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.

Stitchery Sampler

Last year I bought a kit to make Figtree & Co's "Stitchery Sampler" - I love the pieced blocks but didn't enjoy making the orange peel or hexagon blocks and appliqueing them to the background.  The fabrics are "Figtree Shirtings" and are lovely designs.

Also love this backing fabric.

Wasn't sure about which quilting design to choose so left the decision to Karen (Quilting on the Coast).  She used "Wind and Waves" which looks great.

Little sweetheart had borrowed a dress from a friend and wanted me to make one in the same design for her.  We went to Spotlight to choose fabric and she chose something completely different to her friend's plain aqua dress.  Was very happy when I found the glittery navy ribbing in my stash.

Scrappy Celebration

"Scrappy Celebration" is a Lissa Alexander (@modalissa) design that was a free sew-along on Instragram.  Lissa is the queen of scrappy quilts - I love anything she makes/designs.

For this quilt I used lots of Figtree & Co fabrics - one colour combination for each block design.  I also love quilts with scrappy backgrounds and Figtree has lots of low volume prints that work so well as backgrounds.

Once again I asked for "Filigree" quilting - it always looks so lovely with Figtree fabrics.

Sewing

Over the last few weeks I've tried to make a "Flower Girl" block each night in FigTree and Company's "Catalina" fabric and now the quilt top is together.  I think I'd like to make "Flower Girl 2" one day - smaller flower blocks mixed in with nine patch blocks.

This "Aloha Girl" fabrics works well for the backing along with the "Catalina" gingham for the binding.

Working away on the Bernina Busy Book for H's second birthday on Friday.  I won't have all the pages finished in time but there will be a few pages ready and the others can be added as they're done.

The second "Kaleidoscope" quadrant is finished.

Sewcialites block "Unity" designed by Lissa Alexander

Last week I made myself a floaty, summery dress.  The lovely cotton sateen fabric is from Nerida Hansen and so is the pattern.

For months I've been waiting for the "Stitchery Sampler" kit designed by FigTree & Company and it finally turned up last week.  The fabrics are lovely and I'm looking forward to starting this quilt later in the year.

Jenni and Kurt's baby is due in five days - feeling very bit excited/impatient to meet this little one.

All Wrapped Up

This Christmas quilt top was finished in January but the backing fabric took ages to arrive.  It's a pretty quilt designed by FigTree and Co.

Bonnie and Camille's "Vintage Holiday" fabrics were used for the quilt top and backing.  I love the silver dot fabric for the sashings, the pretty aqua ribbon fabric backing and candy stripes are always the perfect binding.

I chose "Rainbow Hearts" for the quilting and I think Karen was relieved to have a change from Orange Peel.

One more quilt to come back from Sarah and then I will be up-do-date for a while.

Binding

A parcel from Sarah arrived earlier this week - two "Butterfly Patch" quilts.

Along with "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler" I will have loads of binding to keep me busy while catching up on some tv shows over the Easter weekend (in between wedding sewing and spending time with family and friends).

"Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's Smitten fabric quilted in wavy lines:

and another "Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's The Good Life also quilted with wavy lines:

Picked up my sewing machine on Tuesday and finished off the Flower Girl's dress - it's very sweet.

I've been making this month's "Summer Moon" blocks and need to catch up on this month's "Christmas Cheer" row.

Tomorrow is our annual sewing day with The Girls and I've cut out "Dashing" in FigTree & Co's new "Chantilly" range to start sewing.

So many pretty colours in this fabric range.

The family is coming for lunch on Sunday - looking forward to lots of fun with my sweethearts.