Sewing Catch Up

 "Sweet Escape" is almost finished.

The backing is a lovely, bright "One Fine Day" fabric and I've used the off-cuts for the binding.

I asked Karen to use "Modern Loops".

Last year I bought a fq bundle of Tasha Noel's "Simply Country" fabric - such a beautiful collections of blues and white.  I also bought a bolt of the wideback fabric.

Wasn't sure what to make then decided on Thimble Blossoms' "Summerville" and so happy with how it's turned out.

"Modern Loops" for this quilt as well.

"Summerville" and "Sweet Escape" are both ready for the binding to be stitched down but I'm not doing this until I have finished embroidering some blocks for Daisy's quilt - I am the Queen of Procrastination.

I have a stack of quilts ready to send to Karen (after I stitch down the binding on the previous two quilts).

Rosemary:

I seemed to have a lot of aqua Thimble Blossoms and Bonnie & Camille fabrics in my stash and thought Thimble Blossoms' "Rosemary" would work well with these fabrics.

I have always loved the bow fabric from "Vintage Christmas", and bought lots of it when it was available, so am happy to use most of what I had left for the border.

Springville:

I had a few larger pieces of Thimble Blossoms' "Lighthearted" left over and wanted to use them to make "Springville".  Love making a quilt completely from my stash - I had to add quite a few pieces to finish off the quilt top.

The border fabric is from Bonnie and Camille's "Smitten" range - so pretty.

I have enough of the lovely "Lighthearted" backing fabric left to make a dress for Daisy in a year or two.

Rainbow Connection:

This year has been the year of making nine patch blocks.  "Rainbow Connection" is a Thimble Blossoms design made of nine patches.  I had enough of the aqua plaid fabric left over from "Sweet Escape" to make this quilt and the "Moda Love" cot quilt.

The quilt is made with mostly "Sunday Stroll" and "One Fine Day" fabrics with lots of other Bonnie & Camille and Thimble Blossoms fabrics from my scrap stash.

The backing is a lovely "Shine On" fabric.

Moda Love:

I had some aqua "Sweet Escape" blocks left after the quilt was together, so sewed up a few more and made a cot quilt top.

Our littlest sweetheart is growing up way too quickly.  She is such a delightful, happy little soul.

Piece and Quilt SAL

Two of my favourite quilt pattern designers, Lissa Alexander and Susan Ache (both brilliant scrappy quilt designers), have produced a book called "Celebrate with Quilts" and are hosting a QAL.  I'm making two quilts - one using Thimble Blossoms' "Shoreline" range and the other using my Fig Tree stash.

Month 1

Month 2

Month 3:

I've been starting my blocks on the first of each month but am very tempted to just keep going.

Starlight

 "Starlight" is a lovely Thimble Blossoms design.  I've made this quilt using a FigTree "Fruit Cocktail" jelly roll to give it a scrappy look and "Figs and Shirtings" for the star points and border.

An older FigTree fabric, "Somerset", for the backing.

I love a rainbow quilt and Thimble Blossoms' "Hello Sunshine" is a great pattern to use up stash and create a rainbow.

Once again I asked Karen to use "Orange Peel" - it always looks great.

Scrappy Jelly Girl

When I made a Jelly Girl quilt earlier this year I had loads of offcuts from the jelly roll strips.  So I thought these would make a great scrappy version of this quilt.  I love how it turned out and I'm always happy to use FigTree fabrics.

Karen quilted it with "Featheration", which is always a favourite.

I was able to buy another "Quilt Fair" layer cake from Bella's Patchwork - it's such a pretty fabric range - and decided to make Thimble Blossoms' "Flower Girl 2", a variation of her original "Flower Girl"quilt with smaller flowers and added nine patch blocks.

I love this quilt top

and the backing is another pretty Tasha Noel design.

I asked Karen to quilt "Orange Peel" on this one.