It's Finished!

I finished the quilt this morning. Here is the front (photo taken my my 4 year old son).

My son also took this picture of the back.

I used some of my favourite fabrics on the back and the front. It is the "Twiggy" pattern. It used to be available on the Fat Quarter Shop free pattern page but not anymore. I got it from the Sewn website (it's at the bottom).

In its new home. it fits perfectly. 

I designed and added these borders so we had enough to cuddle up in.

I also added the birds. 

The quilt top was ready over a year ago and has been waiting to be finished. I had planned on finishing it for my birthday last September, but that didn't happen. After we moved to Idaho last month I refound it and decided to finish it for my birthday this year. Again it didn't happen but I did get the borders created, and pinned the leaves and birds in place. When Amy put up her one thing one week challenge I decided to finish it. It seemed rather daunting but I did it. One thing I did differently with this quilt, was when it came time to applique the leaves and birds on, I did so with the batting and quilt top together. When I had to make the final quilt sandwich to quilt the whole quilt, it made it easier to put 2 layers together, instead of making sure all 3 layers were flat. I don't plan on making another big bed quilt anytime soon and it was nice to make something to keep. Tonight will be the first time I will sleep under one of my own quilts. I can hardly wait.

Go check out Amy's blog and take a look at all the other completed challenges.

Another quilt delivered

The quilt I made my niece arrived. She seems happy with it. Enjoy!

Friday Finish

I was able to finish the other baby quilt this week. Should be in the etsy shop by the end of the day.

Ended up doing loopy free motion in the solid squares. I was going to leave them but they needed a little something.

I used one of my favourite fabrics for the back. I only have a bit of it left now and will have to think carefully before I use it.

I had hoped to have my socks done for today but with about 2 inches left I have lost one of my needles. For those who don't know, stitches are on 3 needles and I use the fourth needle to knit. I usually keep the needles in the ball of yarn but since it is almost done, the fourth needle fell out and is now lost. We have looked everywhere and can't find it. Think I will have to go buy myself a second set of needles this weekend so I can finish my sock. I'll probably find the missing needle on Monday.

Tis the Season for Birthdays!

Well, just one birthday in this house. Mine was on Saturday. I received the wall hanging above from my sister. It fits perfectly where she wanted it to. I used thumb tacks to keep it in place.

Each house is a different season. Top is Winter.

Then Spring.

Summer.

And last, but not least, Fall.

The back. Thank you Sarah for a great gift. She used Nanette's cottage block and did a post about the wallhanging on her blog, SewJoy, as well.

My wonderful husband got me a signed picture of me with my favourite author, Margaret Atwood. She told me to "Keep on Truckin'".

There she is, hanging above my quilt table to inspire me.

Are you up for a "little" challenge?

Amy at Amy's Creative Side is challenging quilters to choose one thing to do this week and complete it. It can be something "easy", like pick fabrics for a quilt or "hard", like quilting a whole quilt.

I decided I would go for hard and finally finish this quilt top. I wanted this quilt done a year ago. I would like this quilt on our bed by the end of the month so it seemed like the perfect project for the challenge.

Are you signing up for the challenge?

Friday finishes and some other goodies!

Finished this baby quilt for the etsy shop this week.

After I did the stitch-in-the-ditch around the squares I knew it needed something more, but not free-motion. This is for a baby and I didn't want to weigh it down with heavy quilting. I decided to quilt roughly 1/4 on each side of each seam. I love it. It creates a neat little pattern and the quilt remains light.

The back looks really cool too.

I also made 2 tea wallets. One for me and one for a friend. What do you keep in a tea wallet?

Lady Grey of course.

I also made a tissue "wallet" for the same friend. This is the first time I had made one and it was so easy and quick, I'm thinking everyone might get one for Christmas. They're little and light to ship and who doesn't need a tissue every once in a while. I used the bright fabric so it would be easy to find in the bottom of a purse, hopefully.

Onto the goodies! This box overflowing with selvages is headed off to someone special. There are some other surprises underneath the selvages but she'll have to wait to see those.

String Theory

4 more string blocks done.

Put with the 3 from the other day, they make row 5.  I have plans to make another 5 rows, but now I'm not sure how big I want it to get and trying to decide where I want to use it - extra quilt for the bed or for cuddling on the couch?

Either way, I have  the remaining 35 foundation blocks ready to go.

My theory - this string quilt will look amazing no matter what size I make it. It's been a lot of fun to create.