Caitlin's baby quilt!

This is my entry in Amy's Bloggers Quilt festival for 2010. It was made for my 2nd daughter Caitlin. I designed the simple layout myself and chose the fabrics before she was born.  The fabrics have lots of animals and insects on them and Caitlin has grown up ( she is now 10 years) to love all animals and quite happily lets insects crawl all over her. It's a bright and happy quilt which suits Caitlin's personality as well.

The hearts are machine appliqued with a small blanket stitch then hand quilted with echo lines. I hand quilted uppercase letters down the sides of the border.

Along the top and bottom of the border are hand quilted numbers. The outer border is made up of leftover pieces from the nine patch blocks.

You can visit more Quilt Festival quilts over here. Thank you Amy for organising this festival and giving us the opportunity to showcase our special quilts.

We have a winner!

Thanks you to everyone who commented on my giveaway......I was overwhelmed with the response this time around!! Welcome to all my new followers, I hope you come back often so I can get to know you better! When I asked 'What was your favourite fabric line?' I didn't think about what a difficult question this is to answer!! I think the top ones were Nicey Jane, anything by Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner and I could go on but a lot of you like to recycle and make the most of what you've got which is cool too.

Anyway the Random Generator came up with .........No.118 Jenny who's current favourite fabric lines are "Red Letter Day" and "Castle Peeps" by Lizzy House.

Congratulations Jenny! I will email you shortly.

Thanks to Sew Mama Sew for organising these giveaways!!

May Day giveaway time!!!!

I'm very happy to be once again participating in Sew Mama Sew's May Day Giveaway. I hope you like what I've put together for you! First up I have forty 5 inch charm squares of Balinese Batiks. If you want some inspiration on how to use batiks have a look here, and here and here.Then I have been madly hand sewing today to finish a needle case.

This is the reverse side which is made up of mostly scraps from the Wonderland by Momo fabric range.

And this is the inside.

To be included in my giveaway you can...

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   Leave me a comment and tell me what your current favourite fabric collections are and also what your favourite online fabric shops are!!
2. Become a follower or if you already are just remind me :)
3. Please make sure I can contact you with your email address or via your blog if you have one.

• I am happy to ship internationally! 
• I will leave this giveaway open until May 20th and announce the winner by May 21st.
• The winner will be chosen by a random generator and the items shipped by May 24th.

Good luck to everyone and enjoy looking through all the other giveaways on offer!!

Bloggers Quilt Festival coming soon!

Hope you've all got a quilt ready to showcase in this great bloggers event organised by Amy. Can't wait to see the lovely quilt eye candy!!

Nicey Mail today!!

It's a bit of a dreary day here today but my day has considerably brightened up since the mail arrived.

Lovely Nicey Jane fabrics by Heather Bailey! I have coveted this line as soon as it was released, so when Lara offered it up for sale so she could free up her fabric buying budget, I didn't hesitate. Thanks so much Lara!

I love them all but this particular print is my favourite and in every colourway! I don't have a specific project in mind yet but I'm sure these fabrics will inspire me sooner rather than later.

As I said before its a bit showery here today but in between showers we are having lovely sunny patch's. We made the most of these patch's this morning by taking the girls down to the netball courts and having a mini game of netball with just the 4 of us. It was fun but also a good workout! Early this morning we were woken up with lightening and thunder then heavy rain that turned into hail. Our forecast for today was for more of the same and I was secretly looking forward to that because that sort of weather always makes me want to hibernate in my sewing room and get creative. I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels like this. My husband is the complete opposite, he gets cabin fever easily.

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend! I'm off to get creative!!

A finish!!

As you can see it has the royal seal of approval! Finished it yesterday but we had heavy rain all day so was unable to take a decent photo. Today was fine and sunny so I have some lovely shots taken outside in my garden. I think her highness likes this quilt as she followed me around trying her best to get in each shot. She won in the end! Perhaps she just wanted to feature on my blog!

Here it is in all its technicolour beauty! I used most of the leftover strips from my string quilt but still have a few left for another quilt that I've designed myself this time.

I machine quilted along each seam line and tied the centre of each block with matching embroidery floss using 3 shades of the block colour and also tied where corners intersect.

And this is the back. I know, quite dull after the front but hey its made up of old fabrics from my stash that needed to be used up to make way for some fresh modern ones!  The green check binding was leftover from a previous quilt although I had to make more for this quilt. For now this quilt is going to hang out in our lounge to snuggle under on cold winter evenings. If you want to make a  'quilt as you go quilt' you can find the instructions over on Penny's blog. Thanks Penny for great instructions and hosting this quilt along.

It's here again!!

This coming Monday is giveaway day organised by Sew Mama Sew and I'm participating once again. These giveaways are so much fun so be sure to come back on Monday and sew what I'm giving away!