didn't matter at all. They will soon be on the beds at Killara Respite Centre in Northam.

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Quilt block swap

Last month I joined a quilt block swap. Even though I've been quilting for a while I've done very little piecing of traditional quilt blocks, and I thought this would be a fun way to get some practice. 
If you are interested have a look at http://quiltingblockswapsaustralia.blogspot.com.au/

This is first block I received from Maria in Dongara WA. My request had been for any blocks in red, white and black.



Maria asked for any block with red, white and aqua fabrics, so this is what I sent her.