Pretty Medallion

 

A small lap quilt that I worked on in the April school holidays (while confined to the sewing room with a mild dose of Covid!) 

The pattern is the Medallion quilt from Cheryl Brickey's 'Just One Charm Pack' pattern book, and measures 39.5" square.

I used a charm pack of Papillon fabrics (by 3 Sisters for Moda)  and a tone-on-tone white/cream print, all from my stash.

I was able to practise free-motion quilting of some different motifs with my Bernina Q20 longarm (so happy!) and when it was all finished I tucked the quilt away until the end of May when it was given as a thank you gift to our wonderful neighbour (and dog-sitter) Janet Pollard when we moved house.

I gave feathers a try in the outer border...

...and did some other motifs in the white areas.

Leo's African Safari

Now that it has finally been gifted, I can share one of my finishes from a couple of months ago...

Leo's African Safari is a large cot quilt/small lap quilt for Leoden, the newborn son of our nephew Louis and his partner Ren.

The pattern is 'Looking Glass' by Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs and the quilt finishes at about 36" x 40".

I used an 'In the Wild' charm pack that I had purchased recently from Quilter's Lane, along with a beige linen-look background fabric from my stash.

For the quilting I did loops across the horizontal strips.

Springtime Mosaic

This was the second version of the Meadow Mist Designs Mystery Quiltalong for 2019-2020. 

It is a single bed size and finished at 58” x 69”. 

All the fabrics came from my stash. I had to use two fabrics for the green as I 

didn’t quite have enough of just one.

I free-motion quilted it. Here is my planning sketch: 

The backing is also pieced from stash fabrics. 

At the moment the quilt is waiting for the right home...

someone (who is not a cat) will turn up eventually! 

UPDATE: 2022 gifted to great-niece Laura Joy Taylor in the Hawkes' Bay; here is photo from the day she received it (I also delivered an Irish Chain quilt to her older sister, Lily).

My Mystery Mosaic

This was one version of the MeadowMist Designs Mystery Quiltalong for 2019-20 

(I had pulled two lots of fabric from my stash and couldn't decide between them, so made two!)

The quilt finished at 58" x 69" and is such a lovely, vibrant colour scheme.

The quilting was kept fairly simple, with some echo quilting and a geometric point-to-point design in the larger black shapes.  The backing was also from my stash.

I had the top finished back in February but did not get the chance to quilt it until during the 

Covid lockdown and had no idea what I would do with it when finished.

The day I finished binding it, I heard news of one of my awesome pupils from last year, Jesse, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and undergoing chemotherapy treatments. When I saw the quilt drying on the floor of my lounge the next morning, he was the first person I thought of and I knew I wanted to gift it to him, so I appliqued his name to the bottom edge.

Update: 27th June 2020: Jesse had the wonderful news this week that his chemo treatments 

have been successful and he has been given the all clear! Well done Jesse!!

Ziggy Zaggy and Mini Mosaic

Catching up on some projects from January- March (now that I finally have photos!)

Two neonatal bassinet quilts made with leftovers from one of my Meadow Mist Designs' Mystery Mosaic quiltalong projects from last year (still to be quilted, photos to come.)

Ziggy Zaggy is 19" x 23.5"

Mini Mosaic is 18.5" x 21.5"

Mystery Mosaic quilt top Version B

Here is the second of my two quilt tops of the Mystery Mosaic Quiltalong from 2019-20; hopefully I will get them quilted in the next few weeks...made with fabrics from my stash...

Fabric selection: I ended up using a second green solid as well 

to help make the right number of blocks.

Mosaic Mystery quilt top A

Here is the first of my two quilt tops of the Mystery Mosaic Quiltalong from 2019-20; hopefully I will get them quilted in the next few weeks...made with fabrics from my stash...

Fabric selection: 

Sundrops for Sue

I began making this large lap quilt (59"square) last year, not sure who would end up with it, but knowing I would figure it out eventually; I got it to the binding stage in January...

...then, with the passing of my Uncle Alister this March, I knew straight away 

that this would become a gift for his wife, Aunty Sue. 

I spent a LOT of time at their house as a child - it was pretty much a second home - 

so I wanted to give her something special.

The prints are from a layer cake of 'Sundrops' by  Corey Yoder for Moda. 

The prints are a mixture of florals and polka dots in a range of corals, greys, lemons and greens.

This is a 'sister' quilt to the auction quilt I made last year.

The pattern is 'Cake Slices' by Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs.

I quilted a mixture of ribbons, echo diagonals, and straight lines.

The binding is a gorgeous coral fabric, with the backing being pieced from 

a white/grey eyelashes print and a soft green words print.

Aunty Sue was really thrilled - it went straight onto her bed!

'Kia ora' to all my visitors via Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky party! 

Have a lovely Easter!