Lovely Linen

 Here we have the Linen & Liberty & Anna Maria Horner fabric I was working on. 


It's a perfect baby cot size or Lounge throw. It's lovely and soft because of the sparse hand quilting. Binding was done in Liberty of London and Anna Maria Horner fabric. 


I pre washed my linen in hot water and put it through the dryer, usually I wouldn't bother but because I was hand quilting and not densely I wanted the linen to stay put! no shrinking please.

Very easy - I would highly recommend you give it a go!

I wanted the hand quilting to  look very naive, I used a number 8 perle cotton and also doubled it over for thickness.

The back view of the quilt with the hand quilting showing through :)

Usual pile of Quilts hanging around somewhere in our house

Miss 4 had to get in on the photo action - never one to miss out.

This is a chair I'm thinking of upholstering  with some quilting...... I have two of them (the blue one),

Till Next Time Xx

Chicken Spots

The joy of children

Half of my mob have come down with the chicken pox (apparently called Chicken spots if your 4 years of age). So far all good - a few big awful spots and a bit itchy, but I am only on day two.So Im not home free yet. 

Lucky for me I have a bit of quilting to keep me occupied for my week at home house bound or trapped!!!!! some might even say.

Scrappy Quilt
This is Mrs Scrappy finally done and finished, I ended up binding her in a grey and white honeycomb - I think it's my new favourite neutral, it goes with everything!
anyway this Quilt is going to a lovely little one for her 1st Birthday = Happy Birthday Nyah :)

Scrappy Quilt

Scrappy Quilt

Scrappy Quilt

Be Square Quilt
The squares are so square! all right angles and exact. I especially like the way the squares jump out from the linen. Binding was done in my Fav pink paisley from Liberty of London, watch this space for some more liberty - I got gifted a nice little pile for my birthday not long ago, maybe this will be the week I cut it up??? Love Love Love Liberty.

Be Square Quilt

Be Square Quilt

Be Square Quilt
I've started machine sewing my Binding on - Is that naughty? It's much much faster.

Be Square Quilt

Enough all-ready!

Mr Darcy's Zig Zag finished and Done :)

I've kinda overdone it with picturing this quilt! but this should be the last you see of Mr Darcy - finally with a back/Quilted and binding on.

I just love it soooo much. I love the actual zig zag and I love the loopy machine quilting, I even love the binding.

I have a habit of falling in love with each quilt I do - It's very hard to part with them

Quilt Back

Quilt Back

I made Mr Darcy double bed size - even though it's for a single bed, I like lot's of over hang.

So that's it for Mr Darcy.......
onto the next Quilt
Xx

It's raining again

Oh no it's raining again..........

So all you get is a indoor peak at the finished Mr Darcy's Zig Zag Quilt

I'm pretty happy with it, but need a bit of space to spread this double bed size baby out and snap some decent pics!

Xx

Endless Opportunities

 This Quilt has evolved over time, it kept being put away whilst other projects were started and finished. I kept losing interest or not really sure which direction to go in. I had at one stage actually put it all together ready to be machine quilted - then the next day up picked it all, it just didn't look right.


I started with the pink and navy nine patch checkerboard and then just didn't know what to do, it was such a strong and dark colour combination. 
After a long while I decided to add in some more material mixes and made some more nine patches. 
I then experimented with framing them - which after a while I liked and then sashed it in white - Voila! two finished quilts. 

I look back at the progress photo's and still see the endless choices .............


What would you have done?
Im curious - No two quilts are ever the same and everyone has a different eye for detail.

Edith's Quilt

Bea's Quilt - please note matching Pegs :)

Have a good week :)
Xx Siobhan

Rules

I'm imposing some rules upon myself........

I must finish all of the piled high projects that are waiting to be finished 

BEFORE I start anything else!!!! 

and take proper photos of them :0 

Oh NO!


so far I'm off to a flying start
* Three quilt backs made and ready
* One lot of binding machine sewn on
* Trimmed two quilts ready for binding


To Do
*Hand sew two lots of binding to finish (already machine sewn on- half done!)
*make binding and sew on two quilts
*Drop off three quilts to Kim Bradley for machine quilting
*Make two more quilt back (for the most recent Union Jack/ Zig Zag)
*pick up text quilt from Kim Bradley and make/do binding
*put Labels on them all......


Then I should have in my little hands

9 Quilts!!!

and then off to do a photo shoot

I couldn't do a post with out a photo - so here is some doodles my daughter and I did over the weekend. She is 8 turning 9 soon and loves a bit of mummy time.

Good luck to me :) and my endeavour

and I hope your all better than me at doing one thing at a time................