Head in the Clouds

(Sorry about photos...I needed to get it to Gore before Xmas and the weather was too yucky for an outside photo session.)

My final quilt finish of 2018...a baby quilt, 44" square and made entirely from my stash.

As you can see I quilted it with diagonal lines. 

The backing is a flannel that was also sitting in my stash.

I used Leah Day's Disappearing Nine-Patch pattern, with the cloud print as the consistent base fabric amongst a selection of other solids/prints. I'd had this cloud print for a while so it was nice to finally have a reason to use it.

This was a commissioned quilt to be gifted to a baby due early in 2019.

Joining up to share with Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky party - 

Happy New Year quilters and crafters!! 

Allsorts For A Good Sort

Does this 60" square quilt remind you of licorice allsorts? I must admit to having eaten a bag (or three) of allsorts while undertaking research (and just for the fact that staring at these colours while sewing them kept making me crave some!)

Allsorts and licorice are a favourite treat for my awesome workmate Jodie Whitson-Morris, 

who is leaving our school after 13 years; she has been a fantastic colleague 

and will be a lifelong friend I am sure. I gifted the quilt to her today at school.

The backing is made from leftover strips and yardage; I quilted with a large, all-over stipple using a variegated thread.

I used a pattern from Amanda Jean Nyberg's quilting book 'No Scrap Left Behind', 

called Scrap Happy Rails as a guideline, but did a few calculations to work out dimensions 

of the strips so I could get a pattern with the colours/black/white sections.

First I made strips which I then sliced and sewed into the blocks.

 It was so much fun to make and I have plenty of leftovers for which I have another plan or two!

Here is Jodie with her quilt - she loves it!

Merry Christmas to all my international visitors via Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday -
I wish you all the best for Christmas and New Year!

Fun Pillows

I think this is my fave! It's 18" square.

It has a gorgeous blue backing made from a furnishing fabric.

With selling at a carboot sale or local garage sale on my plans, I made use of some fat quarter quilting 'sandwiches' that I've made in the past couple of years to practice FMQ designs before doing them on bigger quilts. They each have a zip opening (I use Lia's tutorial).

This is a 12" pillow that I quilted with straight lines (see original quilt here).

I also had some unicorn fat quarters that I thought might make cool pillows.

18" square

16" square

And I also used up some Cars movie furnishing-weight fabric that I'd found in a sale bin. These were one of my 2018 Finish Along fourth quarter goals.

These are each 16" square. Two have a black minky backing, one has a grey curtain fabric backing.

Cute Bunny Pillows

Found this panel of bunnies on the sale shelf at Spotlight a couple of months ago and thought I'd make some pillows...they've turned out even better than I imagined! These were one of my 2018 Finish Along fourth quarter goals.

Sold to Laura McV

Sold to Laura McV

Sold to Paula P

I machine embroidered around the main features of the designs, plus some French knots on the 'whiskers' and hand stitches on one bunny's accents.  I used FMQ for simple quilting as well (echo lines on the double bunny pillow, and a small stipple on the other three, with a stipple on the backing).

I think I almost love the carrots print on the backing more than I love the fronts LOL! 

It was also on the sale shelf too.

They are each about 13" square and have a zippered opening (I always refer to Lia's tutorial).

I intended to sell these at a school car-boot sale but ended up selling two to a workmate and one to a FB friend during the week - so rushed back into Spotlight on Friday to grab another panel (of which my FB friend has already put 'first dibs' on another one!) and spent Saturday afternoon getting them made. (And I didn't go to the carboot sale today after all as the weather was so grotty - have now booked a table at the local playgroup's annual garage sale next weekend, where I'll be inside no matter the weather).

Sharing on Myra's Finished or Not Friday and Amanda Jean's Finish It Up Friday -
as well as Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday - hello! 

Thanks for visiting!