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...