A second finish in a week

I can happily say I have finished the Laura Gunn quilt too this week, would you like to see? 

It's a big quilt measuring 80" x 64"

and I wont lie it was a little harder to quilt that the lap sized quilts I normally enjoy making.

I ended up going with wide spaced serpentine quilting down the length of the quilt, I toughed it out with the variegated thread and think it has worked out really well.

The blue backing and grey binding help simmer down the riot of bright colours in the quilt top, well I think they do anyway lol

Todays plans involve Thangles (Which my spell check loves by the way) and some more odd shaped solid scraps, wish me luck :) 

 Hope you have a great weekend planned

Quilted and bound!

Quilted and bound! 

I really wanted to use up some of my solids odds and ends, do you end up with strange cuts of fabric from projects too or is that just me? 

I'm loving this really dense wiggly quilting

Brown binding and I'm just a little proud of those corners! 

I love how that orange pulls through in the echino and the backing, such a vibrant happy colour. 

out-take! 

Behind every quilt photo session there is a pouting man with a lint roller!

I have no idea why he is pouting.

This one, the quilt not the man, is now listed in the shop 

New camera and tension issues

So after a few years of iphone photos I gave in and bought a proper camera, I am really enjoying getting to know it better but really do feel we have some way to go before we are firm friends...I will admit to being a little awed and slightly intimidated by all of its buttons.

Needless to say all of the photos in this post have been taken with my iPhone, oh the irony! 

 This is my lovely monster of a quilt. The top is made from Laura gunn fabrics mainly the collection before Poppy that I can't think of the name of. 

I really need to get around to painting those boards white rather than sticking things to them! 

The backing is a very sweet pale blue hand dyed fabric, I know it's hand dyed as it was I that dyed it many moons ago :)

I thought I'd be a smarty pants and use a variegated thread to quilt with.

It is super pretty, mainly green with touches of silver and blue. It also did this to the back of my quilt.

So we, yes I enlisted Him in doors to come and help, spent a whole lot of time swearing and unpicking and swearing some more...I'm hoping he was swearing at the quilting and not me! 

I now have the whole thing re-quilted and awaiting a vaguely bright and snow free day for it's photo shoot in the park.

I've started on my stack of Echino fabric again, is it just me that can't cut this stuff up? Another semi wholecloth lap quilt is in the works, a lovely pieced backing (I never piece backings!) and some serpentine quilting.

However turn the quilt over and this is whats been going on! 

Again with the sloppy tension. I'm not sure whats going on with my machine and I'm very much hoping a good clean out and oil down at the weekend will help resolve the issue...

If the sun shines between now and then I will hopefully have some photos to post taken with my new camera of the gargantuan Laura Gunn quilt. 

Hope you have a lovely week sewing! 

From baby quilts to king sized quilts and blankets in between

I am making this a picture heavy post, I've got lots to show this month! 

A sweet little baby quilt has wiggled it's way into the shop this evening 

 Actually if I'm being pedantic it is a blanket not a quilt as it has no wadding just a patchwork top and this pretty pink flannel quilted together and bound. 

After some of the finishes I've had so far this year I think I just needed a straight forward make and this really just fit the bill! I'm chuffed to bits with how it's turned out.

If you follow me over on flickr you may well have seen this crochet blanket ever so slowly growing. One of the things I really enjoy about crochet is that you can pick it up and put it down whenever you fancy and this has been no exception. 

I still have a few more colours to add but it's already being used to snuggle under while we're watching movies on an evening.

This next one is my giant star quilt, I have no idea who to give the credit to for this pattern as I've seen a few of them around blogland but both Katy and a woman on a rocket cycle  have similar ones and equally provide inspiration! 

Quilting close up. I think this crinkled up perfectly and has soooo much texture.

Random arty iphone photo :)

I do really love this fabric collection, its been out of print for ages now unfortunately or I'd be snapping more of it up.

I like this quilt so much it's staying right here with us :) 

And lastly for today is my second Bloom quilt, thrown over my bed to get pics as it's a Big Boy at just over king size

and two pillow case sets that were made to go with, I didn't remember to take photos of the white ones sewn up but you get the idea :) 

These went off the their new home on Monday so should be in their new house by now :) 

The rest of my evening shall be spent with this stitch ripper and some terrible tension quilting, I have ignored this quilt for over a year because I couldn't face ripping this out after my old machine decided it  didn't want to free motion quilt any more

wish me luck!