No1 finish for 2010

Ok, it's been a long time coming, but in the second week of January this was completed, and delivered to the bundle of joy for whom it was made.

And I likes it a lot, I does.

 

Front

  

Back

It's only a cot quilt, and it has a couple of wobbly bits, but I really enjoyed doing the pieced back and it looks lovely tucked over and around the child.

I've found recently though that I can't actually sew at the moment - my brain isn't up to it.   So I'm knitting, because I can pick it up and put it down with no effort.

Eventually, it will be a scarf.  Although I have unpicked it all since this photo was taken.  I thought I could live with the mistake in it, and I can't. *shrug*  I'm also making it half as wide again as the pattern says, because I want it for school as a wrap.

So that's what I'm up to lol! How about you?

Donna's quilt (2)

Well, you know how it is.

You don't mean to, and then you find that at 6am you are ironing HSTs instead of trousers.  How did that happen? I don't know.  But the quilt is laid out now and looks like.......

I think it's going to be ok!  I have to work out how to proceed - I've never made one like this.  I'm guessing it's into pairs, then strips, then join the two strips together.  After that it'll just need a border, probably in cream, then batting and backing and we're done.

I likes it though.

I have 4 more baby quilts to make.  Before the end of January.

No problems....... ;-)

Oh, and I joined in the Jolly Holly Blog bingo which looks to be a lot of fun!

Shower and school

Off I go.......

Donna's quilt (1)

So tonight I suddenly know what I want to do for Donna's daughters baby quilt.  Unlike quilting for fun, this one has a deadline.  Baby is due in January.  Donna would like her quilt by the end of term.  That's Friday.

*gulp*

But it's ok.  I have a plan.

It's a good plan, sketched on a whiteboard.  I like it.   The materials are these:-

 They were on my table, now they are cut.  What is in the big bag behind them?

You may well ask, Dear Reader, you may well ask.

I had some kind of brain melt down after the inquest, and bought 20 square metres of batting.  20.

I know I'll use it, but still......

Anyway, this is as far as I have got with the quilt tonight.  Cut 5inch squares, made HST's from them, using a colour with a pale pale pink gorgeousness.

I was going to iron them tonight, but I'm a tad tired, so I'll leave it I think!

I found the camera!

Ah, that's better!

Except it's sideways.

Oh well.  One can't have everything!

Christmas centre

At night, apparently.

To fill in the discerning reader, the camera is at school.  This should be a 4 patch block with poinsettia fabric, red background, white flowers, white background, red flowers.  Green surround, white surround.

This phone is not good at pictures.  But I made this tonight.  I suppose in about 3 hours?  Not bad for a beginner!

New leeeeetle sewing machine

I have treated myself to a new little sewing machine.

It is very lovely, a Janome, like my other one, but the Jem Platinum 720, rather than my big 8770.

It's nummy.

Right now though, I am writing addresses on advent calendars.

Well.  On the envelopes.  ON the calendars themselves would be silly.  Really.

Hope springs...

... eternal.

Today is 3 months since Rich was killed on his bike. I had meant to make this black and white quilt as a symbol of how I feel, and I just couldn't stay in black and white, in came that sunshine yellow! It needs quilting and so forth, but I liked it so much, I had to share!

The pattern came from Patchwork and Quilting.






It's lots of sewing and slashing, but came together really quickly.



Here it is, the top finished on the floor.


Now I just need to back it and quilt it (probably by hand) and then we'll see where we go. But when I went to get more yellow, I accidentally bought 2 more fat quarter packs....

Oops..... :=)