Spring to Finish

All in all, I got two items finished. The baby quilt I from my last post and this - a deconstructed quilt.

I made a simple quilt using squares of Fresh Cut by Heather Bailey and a cream muslin but once it was all together I didn't like it. It made it to a half finished quilt top two years ago before it got rolled up and hidden in the cupboard. In a clean up two weeks ago I decided it was time to unpick it all and start again from the beginning. I'm going to replace the cream I was using with a white on white polka dot (I have yet to buy) and then make a quilt using disappearing nine patch blocks.

All this unpicking has actually made me a bit behind on my One a Day quilt along, but that is soon to change after I received a HUGE bag of scraps from a friend, delivered by my Mum on Friday.
There were some pretty cool fabrics in there and I can't wait to start sorting them out! I have already picked out some of my favorites and that the little pile sitting beside the bag.

(And I will have a photo of the baby quilt soon, I took some photo's tonight but the colours were all off so I'm going to need some real light to take a good photo of it!)

Binding Away

My Auntie asked me to make a little baby quilt for a girl being born in July. I bought the fabric last Tuesday (well some of it) and got to work. By Thursday it was pinned and by Saturday it was quilted. Now I am up to the slowest part of all for me - the binding. I cut it out Monday, attached it Tuesday and now I'm just slowly stitching away.

No matter when I finish there are two things I already know - this is the quickest I have ever made a quilt from start to finish, and I will finally finished something for Spring to Finish! Its good timing too because the temperature has been dropping into the 'teens at night, and here I am, stitching away with a little quilt on my lap and socks on my feet.

Nothing but scraps

Here are my nine patches for Crazy Mom's Quilts Block a Day Quilt Along.


I definitely need more green. There are a couple of blast's from the past in there with the pansy fabric and a couple of others that came from my Mum's stash ages ago but I really like them all together.

Working On and a Give Away!

I started cleaning up my sewing room on Saturday. This might have been a big mistake because right now it's messier than when I started. Anyway..

I came across the box that was holding all my yo-yo's and decided I might work on it for a little while. Last time I spoke of them, I had them sitting on my coffee table. Shortly after that they all got packed up into the box again. Until last night. I pulled out the piece of black fabric I had about a quarter of them attached to. Now I have just under half attached.


And I found a few more floating around so it might end up bigger than I expected. Oh, and not only did I lay them all out, I sewed the first few together. The bottom left hand corner is actually joined. The hold up now is that I want to get some more thread colours to blend in. I started with two shades of grey and white which works great on the blue's I started on but I'm up to that red patch, so I want to get some red and also green to use on those colours.

Finally, to celebrate the launch of a new Australian Quilting website, I'm joining the Blog Party Giveaway! Leave a comment and your in the running for 4 fat quarters, posted straight to you! I haven't actually chosen them yet, so you'll get a say in what you get!

Good Luck!

Edit: I have been checking up on the people who have entered and so far a large number of people have no email address for me to contact them if they win - they either have none attached to their blogger profile or have their profile set to private. Please leave an email address if you are one of these people otherwise I wont be able to contact you if you win!

Kitty Cat Quilt Top

Well, I'm a little late for what I planned on finishing this for, but better late than never. This has been sitting with the center pieced together for a while now, just waiting for some borders.


I was originally going to use a different stripe for the inner border, and had made it to the ironing board to iron it when I realised I didn't have as much as I thought. On the way back to the fabric cupboard I walked past the Prints Charming stripe on the floor (oops) in the hallway (oops) and decided to use it instead. And I had been holding on to the the black and white cat print for a while unsure about what to use it for. I love it! The fat smug cat on it always reminds me of this box loving cat.