Log Cabin Quilt

This quilt is from a pattern called "Jelly Rolls Gone Wild 2" by Me and My Sister Designs.  They also designed the fabric.

The quilt was started at a workshop in July with Barb and Mary and the binding was stitched down on Sunday night.

All of the fabrics these girls design are so happy and great fun.

Karen quilted pretty bows all over the quilt.   I've always loved bows.

Thrilled to bits with how this quilt has turned out.

Thimble Blossoms Scrappy Sampler

This quilt was made as part of a Quilt-Along on Instagram and started in June, quilted last month and had been left on the couch till I felt like stitching down the binding.  I loved making these blocks and was happy to use up some of my Bonnie and Camille stash.  I tried very hard to not repeat any fabrics.

 

I really like this curly quilting design.

Last week I sewed Niner blocks and sewed some blocks into rows.

One more night's sewing and the quilt top will be done.  I'm going to be very disciplined and finish off two other quilt tops before I start something new (we'll see).

Had a busy weekend:  lots of housework, gardening etc on Saturday and out for lunch with friends yesterday.  No machine sewing but there was hand sewing stitching down bindings.

The Wish Quilt

Started in late 2008 and my baby grandchildren's name were sewn onto two stars last night.  The Wish Quilt was quilted about 5 months ago and then sat on the lounge waiting for the binding to be stitched down until 2 weeks ago.  It then needed some buttons attaching and a little bit of handstitching before I could say it's finished.

Karen did some fancy quilting which turned out very well.

 

I've been using the unquilted top as a tablecloth at Christmas time since 2011.  Will be lovely to have the finished quilt on the table this year.

Long Weekend

Late last week I received a message from Sarah with a couple of photos of my Fresh quilt on her frame.  It's looking so wonderful - can't wait for it to arrive home (hopefully this week).

Last week I finally got around to finishing off the 9 patch blocks for Shortcake

and sewed half of the blocks into rows.

Shortcake is a fairly large quilt (88" x 96") and will easily fit on a queen-sized bed.

I needed a change from Shortcake over the weekend so decided to make a start on Niner - I cut out about half of the blocks in January and sewed most of them on Sunday then cut out the rest yesterday morning.

 

Another 24 nine patch blocks to go and I can start putting this one together.  The background is white with little red dots and I think it will look very cute.

Had a lovely day out in Sydney with Barbara on Saturday - we spent quite a few hours shopping and designing shoes at "Shoes of Prey" and visited both babies.  Sunday I cleaned out the spare room to set up the quilting frame (which has been dismantled in the garage for 18 months since the great flood) and met up with the stitching girls in the afternoon - it was such a hot day.  Yesterday morning, another hot day, I spent a bit of time setting up the quilting frame then Mum and I went to see "Oddball" - such a great Australian movie based on a true story, and afterwards I finished setting up the frame.

Swell

Nearly 6 months ago I decided to make Camille Roskelley's (Thimble Blossoms) "Swell" from her book Simply Retro out of a batik jelly roll I had.  The colours are very pretty and I had a few jelly roll strips left over from the two Goodnight Irene quilts, so I added those in to make this quilt a bit larger.

Karen had a fantastic blue/green/turquoise batik fabric in stock that worked very well as border, binding and backing.

I love the frilly spiral quilting Karen did.  I'll definitely be choosing that pattern again.

The Wish Quilt is almost finished.  It was started in 2008. 

 
I stitched the reindeer antlers last night

and I found some Christmas buttons in my stash to sew onto the stars.

There has also been a little secret sewing happening to get ready for Quilt Camp at the end of October.

A Year in my Life

This quilt was started before I had my blog and finished on Tuesday night - well over 8 years.

Leanne Beasley's original idea was to make a note every day for a year but I knew I couldn't keep up with that so I made a panel for a month with a few little stitcheries on each diary block.  I had a collection of 12" star block patterns I'd been wanting to use in a quilt so this worked out well using a variety of red, burgundy, caramel, off-white and cream fabrics from my stash.

 

Karen did the quilting a few months ago and the binding was sewn on straight away but not stitched down till this week.

Reading what happened over that year has been fantastic:  my children's 20th, 25th and 28th birthdays, our holiday in Tasmania, Mum's 80th birthday party, a friend's visit to Sydney for the quilt show and lots of everyday stuff.  So much has happened since then including university graduations, two weddings, two grandbabies.

12" Sampler Quilt

This quilt was stated in 2010 and made with friends in an on-line stitching group.  We each chose a 12" block to make for the quilt.  The quilt top was finished in January 2011 and I started quilting it but managed to muck up the back so put it aside until early this year when I gave it to Mum to unpick

Karen quilted it for me, then after I attached the scrappy binding, the quilt sat on the couch for 4 months until last night when I decided to stitch it down.

 

I love the  ribbon border - this design comes from Quilters' Cache, and the setting design comes from a very old Debbie Mumm book.

 

There are two more quilts on the couch.