Baby Quilts Series 1/10 - 4/10

Two railroad quilts, each made using a jelly roll from Spotlight (January)

My aim this year is to make 10 cot-size quilts, by June, to present as a gift to Southland parents of babies in the neo-natal unit in Dunedin Hospital - in honour of it being ten years since Kieran was a patient there (he had to be delivered 12 weeks early and weighed just 855g/1 lb 14 oz).

The parents will need to be Southlanders - they will have to have their phone number listed in the Southland phone book.  I know how scary it can be to be sent to Dunedin to have a premature baby delivered and just want to acknowledge this by having some quilts there for parents to choose from. 

Pirate teddy bears quilts - the pictures were already printed on the fabric in a quilt-like pattern so I simply had to put the layers together and quilt 'in the ditch' between each picture (March).

They can use the quilts for kangaroo cuddles with their baby (or babies if it's twins) or can keep them to use at home, when the baby is big enough to go home, as a cot-quilt or kick mat.

I am trying to make the quilts in sets of two as I know there may be twins born so some parents may wish to select two quilts that are similar.

Giraffe Series 2/20 - 6/20

 Check out the next five of my series!  The giraffes have been very popular and I have actually sold three!

Alice Sheat, a relieving teacher at school, bought the green one for her daughter Ruby.

One of my pupils bought the black and white one at the car-boot sale held by the Year Sixes.

Kath J bought the pink one for her colleague who collects giraffes.

I have made these two this weekend - one will be to send to ex-staff member Lisa Bankshaw who recently had a baby girl - I will let the staff decide which one we will put into the gift basket that we are sending.

Will have to wait and see what happens to the one that gets left behind!

Cushions

Two of our young friends both headed off to boarding school this year and I wanted to give them each something nice to have in their rooms.

For Caitlin, off to school in Dunedin, I used the peace angel pattern and made it into a small cushion.

 For Meg, heading for her first year as a boarder in Invercargill, I made a small cross-stitch into a cushion as well.

 

2009 Paddington Bear quilt

I found this cute Paddington Bear fabric and made it into a easily machine-patched small cot quilt of about 1m square at the end of 2009.

In 2010 I gave it to my newborn nephew Bain for use as a pram blanket or kick mat etc. Gotta love Paddington Bear!

I don't have a walking foot yet for my sewing machine (it is on order) so hopefully that will help me get rid of the bunching that happens when I quilt with the machine (I get another lady to quilt anything I do that's bigger than this).

I used a pattern from Spotlight and have got a xmas fabric quilt that I made in tandem, but will quilt that once I get the walking foot.