Scrappy Birthday Cards

 At my school, our senior leadership team (I am the Deputy Principal) likes to acknowledge staff on their birthdays, and I am in charge of organising the cards.

I saw this style of card on a social media post and wanted to make them for our staff.

Level Four Lockdown quilt

This was my main Covid-lockdown project in the couple of weeks holiday between 

'online school' terms. I had been planning to make it for a while - during January/February 

I had spent time sewing the triangle scraps (leftover from making various other blocks 

and binding in the past three years) onto the corners of 2.5" white squares. 

There are two different whites here - a plain sold and a tone-on-tone print.
I think it works out at about 390 squares in total?

I then spent a day or two creating the rows, following the instructions in Sunday Morning Quilts 

by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison (the Up, Up and Away pattern).

For the quilting I did the same as the quilt in the book, with straight lines running vertical and horizontal through the on-point squares.

I love the variety of colours and prints - they remind me of previous quilt projects that I've made.

The backing is yardage from my stash.

The quilt measures 43" x 54" and I used the black and white dotty binding that I really love.

It has definitely been popular in the lounge as the nights get cooler!

Catch Me! baby quilt

Keeping up with my 'rule' of using leftover fabrics from larger projects to make 

neonatal bassinet quilt, this little quilt was made from scraps from 'Cat and Mouse'.

It has both the cat print, and the mice print.

I used an all over large stipple for quilting, and the backing is a pink ditsy-floral.

Cat and Mouse lap quilt

'Cat and Mouse' is one of my Covid-19 Level Four alert lockdown projects 

and it measures 37" square.

 I have been making the black/white or black/teal 2.5" squares at various times over the past few months, from leftover triangles (or 'ears') cut off when making binding or flying geese type blocks.

I decided to use this cool cat print that has been in my stash for a while, 

and the outer border is just a polka dot.

The scrappy triangle-corner squares were an idea from Amanda Jean Nyberg's book 

'Sunday Morning Quilts' (she is known as Crazy Mom on blogger and Instagram).

The backing is made from a cute little mice print that has also been in my stash, and a teal print.

My cat, Rumbles, had to be nosy about it all, of course...

...and my shadow, Bess, is never far away either!

Sharing my project with Michelle's Beauties Pageant for this week - hi everyone!