Allsorts and Rainbow Bars trio

Another catch-up from 2023-24, with three lap quilts using up leftover strips - one of these having been made in December 2023, and the other two being created and finished during 2024.

I had made all these licorice allsort-themed strips (allsorts are a lolly/sweet/candy) back in 2018 for a farewell quilt for a workmate, and had overestimated how much I would need.

So I had enough for five more quilts in the past six years! Two baby quilts (for Piper Stanway and for Quinn Stanway), and then these three to finally use up all the strips...I will do a separate post for each one...

2024: All Out of Allsorts

2024: Rainbow Bars of (All)Sorts

2023: Allsorts For You

Here is a pic with some 'rainbow bars' and 'allsorts' - you can see my inspiration for the colours and stripes (and quite a few were eaten during the making of these quilts, in the interests of research of course!)

Raspberry Fling and a Summer Spin!

 

Another duo of bassinet quilts, made from leftovers and orphan blocks from this 2012 Moda Designer Mystery BOM quilt, to be donated to the NeoNatal Unit at Southland Hospital.

Raspberry Fling 19" x 20"

Both have a daisy flannel backing from my stash, and a black and white stripe binding that always looks so modern and fresh.

Summer Spin 19" x 20"

Monsters bassinet quilts

 More bassinet quilts make earlier this year, using up stash fabrics and leftovers/scraps, and offcuts of flannel. I was able to get five quilts using up this monster print...

I kept the quilting quick and simple with straight lines, zigzags, ribbons and loops, on my Elna 200 domestic machine, using thread colours to match the fabrics, and they all have a black and white stripe binding.

'A Mixture of Monsters' 18" x 22"

'Monster Mix' 18" x 21.5"

'A Mix of Monsters' 18" x 22"

'Mixed-Up Monsters' 18" x 19.5"

'Monster Mix-Up' 17" x 20"

Pinks and Blues From Me 2 U

Another 2024 quilt project, made with some orphan jellyroll strips left over from this large jellyroll quilt and rescued from languishing in the drawers.

I joined the strips then made 4-at-a-time HST blocks which are very versatile and can be played around with in all sorts of designs depending on how you lay them out; I chose the diamond layout:

It measures 27.5" x 32" so is cot-size (or knee-rug/small lap quilt) and I decided to do some simple straight line quilting with my Elna 200 domestic machine.

The binding was a blue multi-stripe from my stash, and the backing is a flannel that was also in my stash.

Little Friends bassinet quilts

Some catch-ups from this year - some bassinet quilts were created in the April school holidays after I had a big tidy-up of my fabric stash, and decided to use up a heap of off-cuts/leftovers of flannel by making backings for neonatal unit bassinet quilts, then creating tops for them out of scraps or other leftovers or stash fabrics.

This is Little Friends and measures 18.5" x 22.5"

The Big Day

This large lap quilt is made with the 'Cabin Fever' pattern (by Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl, and Amber of Gigi's Thimble), using a fat quarter pack of 'Bedtime Stories' by Elizabeth Chappell for Art Gallery Fabrics.

The fabric has lovely soft colours and cute garden motifs - my favourite is the little mice on the gold/tan print.

The quilt measures 55"x56" as I made it bigger than the pattern version by using more than five fat quarters and making extra blocks to enlarge the quilt size.

I quilted it on my Bernina Q20 longarm (10ft frame) with channel locks to help me make straight lines.

It was completed in October and gifted to my work colleague, Sarah Botting, to mark the occasion of her September wedding to Matt Mclean.

As with many of my quilts, if I don't use a black and white strip for the binding, I use a black and white polka dot. The backing is a sky-blue gingham.

The quilt was given cat-approval by Gizmo...