Quilting Progress & A Mini Make

On January 1st I did a blog post listing some quilt tops that I'm looking to complete as quilts this year.  As we are now three months into the year I thought I'd see if i've actually managed anything on my list.  You can see the original post here.  I was pleasantly surprised by my own results :)

Hannah Quilt
This is now complete.  Hannah uses her quilt EVERY day cuddled up on the sofa. :)

Stars Quilt
No change on this project :(

Pinwheels Quilt
No change on this project :(

Speedwell Quilt
This quilt is now layed & basted all ready to start on the quilting :)

Busy Lizzie Quilt
No change on this project :(

Now for the Mini Make.  This week was my monthly quilt group meeting & we had a list of items to bring with us, including some precut fabric.  This was our mini-make for the evening.

The design for this came from the Valentine Pennie Tutorial on the Moda Bake Shop website.  Originally designed for valentines treats, I thought they'd be perfect for the children to collect mini eggs in this Easter.

Happy Stitching :)

Quilt Group Mini Exhibition

Yesterday we had a mini exhibition at my quilt group, Shirley Quilters, & part of the exhibition was all the completed Block Of the Month quilts thats we'd been working on since January. I literally finished the binding on mine at around 22.15 Monday evening. So here it is, finally, my completed BOM quilt. I also went around & took photos of the other BOM quilts so you can see what other people achieved with the same blocks.

Hope you enjoyed seeing the quilts :)

WIP Wednesday

A quick post today to share a couple of quilt WIP's that I have on the go.

The first is a drunkards path bag. This bag is part of a course I'm doing on curved seams. I'm about a week behind everyone else due to my holiday but I should be all caught up before next week :)


The second is the BOM quilt from my quilt group Shirley Quilters. All the blocks are now complete & the sashing is also complete. I have two borders that are all cut & ready to stitch. Hopefully this will be finished in the very near future as it's being displayed at an exhibition on 15th November!!!!


There are lots of other WIP Wednesdays for you to check out, just pop over to Freshly Pieced & have a look at all the linkys at the bottom of the post... enjoy :)

Seeing Stars!

This is a mini quilt that I've just completed for my quilt group. It's part of an ongoing project called Chinese Whispers where we all take inspiration for our quilt from another members quilt & that members is the only other quilt you get to lay your eyes on....... that is until November when we have a mini exhibition & we get to see just where inspiriation took us.

Looking at this I think it's a great size for a mini table mat maybe for the centre of a rectangular table or maybe a mat for a mini dresser or coffee table.

I love the colours in the quilt (huge thanks to Franney for assitance with some of these) & the fact that I had at least seven star fabrics in my stash :)

Block name: Star Of Hope
From: Quick & Easy Quilt Block Tool for iPhone by C&T Publishing, Inc.

Happy Stitching :)

Two more BOM's

I thought I'd already posted these BOM's but when I checked it turned out to be a figment of my imagination so here they are now.

This is May & June blocks.




This evening I'm working on my Lizzie*Kate Merry Christmas By The Letter cross stitch because it's Monday & as a follower of the Lizzie*Kate Lovers blog we are stitching our LK designs on a Monday, progress picture to follow later in the week.

Happy Stitching :)

Blocks & More Blocks!

A couple of weeks ago I stitched up some blocks really quickly for some ladies at my quilt group. The brief was bright & garish with a 12.5in finished size. All the blocks they collect are being put together to create a giant wallhanging. It was something that I kept meaning to get around to doing but putting it off & putting it off until an hour before I was due to leave for group I realised it was the last day to hand them in!






The other blocks I have to share with you are also from quilt group. They are the February & March BOM's. You can see January's BOM here.



Happy Stitching :-)

Where has the month gone?

Can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. I've been having a look around to see what I've actually been up to & it appears to be not alot. I do however have some photos to share with you of some of the things I have acheived... oh yeah & some of the fabric I've bought... yes... more fabric... it's an illness I tell you!!!!

This is the first block in a Block Of the Month (BOM) that has been started at my quilt group, Shirley Quilters. I decided to use the same fabrics that I used to make my pinwheel quilt as I have quite a bit of it still available & thought it would be nice to see a totally different project made with the same fabrics.




I attended a Jelly Roll workshop run by my quilt group early in February. I chose to work from the book Two From One Jelly Rolls by Pam & Nicky Lintott & the design I chose was the Speedwell Quilt. This picture shows the layout of the centre of the quilt. I still need to sew it together & pick my fabrics for the border. The Jelly Roll I used was Lumiere d'Noel by French General.



Here I get to share with you some additions to my fabric stash... yikes... must sew more!!

Fat Quarter Bundles of Eastern Miniatures from Fabric Freedom
in 3 different colourways

Fat Quarter bundle of 3 Lakehouse Penelope Fabrics
From The Little Fabric Store

FQ bundle of Cafe Mocha in pretty pinks, reds & chocolate browns.
FQ of Bite Me by Michael Miller in Lime.
FQ of Aunt Grace Classics Rosebuds in Yellow (RAK gift from shop owner).
Bag of scraps, some of which are soooo pretty.
All from The Fabric Loft

2 x FQ's from the Lovehearts range by Makower UK

Thats me done for this evening. I'll share more soon.

Happy stitching :-)

Bloggers Quilt Festival

This year I thought I'd add my entry to the Bloggers Quilt Festival which is over at Amy's blog. My entry is a quilt that I have quite literally just finished. It's a design by Cosy Quilt Designs called Butter Cake. Most of the fabrics I used are from a designer called Paula Ozier. Paula came to my quilt group, Shirley Quilters, & gave a talk about how she got into designing & producing her own fabrics. We all got a chance to purchase some of them & this is the quilt I made with mine. I added the pink, yellow & cream fabrics.


Be sure to head over to the Bloggers Quilt Festival & check out some of the lovely quilts that are being showcased. Some of them are totally amazing.


Here are two other of my sewing finishes:

Christmas Table Runner

Twin Pocket Apron

Hopefully I'll get to update you on The Life Of A Quilt later this week.

Happy Stitching :-)

My First Quilt & An Exhibition

It occured to me the other day that I never did share with you my finished first ever quilt. This was a sampler quilt that I did at an evening class at a LNS at the beginning of this year. Some of the stitching is not the best but I'm really proud of this quilt. It's for my baby boy.



The other thing about this quilt is that i'm going to be entering it into an exhibition :-) It'll be the first time I've entered anything into an exhibition so I'm quite excited. I have two entries, the other one is the christmas table runner in the post below this one. Just in case anyone happens to be in the area... details of the exhibition are as follows.

Shirley Quilters Exhibition
Saturday 9th October 2010
10.00am to 4.00pm
Entrance £2.50 Programme 50p
Shirley Methodist Church, Eldon Avenue, Shirley, CR0 8SD
www.shirleyquilters.co.uk

Maybe I'll see you there.

Happy Stitching :-)