Squarosaurs quilt

This small twin bed quilt (or super large lap quilt) is a finish from the Easter holidays, and will be winging its way across the Tasman to become the new bed quilt in Brisbane for the son of one of my former pupils that I still keep in touch with!

His mum Leah requested something with animals or Pooh Bear, but nothing in my stash took my fancy (or I didn't have enough to make a twin quilt with it) - I found these cute dinosaurs at Spotlight and matched them up with some coordinating prints and solids.

The pattern is 'Scattered Squares' and is a free layer cake pattern on the Moda website, designed by Melanie from the A Bit of Scrap Stuff blog.

This version measures 47.5" x 56.5" - it was originally a bit too wide for my 5ft longarm frame, and I really wanted to quilt it on there, so I halved the blocks on each side and the ends and used a couple of those cut-offs for the backing.

I used ruler work to quilt straight line borders in the square-in-square blocks, and free motioned large stipple in the plain squares.

The binding is a sage green stripe.

We move house at the end of May and I am looking forward to having quite a few new quilt-photo locations in my backyard at the new house!

With Hugs and Kisses

 

Oops, I didn't record where I got the pattern from for this, sorry; if anyone recognises it, let me know! I think it might be from Make Modern (e-magazine) and I will jump onto their website index later and update this post if I find that to be the case.

This quilt measures 55" square and was a very belated wedding gift for my cousin's son and daughter in law, Reece and Charlotte McGowan, who married in April 2021.

This photo below shows the colours as more true (the photo above is a bit dark as was in the shadow); I have not had much luck this year with getting 'good' photo days.

I used a fat quarter pack that I'd had for quite a while, from Moda, but I also don't have the details of that (my record keeping for this quilt project was seriously lacking!)

I used leftovers to piece together the backing, and a polka dot print for the binding.

30+ lap quilt

 

This is a 40" x 42" lap quilt that I made at the start of 2022 with leftovers from this quilt (I am finally catching up on some blogging/scrapbooking!)

Called 30+ due to having 30 plus blocks that needed used.

Have straight line echoed inside the plus blocks, with a free-motioned orange peel motif in the white sections; done using my Elna 200 domestic machine.

The backing is a cool rabbit print that was in my stash and had just the right hint of orange.

Not sure who the eventual owner will be, but they will turn up at some stage!

Mataura Lad for Uncle John

 I finished this one up before Christmas so I could gift it to my Uncle, affectionately known to most people by both of his given names, John Malcolm. Uncle John had a life-changing stroke in 2020, meaning that he had to leave Mataura, the town he had lived in for all his life, to move into a rest-home in Gore. 

I used the walking foot to quilt it with wavy vertical lines, some intersecting, to represent the flow of the Mataura River that runs through the town.

Maroon and gold are the colours for Mataura sports and school teams, so I wanted to use them in a light lap quilt for him; I used a dark navy for the third colour. The rest-home is always well-heated, so I've only used a flannel as the batting.

On the backing I have appliqued Uncle John's initials (which were also my initials before I took my married surname) and used some leftover blocks. 

The quilt is the Zella pattern by Sarah Campbell, which is in issue #40 of Make Modern e-magazine and it measures 52"sq.

Splashdown!

 

This was a recent finish about four weeks ago...I've finally found time to get the photos posted.

The charm-pack pattern is 'Splashdown' by Christina Cameli from Maywood Studio, 

and it was #9 on my APQ UFO Challenge list for 2021.

I used a charm pack of batiks that has been in my stash for a few years, waiting for the right project.  

It is mostly made from half-square triangles - super easy!

The lap quilt measures 40" square and it came together really easily, 

and I did some straight-line quilting with the walking foot to finish it off.

I did a self-binding with the backing, which is a purple/teal batik, again from my stash.

The quilt has been gifted to my dear Aunty Lois, up in Masterton, who has been living with MS for many years and I hope it is a little something that brightens her room a bit.

Linking up with Cheryl's (Meadow Mist Designs) Favourite Finish linky party - and also with Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky party - kia ora everyone!

Vanilla Kisses and Wedding Wishes

This is a double-bed quilt I made in December as a wedding gift for my cousin Simon McGowan and his partner Kate Pavitt, who married (on a VERY hot summer day) in Wanaka on the 14th of January 2021.

Kate had requested whites/creams/off-whites, so I had been collecting fabrics since about September, to use in a pattern called 'Out of the Box' that I had found in my stash of patterns. It had been ripped out of a Better Homes and Gardens magazine (May 2019).

The quilt measures 64" x 72" - the photos aren't great for colour as the weather had been fairly ho-hum during the start of January and I simply had to take the photos at the last minute, just before we headed away to Wanaka for the wedding.

I quilted with a simple wavy 'check' and the binding was made with leftover strips of the different fabrics. 

The backing is yardage of a tone on tone print in a soft white/cream.

Joining up with Cheryl's Favourite Finish Monthly Link-up so I can share this with my quilting friends around the world!