Little Leap Frog baby quilt

2016: quilt donated to a fundraiser for local baby Henry McRae and his family - aiming to support them while Henry is a patient in Starship in Auckland.

I love the colours of this, so crisp and fresh!

Made from the Little Leap Frog pattern by Janeen Getz for Projects12.com, using fat quarters from Spotlight and a plain white solid, with a dotty black and white binding (for which I sewed on by machine, to try out Red Pepper Quilts' binding tutorial, which also takes reference from Crazy Mom Quilts' binding tutorial - very useful and easy to to if you want a quick way to get the binding on!)

The back has a green paisley and a black print - can you tell I made the backing as a super-sized version of the leap frog block from the front?

I quilted concentric squares in the leap frog blocks and a variety of free motion patterns in the print blocks - stippling, large pebbles, zigzags and random boxes, depending on the pattern of the print, using a variety of black, green, blue or white thread. 

It's a bit gloomy today, so the colours aren't as bright as in true life - you can see them better in other photos below from when it was being 'built'.  

This is my fourth finish from my to-do list for Adrianne's Finish Along for the second quarter of the year! Not too bad!! Am going to take advantage of the long weekend to get started on the fifth - a Christmas quilt.

And a big hello to any quilting visitors from Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday or Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday!

WIP Little Leap Frog baby quilt

Just waiting on the binding...DONE! Now in the washing machine...watch this space!

2015 finish: Zigzags for Jack - single bed quilt

Created this during the January holidays, completed the quilting during the April holidays...is another finish from my goals for the 2015 Finish Along challenge 2nd quarter that is being hosted by Adrianne from On The Windy Side...

It is a (very belated) 13th birthday gift for Jack, the eldest son of one of my best friends, who this year has headed off to boarding school in Dunedin. His mum Rachel gave me colour options of blue and gold (Otago) or red and black (Canterbury). I figured red and black would look more masculine for this design, which I had been wanting to try for ages!

It is a single bed/twin bed quilt, made using Amanda Jean's Easy Chevron pattern - and it certainly was easy. Fabrics are from Spotlight: a red solid and a black with tone-on-tone spots.

Have just quilted with a simple echo lines that follow the shape of the zigzags and then straight lines across the border from the main panel to the binding.

It is backed with a red/white chevron minky and a strip of black minky (all so soft to touch) which is quite heavy so I just used flannel as the batting. The binding is just the same red solid as used for the chevrons on the front.

62" x 72"

Linking up with my quilting friends at Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday and at Amanda Jean's (Crazy Mom Quilts) Friday Night Finish Up!

WIP

This is waiting to be quilted...(sorry, was an inside, night-time photo)...

It is a lap quilt pattern called 'Little Leap Frog' written by Janeen Getz for the Project12Quilts.com and the fabrics were fat quarters from Spotlight.

Sharing with Freshly Pieced's WIP Wednesday and a Quilting Reader's Garden WIP linky too!