Bloggers Quilt Festival: 60 Plus

Kia ora from the deep south of New Zealand - not quite the bottom of the world but getting pretty close!

My second entry for the Fall Edition of the 2018 Blogger's Quilt Festival is this gift I made for my workmate on her recent significant birthday:

Sorry, inside night lighting photos as I didn't get home until dark, and it's pretty much still dark when I go to work...and I needed to gift it today!

I made this large lap quilt for my favourite netball buddy and world's most awesome office manager, Broni Tumataroa, to celebrate her significant birthday earlier this month. She was in Oz for her birthday, and it was school holidays, so today at work we had a surprise morning tea for her.

I used fat quarters from a bundle of Blueberry Front Yard (by Sandra Clemons for Michael Miller Fabrics) that has been in my stash for a few years, and the pattern is 'Pinwheel Plus' by Cheryl Brickey from her book 'Modern Plus Sign Quilts'.

I quilted it with a free-motion double loop design (as used by the sample in the pattern book).

It measures 58" x 56" and is backed with a deep blue minky, and has a binding of a navy/while spot.

I love the little rabbits that pop up in a couple of the fabrics!

Bloggers Quilt Festival - Summer Buzz Cut

Kia ora from the deep south of New Zealand, down towards the bottom of the world! I'm Jenny and I'm joining in with the 2018 Blogger's Quilt Festival, being hosted by Amy Ellis and with a heap of great prizes up for grabs.

My first share is the Summer Buzz Cut that I made in January for our sitting room sofa:

My first quilt finish of 2018.

Measures 59" square.

This was my summer project and was completely made from my stash!

Is from a pattern called 'Buzzcut' by Me and My Sister Designs which is in their book '12-Pack Quilts' and took me quite a few hours (I watched full seasons of 13 Reasons, The Crown second series, the third series of Reign and the Virgin Queen mini-series on Netflix while cutting, piecing and quilting).  

Here it is with its buddy quilt #summer:

Capers and Frisks

Made this for my friend Joanne's daughter, Lexie Morris, who loves blue.

(Shown on our queen bed)

I used a kit-set from Spotlight for the centre panel, which is made from half-square triangles, and then added the border panels to make it into a single-bed quilt.

I quilted stars into the star-print, used zigzag lines on the diamonds and wavy lines on the dark blue panels. 

I had been saving this bicycle flannel and it was perfect for the backing.

The name, Capers and Frisks, is because I was listening to a podcast of one of my favourite books, Pride and Prejudice, while I was sewing and one of the lines that really took my fancy was something along the lines of "the children showed their happiness with a variety of capers and frisks" which I though fit really well for a child's quilt with the variety of blue fabrics.

Nice and cosy!

Rumbles tried to give it the comfort test when I was taking some photos!

This is one of my goals for the third quarter of the 2018 Finish Along!

Joining up with Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky - 

and also with Myra's Finished or Not Friday linky - 

kia ora everyone!

Owls x5

October 11th, 2019: gifted these five quilts to Barnardos
as part of the Aotearoa Quilters' Cosy Kiwi Kids donation programme.

Throughout the year I have been working on a set of five quilts using up some owl fabric and others from my stash (in an effort to use some of the stash up!) and I plan to give them to Ronald McDonald House at Southland Hospital and to Barnardos for foster children.

Whoo-Whoo Peek-a-Boo

Owl-ways a Hoot!

Owls in the Night

Hoot to You Too!

Owl Spot You Later!

Owls #5 Owl Spot You Later!

Throughout the year I have been working on a set of five quilts using up some owl fabric and others from my stash (in an effort to use some of the stash up!) and I plan to give them to Ronald McDonald House at Southland Hospital and to Barnardos for foster children.

This measures 32.5" x 32" and I used a variety of quilting designs on it.

The backing is a blue multi-spotted cotton.

The full set:

Owls #4 Hoot to You Too!

Throughout the year I have been working on a set of five quilts using up some owl fabric and others from my stash (in an effort to use some of the stash up!) and I plan to give them to Ronald McDonald House at Southland Hospital and to Barnardos for foster children.

It measures 31" x 40" and I used a loopy design for the quilting.

The backing is a blue spotty cotton.

Here is the set: