Baby Soul Blossoms {WIP}

Soul Blossoms baby quilt top. All ready for quilting with a pieced back and black and white stripe binding.

I'm on a roll. I now have 5 baby quilts ready for quilting.

Enjoy your weekend x

Wednesday's Work In Progress (Cameo Quilt)

Cut and laid out the grey sashing strips last night. It looks fantastic. The grey really makes the Cameo pop. 

Cameo Quilt (Work In Progress)

On Saturday night, while Master 2 watched Shrek 3 and played with his Matchbox cars, I laid out the strips for my Cameo quilt. I ended up moving a few bits around after I took these photos. Can't have fabrics the same too close to each other!

Chain piecing the strips, they came together really quickly. This pattern is definately a winner. Fantastic if you needed a lap quilt in a hurry for a gift. 

Now I'm off to my local quilt shop to get the grey fabric for sashing. Stay tuned.

Wednesday's Work In Progress (Cameo Quilt)

On the cutting mat today.

Cutting the 10" squares into 5" x 10" rectangles. 

To be alternated with the 5" x 5" squares and sewn into strips.

Amy Butler's Cameo Sew-A-Long Contest

Some of you that know me will know that I am a huge fan of Amy Butler fabric. My mum sent me an email last night with the details of Amy Butler's Cameo Sew-A-Long Contest. Funnily enough, I had purchased a Cameo 10" square pack and a 5" square pack only a few weeks back. It arrived in my post office box today. I have taken this as a sign.

I have decided on a quilt layout. My original idea included a solid navy fabric (I have a thing for navy at the moment) but I went into my local quilt shop today to have a look and have come out with something completely different in mind. A dark grey cross hatch print. It really makes the colours of the Cameo fabrics pop! I have a gift voucher to spend and Monday will be the start of a big sale, 30% off everything, so I will go and purchase it then. 

This one will definately be a keeper.

Sunday Stash # 9

My purchases this week.

Cherry Christmas charm pack

Amy Butler Cameo layer cake

Space fabric for Master 2's 'I Spy' stash

Ta Dot 5" charm pack

3.5m DS fabric for a quilt back

More 'I Spy' fabric for Master 2 (I couldn't resist those mice!)

QCA Bee - July Blocks

This month Anorina from Samelia's Mum asked for any modern star block, 12.5" inches, in black, white, grey and orange. 

I chose a Sawtooth Star. The tutorial I used is here.

Block # 1

Block # 2

July Blocks Together

For the first block I fussy cut a flower from some Amy Butler fabric. This one is Apricot Wallflower from her Lotus range. For the second block I fussy cut my centre block from some Wrenly fabric.

I haven't been doing much sewing lately as I have been renovating my bedroom and it's been a bit chaotic around here, but I have had a few orders for wipes containers. This print has been popular and I have done quite a few in this fabric.

I have another one of these to finish today so I better get to it.

Drawstring Quilt

A few weeks ago I finished this drawstring quilt. Made using a pattern by the wonderful Jodi at Tickle and Hide. You can purchase the pattern in her etsy store.

I used a jelly roll from my stash for the top, binding and drawstring. As it turns into a bag when drawn up, I used this gorgeous Amy Butler print for the back. It's called Berry Floral Couture and it's from her Lark range.The drawstring pocket fabric is Tumble Roses from her Love range.

These quilts are just fantastic for mum's with bubs. You can take it anywhere, perhaps with toys inside, and lay it out for bub to lay or play on. I wish I had one when Master 2 was little!

This quilt is for sale here on my Facebook page.

Sunday Stash # 1

I love fabric. That's no secret. So Fiona at Finding Fifth has inspired me to follow her with the weekly Sunday Stash post.

For the past two weeks, my local quilting store, Finchs Nest, has had a big sale. 30% off all fabric, 20% off all quilt kits, 50% off all Christmas things and some other great discounts on remnants. I always look forward to these sales because when I have quilts planned I can usually pick up what I need at the discounted price. This was the case this time with my train quilt, that will be a Christmas gift for my stepbrother. I got some 2.4m wide backing and the binding. I will post about this quilt, I just need to get some good photos of the completed top.

I also have recently gone through my stash and sorted all my fabric into colours. It became apparent that I am significantly lacking in yellow and orange fabrics. This is probably because they are my two least favourite colours. But because I am planning to make some scrappy quilts from the Scrap Republic book, I thought that I had better invest in a few more prints. Any excuse to buy more fabric right? ;-)

So I picked up these, not all are yellow and orange but it was on sale so I just had to get some of those ones that I have had my eye on....

I also got this one from the remnant basket, and it turns out that it's actually a Christmas print so I got it for half price. $5.00 for 70cm. Bargain. 

Yesterday I won an auction on ebay for 2.5m of Amy Butlers Heirloom/Blue Sky from her Lark range for $27.50 including postage. That works out to be $11.00/m! I love Amy Butler fabrics, particularly this range and her Love range, so it will definately be put to good use!

Hope you have had a nice weekend x

The Amy Quilt

This lovely quilt went to it's new home yesterday. Well, sort of, a very good friend of mine purchased it for her Mum for Mothers Day. So it's yet to make it to it's new owner, but I'm very confident that it will be loved.

Unfortunately I can't take all the credit for this one. The only thing I did was piece the top. My intention was to get it finished for the Lavender Farm Craft Fair last week but because I do all my pinning and quilting at my Mum's house, and I can only do this on weekends, I pretty much ran out of time. So my wonderful Mum ended up doing it for me, and she even hand stitched the binding! Thanks Mum! 

The Amy quilt started out as leftover 5.5" squares from a couple of quilts my Mum had made, one of them being mine. I had the perfect amount to make this lap quilt, which ended up being approximately 45" x 55" (113cm x 138cm). The fabrics are by Amy Butler, mostly from her Love range. 

I love this quilt so much. It was very hard to part with it. But I think I will just make myself one very similar, but bigger.

Sneak Peek

Don't you just love it when a new quilt top starts to come together?