Rectangles Cot Quilt

The last stitches in the binding of this cot quilt went in last night.

 

The quilt top was made in August last year (inspired by a quilt I'd seen on Susan's blog) and Karen quilted it with clamshells (one of my favourite designs) a couple of weeks ago.  I made a few cot quilts with these colours last year.

Last week most of my sewing time was spent making a dress and Panda for ChaCha's first birthday.

 

The weekend was very busy with the birthday party in Sydney on Saturday and a baby shower yesterday afternoon.  I made another set of wardrobe organisers for my great niece due at the end of March - another great-grandchild for Mum.

Earlier in the week I finished adding the borders to Patchwork Swoon - I am really keen to make another one in Bonnie and Camille fabrics.

A parcel was delivered on Friday afternoon - I'd forgotten that I had ordered this Moda selvedge fabric from Sarah so it was a lovely surprise.  I love the "Little Ruby" mini charms.  The selvedge fabric will be great backing for a quilt in the future.

We have some relatives visiting from Holland and Canada - they're coming for dinner tonight along with some other cousins.  Should be a fun night - we have Tim Tam Cheesecake for sweets (not made by me).

More Cot Quilts

Late last week I put the log cabin quilt aside to cut out some cot quilts.  Seems all my friends are having grandsons.  A couple of weeks ago I bought a fantastic hexagon fabric in teal, aqua, lime green, grey and white so I went hunting through my fabrics for pieces to go with the hexagon fabric and I've made two quilt tops in these colours.

The first one is a design I borrowed from Susan - I saw her quilt top in Instagram and she gave me permission to use her layout.

The second quilt top is based on Cluck Cluck Sew's "Off-Track" pattern - I made the rectangles smaller and shortened the linking block to make it more cot-sized.

A third cot quilt has been cut out using a cute flannel lightweight flannel fabric - the quilt design is called "Retro" from Camille Roskelley's book "Simply Retro" - it's a 12" finished block to very quick and easy to make for a cot quilt.

 

Hoping to sew these blocks together tonight and add the borders.  I have one more cut out in a lovely pearlised fabric called "Hollywood Sparkle" to make Shoo Fly blocks.

Jenni went to Ikea yesterday and sent a photo of a little shelf unit she thought I might like for the sewing room.

 
The doll has been moved and the shelf is on the left-hand side now.  Jenni also brought back some white baskets for under the cutting table.

There has also been a little bit of tv-watching crochet - making little granny squares that might be a jacket for Smudgie.

Barb and Mary have posted some photos of their trip to Australia and the classes they taught.  Great photo of Karen.