A quilt for a grand daughter

Grand daughter Chloe loves all things black and white so when it came to her 21 st Birthday I made her a black and white quilt with pops of red her other favourite colour.

She loves dogs too, that's Nala her adopted grey hound and Koda the family cavalier on the couch next to another of my quilts.

And done some quilting as well

Some of the quilting I've been doing as well.

Thank you for looking

Allan's Quilt

 I made this quilt for my brother Allan, who is fighting throat cancer, I thought it might give him some comfort when those horrid cancer treatments have him feeling like doing nothing else but curling up on the couch.

I ordered the Man From Snowy River (his favourite movie), fabric panel online and when it came, I just kept adding borders until I felt it was large enough to snuggle under.

I quilted it with a large stipple design, I wanted the quilt to stay soft and comfy.

Tipsy Tumbler Quilt

 This quilt pattern is called the Tipsy Tumbler and its from Jenny Doan at The Missouri Star Quilt Company. 

I don't have the template required to make this block so I made one from cardboard and used it to trace around and then cutting with a rotary cutter and ruler.

I made the tumblers and sashings in white so that in can be used as signature quilt for a wedding or an engagement or perhaps even a graduation gift .

I have it for sale on Gumtree if anyone is interested.
Gumtree is an Australian online classifieds and community website.

Create Something Today

A quilt for a friend

My friend Angie asked me to make her a quilt for her king single bed, she purchased the beautiful rose fabric and then gave me free reign to chose contrasting fabric and the quilt pattern.

 I needed to come up with a quilt block that didn't involve cutting the rose fabric too small, so started by cutting the roses at 8½ inches square and working my pattern from there.

Here it is on our queen sized bed with a matching cushion.

The backing fabric has light tan roses on a cream background.

Here it is on Angie's own bed.

Allietare Quilt

The Allietare quilt is now all quilted, which I did on my Janome 7700 and is finally finished.

It was my very first Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt and probably wont be my last, I enjoyed the process that much.

Mystery Quilt Allietare, top is finished

Allietare quilt top is finished,

 I have no idea how I am going to baste it as its quite large @ 205 cm x 245 cm and I don't have a floor space big enough to do it on, I could take it over to my daughter Kathy's house and do it there, but it's also the crawling around on the floor to do it that concerns me, I am already quite sore from basting a much smaller one yesterday, maybe I can get my two beautiful granddaughters to help me if  I get myself organised before they go back to school and university.

Bonnie Hunters Mystery Quilt

I'm taking part in my first ever Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt, "Allietare"

Bonnie does such amazing work with scraps and is so very generous with the things she shares.

I also love how she loves her vintage machines and uses them.

I have a collection of 4 Vintage Singers, that I have managed to clean up and get back to sewing beautiful stitches.

I don't have a huge fabric stash so my scrap bins don't have a huge variety in them and I did want to try and do this mystery without having to go shopping, I found I didn't have enough of my constant grey colour early on and just hoped it wouldn't make too much of a difference in the quilt.

Clues one to three.

Clue four.

Clue 5

All the clues ready and waiting to be put together, trying desperately to find time to do that.

putting the blocks together, halfway there .

Quilt Finish

Another quilt finish. pattern is Summer In The Park from The Missouri Star Quilt Company.

Fabric for the quilt top was a Jelly roll and yardage gifted to me for my 60th Birthday, but the name of the Jelly roll escapes me for the moment.