Allsorts of Sweet

 

This is a 43.5" sq lap quilt of my own design, made in April with leftovers from an earlier quilt. 

Being winter, it had taken a bit of time to find the right combination of good weather, the right light, and having a handy helper to hold it up, before I could get photos (and these aren't very wonderful, but the quilt certainly is!).

The 'stack of coin' strips are meant to invoke the idea of licorice allsort lollies - yummy!

I decided to applique Quinn's name across the top of each column.

I used simple straight line quilting, and the backing is flannel from my stash as well, with a black and white spotted binding.

It was finally gifted this week to little Quinn Stanway, second daughter of my former colleague, Jo Stanway - Quinn's older sister, Piper, was gifted a similar (but different) quilt in 2019.

Sharing this gorgeous creation (and the quilt too, of course) with all the wonderful quilting crowd that follow Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky party! Kia ora!

Sweet Wonderful You

 

This is a small lap quilt that I have gifted this week as a baby gift; it measures 44.5" x 45.5".

I created half square triangles from a junior jelly roll of 

Kimberly Kight's 'Smol' fabrics for Ruby Star Society 

- I love the apples on it!

It was nice to use some different colours, especially the blue solid for the background, 

and I chose a pink geometric print for the binding.

To quilt it I used the wavy line setting on my machine, with a walking foot, 

and simply made my way along all the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.

The jelly roll HSTs technique was the same as used for three quilts in 2017, 

from the 'To the Point' pattern by Amy Gibson.

The backing is a navy and white print - everything came from my stash.  

Brooke is the third daughter of my teaching colleague Aleisha Schrader.

Longtime Friend lap quilt

 

'Long-time Friend' is a 48.5"sq lap quilt, created as an 80th gift for a very dear family friend, Jean Neilson (who has not seemed to age at all in the last twenty years so it seems strange to think of her as having reached this milestone).

The weather was not great for photos (and my handy helper wasn't available for holding it up anyway) so I had to take some indoor photos before I wrapped it up to take to the celebration.

I used a layer cake and the four-at-once method for making half-square triangles (layer two squares RST, sew around the outside edges then cut in half diagonally in both directions).  Super quick! 

Then I simply had to arrange them in whatever layout I chose...I went with making a diamond pattern...

The layer cake was purchased earlier this year and features the Maureen Cracknell 'Homebody' range - beautiful deep navy, tans and peaches.

I quilted with curvy lines in each direction like a wonky checkerboard.

For the backing I used a cream fabric from my stash which has printed gold birds all over it.

Linking up with Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday - kia ora, everyone!