What a glorious Sydney day!

productivity is at an all time high

I have decided to straight line quilt my baby boy quilt, although I have broken the cardinal rule of not having excess wadding...... I'm trying to use up the bits I have. It will work! (fingers crossed)

If I had more wadding I would have circular quilted it, like the one below.

Circular quilting seems to gobble up the backing & wadding - so straight line quilting it had to be!

The next few days will see me sewing these fabric panels into cushions!

busting to get into these

and here we have the back of a special project I have been doing for The Fat Quarterly crew. Very excited about this one.

Thats me for today

Xx Siobhan

Liberty Strips - Part two

A few days later and here we have the finished baby quilt

Here is the original post where I talk about how & why I made this quilt.

The general gist is that I had some liberty fabric strips from a previous project and I wanted to make a baby quilt, this is what I came up with.

I wanted to do something different for the quilting, I'm really enjoying the look of circular quilting and I felt that it would make it just a little bit more interesting than straight lines.

I was also seeing a lot of love hearts everywhere!

apparently valentines day is soon....

so a heart shape it was!

I started with my heart shape in the middle, I then echoed around the heart in a 1/4 inch distance until I came to the edge of the basted quilt. 

for the binding I had some pre made liberty of london bias binding which I bought in London last September when I was at the Liberty of London store. It was really nice to sew on.

Here we have the complete front and back!

the back is also a piece of Liberty of London tana lawn. 

I love how the heart echo's out

It took a while to machine quilt the heart echo, but well worth the effort.

all ready to swaddle the baby to be

Xx Siobhan Rogers

working away

Hope you all had a great Weekend

I'm on the last week of school holidays, busily getting four little people equipped and ready.

This week the issue #151 of Down Under Quilts should be in store & my Liberty Quilt is on the Cover, pattern etc included and lots of info/ stories about Liberty of London

In other news

I'm working on a full instructions & post about the Lone Star, sneak peak above

 and I also have been seriously side tracked by this block - Swoon by Camille Roskelley at Thimble Blossom

my block is made up from all of my Spoonflower Designs

Katy from I'm a ginger monkey is hosting a swoon-along

Back to work for me!

Xx Siobhan

going in Circles

I bought a new Sewing machine !

It makes top quilting so much easier

I had this front made up ready for another large cushion front, changed my mind and its a baby rug now

I've been busting to do the circle top quilting for ages! so many people have been doing it very small example of people I have noticed would be Malka Dubrawsky & Denyse Schmidt, so many others on Flickr with fantastic work.

If you have a blog post or flickr picture on circular top quilting I would love to have a look (as I'm sure would everyone else)

Leave a link in the comments

so much fun & I think it adds a nice extra dimension to the quilt

Not sure how much longer this wall will be in the back of my house, Our renovations are starting to take shape

Take Care

Xx Siobhan