Bliss Granny Squares

The Bliss Granny Squares quilt was finished last night.  It's not a very large quilt - big enough for a cot or a lap quilt/knee rug.  I love the colours in this fabric range and they all look so beautiful together.

Bliss Granny Squares - 36" x 47"

I quilted this one on the frame with a large meander using the new machine - worked like a charm - and chose the large floral with aqua background for the backing and binding

and the large floral with vanilla background for the sashings and borders.

The next Pyjama Babies quilt top is together - this is a custom request.  There is a lot of grey in the nursery so the nanna-to-be wanted that to be the main colour of the quilt.  Backing arrived last week and I'm hoping to baste this quilt in the next day or so.

Some secret sewing took place last week and I've started stitching out some clown alphabet sampler letters and numbers on the embroidery machine.  I think they'll make a lovely child's quilt.

More Squares

Jenni has been playing with the embroidery machine again - this time some really cute owls, which she's made into cushion covers

while I have been sewing more Granny Squares and putting the quilt top together.

It looks really busy with the floral sashings and borders but I didn't have enough of the white-on-white left to use for a narrow border.  This has been a great design to use up some lovely leftovers.  Not sure what's on the agenda for today - maybe I should do a bit of housework while I think about it.

Short Attention Span

That's me lately - can't seem to settle on doing one thing.  While reading this blog yesterday I came across this quilt and thought how lovely it is and what a great way to use up favourite left-overs.  Then I remembered I had some leftover of jelly roll pieces from Twirling Bliss, about 0.5m of the white-on-white from Hot Cross plus a little bit of the red spot fabric to use for the centre of the blocks, so last night I started cutting and had to sew up one block.  There was enough fabric in those leftovers to make 12 blocks and I have plenty of the Bliss large floral to use for a border.

Granny Square Block

The block isn't set out precisely as in the original, because I don't have enough darks and lights, but I'm really happy with how it looks and thrilled to bits to be making another quilt out of these pretty leftovers.

Something else pretty exciting happened this week too.  I have been asked to make a cot quilt on commission for a baby due in May - the only requirement is that grey is used and, after discussing fabrics with the soon-to-be nanna, I'll be using some of the Little Apples range by Aneela Hoey - it's so sweet, teemed with a couple of grays and a red from A Day in the Country.