Elephants Baby Quilt

 Completed this baby quilt with some simple straight line quilting; 

was a Spotlight pattern called Tweet Christmas quilt;

measures 48"x56"

The binding looks very bright in the lovely Southland Spring sunshine!

 I ADORE elephants so could not resist this fabric from Spotlight.

I kept the quilting simple as wanted to keep the quilt nice and soft.

Loving purple and teal! Two bags...

Bess just had to be in on the action (after all, Rumbles was in the last post!)

The satchel on the left is from a pattern called Handy Satchel by Catherine McMurray, published in Australian magazine Handmade (vol 27 no 9 2010). The bag on the right is from the Friends Hanging Out Together pattern ( I didn't do the stitchery from the pattern) in Creating Country Threads vol 10 no 12 2010.

This bag was made for Kieran's girlfriend at the time, Tyla Adams. There is a pocket on the front. 

This bag is about 26 x 36 cm in size.

The satchel was just a spare bag, made so I could try out the pattern - I sold it in 2014 at the annual car-boot sale at school to one of my pupils, Kimberley Clearwater.

Has a pocket on the back.  The satchel is about 40 x 43 cm in size. Fabrics were bought at Spotlight (the hearts) and the rest are from Kits n Things. 

Linking up with Amanda Jean's Friday Night Sew-in...

Batik jellyroll race lap quilt

Finished the second batik quilt (after moving the cat off it - he obviously felt he needed some love while I was stitching the binding on!)

 

So good to be able to complete all the free motion quilting on my new machine without having to stop all the time to re-thread it (as my old machine was doing!). I did a leaf motif all over, with a wide stipple in the border.

 

Linking up with Leah Day's FMQ Friday and Amanda Jean's Finish It Up Friday!

Elephant baby quilt!

A quilt for a baby made from elephant fabrics to be exact rather than a quilt for a baby elephant! And my first quilt-top on my new machine - exciting!!!

It was easy easy easy...about 30 mins to cut the pieces, about an hour of sewing last night and about two hours tonight.  Fabrics were from Spotlight and the quilt pattern was called Tweet Christmas quilt; it was in a Spotlight Get Creative Quarterly magazine. 

I love elephants so couldn't resist this range. I will have to find a stuffed toy elephant pattern and make it too! I am sure I have one in the folder somewhere.