Binding

After all of the quilting Karen has done over the last couple of weeks, I've been stitching down binding while catching up on recorded tv shows.

Ohio Star Cot Quilt

Cakewalk

Seaglass

I had enough "Seaglass" strips left over to make a 17" sq cushion cover, which Karen kindly quilted in a smaller version of the design on the quilt.

Seaglass Cushion

On Saturday ChaCha came for a sleepover and brought an extra birthday present for me - a bundle of Allison Glass fabrics!  The colours are glorious.  I'm hoping to make Jen Kingwell's "Long Time Gone" quilt some time this year and these fabrics will be perfect in that quilt along with some other Allison Glass fabrics left over from Jenni's 30th birthday "Tessellation" quilt.

Karen quilted "Line Dried" this morning and sent through some photos.

Looking forward to picking it up tonight.  This quilt will have a wavy edge and bias stripe binding.

One of my dearest friends is going to be a first-time Nanna later this year.  I've been saving these fabrics for almost 10 years (for her) and am so happy to have sewn them into a cute quilt.

Lots of Quilting

My friend Karen has been very busy over the last week or so working on my finished quilt tops.

Cake Mix Recipe 4

Seaglass

Ohio Star Cot Quilt 

Cakewalk

Cot Quilt

 Lots of binding to do over the next while - time to catch up on all the recorded tv shows.

"Line Dried" is together and ready to drop off for quilting.  Two borders have been added - narrow white with turquoise spots and wider turquoise butterfly print.

I'm looking forward to this one being quilted because I'm going to use my scallop/wave ruler on the outer border.

Had a fun day with Gulliver on Friday: Devonshire Tea, Play Doh etc,

then my friends and I went to see the new "Avengers" movie - not really my cup of tea but was happy enough to see it.  Watched The Wedding with Mum and pretty much spent all Sunday sewing to put together the little cot quilt and most of Line Dried.

Ohio Stars

Ohio Star blocks are all I seem to be sewing lately:

"Scrappy Stars" was made with 145 Ohio Star blocks

This cot quilt has 63 Ohio Star blocks

And now I'm making "Line Dried" designed by Coriander Quilts which has 95 Ohio Star blocks varying in size from 12-1/2" to 3-1/2" (no photos of the 3-1/2" stars yet).

12-1/2"

9-1/2"

6-1/2"

It will be nice to sew something different in the near future.

Such a busy weekend moving furniture out of the sewing room and setting up that room as a bedroom for the little sweethearts.

Lots of Blocks

There has been lots of tv watching over the last few days - it's great having the Commonwealth Games on in our timezone - so 224+ half-square triangles ironed for "Snippets" quilt hourglass blocks.  More to iron another night.

Made lots of progress on the Ohio Star cot quilt over the weekend, in amongst house work and spending time with Mum.  I think this will be the final layout and these blocks are ready to be sewn together.

The customer has requested two quilts.  The second quilt is "Cakewalk" designed by Thimble Blossoms.  It will be very pretty in all reds and pinks with white background.  This will be the third Cakewalk Quilt I've made.

Michael, Peta and Gulli had a fun time on Sunday afternoon cooking.  Looks like the little cakes were delicious.

 

Looking forward to the weekend - I'll be spending time with both little Sweethearts.

Easter

The week leading up to Easter and Easter itself were busy but lots of fun and great times with the family and friends.

Early last week I finished sewing "Scrappy Stars" - it's a reasonably big quilt at ~87" square and there was a lot of cutting and sewing to make the scrappy stars.

The backing and scrappy navy binding.

I dropped the quilt off with Karen on Good Friday when we had our sewing day with Paula and Rhonda, making Cake Mix Recipe 4 quilts - the recipe papers help make very accurate half-square triangles using Layer Cakes (I'm using FigTree & Co "Mirabelle" with Minnick & Simpson's "Miss Scarlet" for the background).

The girls working hard:

Karen is making a quilt with flying geese blocks:

Friday night ChaCha came to stay and after she went to bed I removed the papers while watching "Harrow" and "Silent Witness".

On Saturday ChaCha and I met up with Elizabeth and Matt at the Easter Fair in Towradgi - such a great event for little ones:  loads of rides.  Gosh it was hot.

Did a fair bit of cutting out over the weekend as well.

Susan Ache's "Seaglass" using loads of different FigTree & Co fabrics with the same "Miss Scarlet"

 
and an Ohio Star quilt for a customer from her children's baby clothes:

Easter Sunday was mostly preparing for the family lunch on Easter Monday and I also visited Karen to pick up the "Medley" quilt.  Easter Monday was so great - the little ones just love seeing each other and play so well together.  The Easter Bunny visited Primbee and left footprints all over the back yard.  It was The Best Day.