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Pinwheels in the Forest Quilt
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Can I make a quilt in a weekend? Yes I can!
Hubbie is visiting friends back home and they've just had a baby boy so I asked him if I should make a quilt (while already mentally sorting through my stash to see what delights I could use!) Obviously he said yes and, while he kindly entertained the kids, I created this Pinwheels in the Forest quilt:
I used this tutorial by Rachel of Four Wise Monkeys, only making 9 of the pinwheels for a smaller quilt - it measures approx 54"x 54".
It's a right mix of fabrics! Can't remember them all but there's definitely some Riley Blake 'Fox Trails', Lizzy House 'Outfoxed' (hedgehogs, foxes and more still available here), Joel Dewberry 'Heirloom', Suzanne Ultman 'Critter Community' and Rashida Coleman-Hale 'I Heart' in there. The background and sashing is Kona snow. It was all pieced using Aurifil 50wt (didn't even have to change the bobbin!) and quilted with a Coats thread in very pale baby blue.
The back is pieced because I didn't have anything else that was quite right. I made a border and then realised it wasn't big enough so had to add another strip of solid to one edge, which makes the panel of Fox Trails off centre but oh well, it's still cute!
I did some basic straight line quilting using my nifty walking foot guide with the rawl plug!
I stayed up too late last night hand sewing the binding - I was tempted to machine it but honestly I cannot get it to look nice at all and wasn't up for faffing about!
Fingers crossed they'll like it!
I'm very excited because today I signed up for the Low Volume Swap at Making Rebecca Lynne - seriously go here and sign up
Check out the Flick group for the gorgeous fabrics already part of the charm swap. SO LUSH!! You can visit the group if you have any questions, Rebecca is really helpful! Also Helen at Archie the Wonderdog posted some amazing examples of what you can do with low volume fabrics. I've seen a few of these around and I just adore them - especially when they are contrasted with bright modern fabrics.
Rebecca is super organised, she's planned everything really well and I'm positive this will be amazing swap! It's a fantastic way to get at least 112 charms of beautiful fabric. I know I can't wait to get mine :)
Did you miss me? T.T.T. 1st December, Fresh Sewing Day!
Can you believe it's December?! How exciting! Here's a mosaic of my November makes that I'm linking up to Lynne's Fresh Sewing Day at Lily's Quilts, hop over and join in.
I thought I'd done more but since we've been hit by flu I guess I haven't finished as many things as I'd like. I'm definitely going to remedy that this month :)
**Warning** I've got quite a bit to show you so this may be another long one but I'll keep it as short as I can ;)
Firstly I received some lovely post last week:
These are the goodies I got sent from Korbond as a giveaway on The Sewing Directory. I have to say I'm thrilled with everything I've used so far, those scissors are particularly fantastic! I know it will all be very useful and it arrived so quickly. These products are available at my local Tesco so I'm sure you can get hold of them easily.
Then I got the MOST AMAZING package from the wonderful Madame Samm that I won on her slightly bonkers and extraordinary Wantobe Quilters giveaway. She truly is spectacular! She was more than generous and I'm still grinning as I plot what I will make:
Then there was one more package. I took part in a rainbow colour charm swap with the lovely Robyn at Bolo Heads. She had a hard time of it with wrong addresses, drop outs etc but she did great :) and I'm delighted with my charms! This was my first swap and I will definitely do one again (hopefully with Robyn if she'll let me!!). It's so exciting looking through all those different fabrics and I already have 2 quilts planned with mine :)
There are some that are fugly and some that are pretty and some that I downright love:
I don't know what fabric this is but I think it's bright, retro feel is just perfect! I'm saving these until I've got all my Christmas projects done.
I'm getting there with my Drunkard's Path QAL and am quilting it in concentric circles after being inspired by Heather at Crafting... and her gorgeous cushion! I've been using my bloody quilting guide thingy again but this time I've got it sussed:
No matter what I did it wriggled around so I'm using bobbins (can add or take them away depending on the width of quilting required) and a rawl plug (it's that grey thing sticking out on the left of the foot) and this time it's going nowhere. I think I'm a genius. I might get a copyright.
I'm also making progress on a quilt for my friend's son, using fabric I've shown you before (sorry for the sideways shot):
This came together fast thanks to chain piecing! And is now basted, ready to be quilted. Anyone got any suggestions for a name for this quilt?
Last week was my daughter's birthday, she's officially terrible 2 (I'm shaking my head in despair), my Auntie gave me these fun fabrics to make things with! I'm going for two cushions with the Hungry Caterpillar fabric (eventually!) and a great DIY advent calendar:
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| I adore this funny fabric holding man more than I can express |
Well last night I realised it was the end of November so I stayed up and made this!
It was very easy to make and really fun! It's all filled with treats now, so the son will be happy when he gets back from school! I just hope I've hung it high enough that they can't steal them all!!
I even practiced some fmq and did some swirly loopy quilting :)
This has totally got me feeling all Christmassy!! So much so I'm going to go get the decorations out of the attic and decorate this afternoon :) Thinking of Christmas, head over to makingrebeccalynne for Thursday Think Tank, she has some great ideas to share!
p.s. wish me luck on that stupid attic pull out ladder, I always keep my mobile in my pocket when I go up there in case I fall. What I'll do for decorations?!
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