Lotsa Squares

An old childhood friend that I don't see much any more is due to have a baby boy soon.

Seeing as I'm so drawn to pinks and florals I had to make a new quilt to post off. I've had this rainbow bundle sitting there for a while waiting for just the 'thing'. I decided this was it and made my squares 3.5, 6.5 and 12.5 inches.





I got the idea from here: http://moderndayquilts.tumblr.com/post/5832184747/one-simple-shape-makes-a-great-quilt-sidewalk

But I just made up my own block sizes and did one less diagonal of large blocks and an extra one of medium.

Yet to choose backing and binding and will probably quilt on the diagonal.

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Lone Star Cushion

I got to do a bit of 'finishing off' sewing yesterday. I've had to put stuff aside whilst I worked on bunting for our school fundraiser. That's now completed so I finished off my Lone Star. I turned it into a cushion.








The backing fabric was actually left over from another project. I bought this lily fabric (below) to back this quilt topper I made a few weeks ago. There wasn't enough so I also bought the lighter one to add a strip down each side. This is off to the quilters this week.


Our local photo comp entries were due this week. I entered these pics in the following categories:


Burst of colour (above)


Burst of colour (above)


Transport (above)


Emotion (above)


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Lone Star

I decided to have a crack at a lone star quilt. This was really extending my quilting capabilities to the max but it looked so pretty.

I tried one, but didn't pin or sew well enough. I decided to scrap it and start again.




Second time round I made it smaller and went a lot more carefully.

Cluck Cluck Sew do a Lone Star tutorial, but I decided to use this one and really test my skills by trying Y seams for the first time:

http://hopefulhomemaker.com/wp/2013/04/01/lone-star-block-tutorial/




The green back ground hasn't come up very well in this photo because its night time. Its a much nicer apple green than shown here.

It's lucky I've decided to make it a cushion because it doesn't lie very flat! I'm also thinking about adding a row of prairie points round the outside.



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Milly's Lightening Quilt

My sister committed herself to making a quilt for each of her 6 nephews on their 10th birthday. Angus's was a bit late but it was worth waiting for this beauty.


Milly did a lightening pattern because of Angus's love of wild weather. She also made a matching pillowcase with left over scraps.





Both Angus and Squish think its pretty fabbo!


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Bec's Quilt

My friend, Karen, and I joined forces to sew a quilt for a little girl we know who was in a bad car accident recently.

We backed the pinwheels with minky so that she would have something soft to snuggle up with.









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Scrap Jar Stars

Thanks to a spot of blog sharing with a fellow quilter I came across this tutorial:

http://alittlebitbiased.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/scrap-jar-stars-tutoroial-giveaway.html?m=1

I had a little go of one this afternoon. It was lots of fun!



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Pants, pants, pants!

A few of the Mums at playgroup have been admiring Williams pants lately so we had a bit of a sewing bee so everyone could make some.

I won't post everyone else's here's without sir permission, but these are the ones I made for William. I bought the fabric a while ago and then it was too short so I had to add the contrasting cuff. I think it makes the pants actually.








William wore these 'pants' all day. He insisted they were his, but they are actually size 10 shorts belonging to one of his brothers. Dig it Will.I.Am.


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