Rearranging

I will be on holidays next week and my plan was to do a bit of furniture reshuffling in The Pink Room.  A little bit of water seeped onto the carpet under the window during the unbelievably heavy rain last week, so I decided to move the furniture on the weekend.  It's time for Elizabeth's desk, corner unit and hutches to go to a new home (they're listed on GumTree for free).

Moved the desk my Dad built for me when I was 8 to along the wall under the window for the overlocker and moved a slim chest/bookcase from Jenni's original bedroom to the corner then moved the sewing table adjacent to the wall leaving more space to the left of the sewing table.  I'll give it a couple of weeks to see if I like this new arrangement.  This room is always a work in progress.

"Jiggery Pokery" is together - I don't have a wallspace to hang it so that I can take a good photo.

It's 90" x 96" - will shrink a little bit with quilting.

The backing.

"Castle Gardens" is also together - this one is more large lap size.

A friend sent me the fabrics for this quilt, including the pretty Tilda backing fabric.

Both quilts have been sent to Karen for quilting.

Had a fun time at work yesterday with Jenni, Kurt, Vinnie, John, Elizabeth, T and H coming to campus for lunch.  So wonderful to see the little ones having a great time together.

Definitely looking forward to the Easter break and holidays (starting Wednesday night).

Time's Flying

Time is flying so quickly and I'm a bit behind in my blog writing.

The Dinosaurs quilt top for Little H is finished and is with Sarah for quilting.

The pattern contains a small and large quilt.  The kit from The Next Stitch was very generous and there was plenty of fabric leftover to make the smaller version of the quilt as well.  I think I could stretch out the coloured fabric to make another small quilt and use a different fabric for background.

I finally machine embroidered towels for Vincent

and a couple of other new babies.

Cheeky chops Vincent has been standing up in his cot for a couple of weeks - the base has been lowered - and he is pulling himself up to standing wherever he can.

A friend asked me to piece a quilt for her - "Hannah's Garden" designed by Treehouse Textiles.  She sent a starter pack of fabrics put together by Treehouse Textiles - so pretty.

All the blocks for "Loveliness" have been made and these have joined the other 4 stacks of blocks to be sewn together in to quilt tops.

I bought myself a present.

So happy with it.  Lots of space to spread out my stuff.

Mixed Bag

I seem to be jumping from one project to another these days - suits my state of mind.

A few weeks ago I cut out the pieces to make "Blueberry Kisses" blocks.  The quilt consists of cross and nine patch blocks with scrappy sashings and posts between the on point set blocks.  The cross blocks were sewn up over a few days

and also the nine patches

along with the scrappy setting triangles.

A friend saw these photos on Instagram and asked if she could buy the quilt but she would like it much bigger than the pattern size.  So, more cutting this week.

One of my dearest friends moved to England over 40 years ago to attend the London Cordon Bleu Cookery School, met her husband and has lived there ever since.  She became a grandma for the first time 10 days ago.  I had a pile of squares cut from Jocelyn Proust fabrics and some teal solid in the cupboard - perfect for another Bradley Street quilt to celebrate the little baby girl's Australian heritage.  A very quick quilt top to put together.  It's going to Jenny today for quilting.

Feathers is another customer quilt.  FigTree Fabrics suit this design very well.  The customer chose the border fabric.  The quilt, along with Electrolite, is now with Karen for quilting.

I am slowly making a quilt for Little H - Dinosaurs designed by Elizabeth Hartman.  Boy there's a lot of cutting out with these blocks.  The pattern is so well-written with very clear diagrams and the blocks come together easier than I anticipated.  This Brachiosaurus is my first dinosaur.  There are four types of dinosaurs in the quilt and six blocks of each type.

There has been a fair bit of lockdown shopping over the last few weeks - mainly fabrics for quilt backings.  I've been looking for some more storage boxes for The Pink Room and came across these from Ikea.  The smaller boxes are the perfect size to hold a fat quarter bundle.

The larger boxes are too long to fit into the wall units but they fit very well under the cutting table.

Looks like the wall units need a good sort out next but first I have a "secret-sewing" cot quilt to make for a special baby born on Tuesday.

Quilt Top

Poor "Hide and Seek" has been languishing on the floor of The Pink Room for weeks.

A couple of rows were added last Monday and the floor is looking tidier.  I'll get back to it soon.

I have decided to make a red "Red Letter Day"  and ordered some more Bonnie & Camille reds along with some more Riley Blake Swiss Dots for the background.

Had to make one block. I'm adding extra little blocks in the corners to make small stars when the blocks are joined together.

"Wish Upon a Star" quilt top is together,

 the backing is made

and they are ready to take to the quilter tomorrow.  The rosebud fabric will also be used for the binding.

On Saturday I spent a fair while working on the layout for Scrappy Trip Around the World - thought I had it sorted until I found two blocks with the same aqua fabric next to each other.  Hopefully it's all good to go now - I want to start sewing these blocks together tonight.

Yesterday I went to the shops to buy some machine needles and also bought a new cutting mat - it's long overdue.

 

Over the weekend I also worked on the Dwell house blocks - 2 lots of 6 blocks are going to the other swap members

and these blocks are for my quilt:

Littlest Sweetheart turns 1 on Wednesday - what a quick year that has been!

Change of Plans

I came across a pattern called 'School Days Charm Quilt" and thought it would work well to use up a load of Bonnie and Camille charm squares I had in my stash. Made one block on Wednesday night to try out the pattern.

Started sewing up the rest of the blocks on Thursday

and had a completed quilt top by very late Friday night.  Really enjoyed sewing with some larger fabric pieces.

I've bought the pretty bow fabric for the backing and hope it will arrive in the next week or so.

The border fabric is probably my most favourite Bonnie and Camille fabric ever.  It's from their "Vintage Modern" range and I bought all the fabric on the bolt when Sarah and I went to Quiltsmith in Sydney for a class with Camille in 2014.  I have a bit less than a metre left now.

My weekend plans changed so I had some extra sewing time - thought I should try to finish up the "100% Charming" quilt top.

This is the finished quilt top as per pattern.

Borders were added (to use up more fabric) - the quilt will fit better on a bed now.

Yesterday I starting making "Sugar Plums".  I love having a few quilts cut out and ready to sew when I feel like a change.  I'm thinking of making this quilt in "The Good Life" as well.

Dropped my Bernina and embroidery machines off for a service yesterday

so have been using the Pfaff - gosh this machine sews fast.  I bought it at the end of 2011 to use on my quilting frame and it's hardly been used.