The Nieces' Christmas Quilts

All three are finally finished, have borders and are waiting quilting - so that is FIVE, yes FIVE quilts to be finished. EEK!
I am going to concentrate on getting the three Girl's Quilts done first - my two boys may have to wait till the New Year for theirs. lol

Can't believe that I finished the first one in September! Since then I dropped and broke my poor 40+ yr old machine. Thank goodness for ebay! We have also had all the usual childhood coughs and colds (and lack of sleep that goes with) that you get at this time of the year.

The first Post is here.

All the quilts use the same fabric and the patterns are from the Jelly Roll Inspirations book (with a few minor changes)

This one is "Pandora's Box"
For the centre squares I used my scrapes so each square is made up of 4 fabrics - not 2 as in the book. The border is some lovely shiny, lightweight denim/chambray that I bought from FabricLand with the intention of making myself a dress with. Luckily I accidently bought too much (looked at the yardage not the meterage) So I had just enough spare!

I forgot to take some close ups - but in a couple of the centre squares, There are some squares with the initial "B" on. I used some handkerchiefs that I picked up at a car boot back in the summer.

This one is on my earlier blog post
This one is called friendship braid in the book, but I actually used these instructions from The Moda Bakeshop. It isn't very clear in the photo, but I alternated colours in the rows. Purple/pink one side and Blue/Green/yellow on the other. I really tried to make sure that the strips were random but still managed to get clusters of the same fabrics together lol!. See if you can spot them!
This would be a great beginners first quilt - you literally are just sewing two strips together, like you would with a normal patchwork, but the results are much more forgiving! It doesn't show if you sewing is wonky or if your patches don't match up properly.


The middle border is made up of all my left overs. I had some wonky blocks from the other quilts so I cut them up too (that is why there are some diagonal strips).

I really want to have a go at free-motion quilting with these. Some nice Heart, Butterfly or swirls. But I am abit nervous about getting started now!

I ordered my wadding (decided on cotton in the end) from ASDing, as they sold extra wide (120 inch width) wadding by the metre. I can fit two quilts in the width, so need a lot less than if I bought the standard 90inch. I am very impressed with them. I ordered on the weekend, had an email Monday to say my order had been dispatched and despite the snowy weather, it arrived Wednesday!!!

So now I have no excuse for not cracking on! If you con't hear from me for a while - you know where I am lol!

The Little Man's Quilt

I would of liked to have left this alone - with no borders but the finished size was too small.

I had been umming & urring over what to do with it, trying various fabrics that I had to hand. Then I found this lovely car border fabric in my local quilting shop. (I had only gone in to buy some thread as it is the only place locally that I can still buy Guttermans since JL stopped selling it)

I think it finishes it off a treat! It was quite expensive - so I just bought enough to go along the longer sides so I couldn't mitre the corners. I have some other wider pieces with a landscape print on them left over. I may use them to make some pillowcases/cushions. I have got a plain red cotton for the binding on this one (and possibly The Little Fella's).

To quilt this one, I am going to "echo quilt" along the zig-zags, possibly in yellow thread, maybe red.

I have posted about this quilt earlier on my blog

The Little Fella's Quilt

This is the quilt I started on my Beginners Quilting Class at Tikki London. You can find my earlier post HERE. It finally has borders and is waiting to be quilted. I think I will quilt this one on the diagonal.

Hmm I am rubbish at the technical stuff -my photo is upside down and portrait.

Finally an update - but where to start!

OK lets start with this - a little gift I made for a friend in Germany.
It is a Nappy (Diaper) Pouch. I used the tutorial from the Noodlehead Blog. The only thing I changed was the strap. On the Blog she uses tape for the fastening strap, I didnt have any so made one from fabric. The fabric is from the Emergancy Bundles I bought from Fabric Rehab back in the summer.

I filled it with a wipes case and lots of little sachets and tester size bottles of baby toiletries. I hope it got there, as they haven't emailed me to say it arrived yet!