Finished!

It's finished ... yay, about nine hours before Birthday Girl woke up!









It's only taken me five months, I'm rather pleased ... I had counted on this being finished in something like five years, hah!

Almost done!

I've almost finished my little girl's playmat:

This is the top ... and close up:


This is the back - which I never thought would look this good when I started struggling through the rather thick wadding.

and close up:


I just need to finish a wee bit of quilting on the top, then I need to cut the wadding to size and finish the border which will be attached via blind-stitching to the back.

That does not mean ...

that I've stopped working on the other quilt. I'll still do that in the evenings as a de-stressor!

Moving right along ....

I am relatively pleased with the way this is turning out, though I anticipate that the recipient will have graduated college by the time I finish.

I've again added a few links, some of which I found through Kate's Perspective, which I love reading.

Getting back on track ...

now that I've been ill for a week (have not been ill for a week for as long as I can remember, seriously) and to demostrate my getting-back-on-track-ness, I am posting photos:


Ta dah: my first ever quilt:




And the pile of fabric for my next project:




Now I'm planning on introducing progress bars à l'Anna knits. We shall see when I'm getting that accomplished.

Off to a new project:

using 100% cotton fabric, all from IKEA, I will make a baby quilt for my second daughter (not that first daughter's bedspread is anywhere near finished but she will not need it until she is much older whereas this one is meant for playing on so will be used now).

I'm using a floral on cream pattern together with vivid stripes for the border and fabric from old bed linen as the backing (detecting a pattern here? bed linen?). There will be no patchworking in this project, just quilting along the pattern using a light blue yarn. The assembly will be done using my trusted Janome because I cannot be asked to sew so many straight lines.

I'm really excited about this project as I love the vivid colours of the fabric. Will add pictures as soon as poss.