New and current projects

As you may have noticed, I tend to post about my lofty plans when there is no real quilting content to be had here ...

With my Quilt-in-a-Day No 3 finished and awaiting its first wash, my plane pillow planned and the fabric collection for the calendar quilt well under way, I am looking for a new opportunity to avoid working on my Night on the Tiles.

This will be a charity quilt for the Annual Charity Event at my local International Women's Club. I am super-tempted to go to IKEA on Friday and peruse their fabric collection, putting my "no fabric in 2009 pledge into serious peril. I think I will have to spend some time digging through my stash to see what I can find. Actually, some of that Westfalen fabric that I overstocked on comes to mind ... and with it a first idea. How very Kant-esque of me to be developing my projects whilst rambling about them on my blog!

Theo's Planes on the design wall

I think I found all the scraps I need for the plane appliqué. The propellors will be yellow, body dark-blue, wings light blue and rudder medium blue.

L in a circle

All I need to do now is tie up the loose threads and wash, then 'm done.

Time elapsed: 5,25 hours. Stitching the "L" took me all of a few minutes but I wanted to practise first.

Yay, I won an award for one of my quilt photos

It's no biggie, really, but I'm chuffed! Thanks, Magik Quilter!!!

Will this work?

I am quite excited about this little project. Yesterday, I pulled out my scraps and left-overs from previous projects and assorted lofty plansto have a look at what would work together. As it turns out, a lot of fabric purchased for projects for his older brother will go into Theo's Planes Pillow.

Having done little machine piecing and even less machine applique, I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.

Deadline is Good Friday.

Knitted blanket for my babies

When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was convinced I'd have a boy. But in order to not tempt the Preggo Gods too much, I decided to stick to a relatively neutral scheme when knitting a blanket.

This was before I learned how to quilt.

My first attempts at machine quilting

Ages ago, I took a maching quilting class. They requested we bring a sandwich and I had absolutely no time to prepare anything so I took this HORRENDOUS (! yes, this seriously asks for capitalisation, it's that ugly) yellow fabric with elephants and flowers, put some baby pink voile over it and used some random pink fabric for backing. Five minutes and I was done.

Nowadays, this is a doll quilt and I just looked at the quilting. Not too back for a first attempt.