A Friday Finish - Baby Quilt / Playmat

I am really pleased to get this little quilt finished ahead of starting Bonnie's mystery quilt today.
My sister commissioned me to make this for our nephew who is going to become a daddy for the first time in early February.

Luckily, I was able to find out that the baby is a boy and luckily I had these cute froggy fabric strips that i picked up at the quilt show.

I did the best I could with the fabric, made up some blocks and sewed them together in rows.

I used navy and turquoise for the border and machine quilted it all over.

Machine quilting detail.

I'm so glad to have another project finished.  Now I just have to wait for the baby's arrival, then I can embroider a label with all his birth details.

I'm linking this post to Bending Pins who is hosting this weeks TGIFF party.  Why not drop by and have a look at the other finishes this week.  Here is the link : http://bendingpins.com/2011/11/17/tgiff/

I'm off to sew now and I'll be back soon with more quilty stuff.
Have a good weekend.
Rhianon.

WIPs - Two Quilts for Christmas.

For some illogical reason, I decided that I would try and make my girls a quilt each for Christmas.  I had 2 jelly rolls kicking about in my stash and thought why not ?
There are a couple of Bonnie Hunter quilts I have wanted to make for a while now, so bit between my teeth....off I went.

This one is called Strip Twist and is easier than it looks.

A couple of plain borders and it's done.  It finishes at 72" x 58".  I used most of the jelly roll and have 9 strips left over which will be plenty for the binding and I may even have enough left to make a small matching cushion. 

On to the second quilt now.  This pattern is called Pineapple Blosson. 

These blocks finish at 12.5" and were fast and fun to make up.

Now to decide on which lay out ??

One of the best things about making the blocks is all the little bonus HST's you get.

I had fun playing with these and thought I could even make a childs quilt.......

.......but I have decided to use them for the border instead.

This is as far as it goes at the moment.  I will add a black dotty inner border before the HSTs.  Hope to get all that done today.   I still have a lot of strips of the jelly roll left over ..... I could make the quilt bigger but my girls don't want their quilts 'too big'!
Okay I can deal with that ! but the big question now is...will I get them quilted and bound in time for Christmas ??      I'll try my best.

You can find Bonnie and all her wisdom at  http://www.quiltville.com/

That's all for now.  Enjoy your weekend and thanks for visiting.

Rhianon.

Friday Finish - Anniversary Wall Hanging

I didn't think I was going to manage a finish but a few hours work last night and this was done !

It is a wall hanging for my sister in law and her husband to celebrate 20 years of marriage.

I decided to go with blacks and whites becasue that is the colour scheme of their living room.

Top - with decorative flowers.

Middle section - with hand embroidered details

Bottom section.

I machine quilted the whole piece, with feathers in the outer border.

I invested in one of those cute little hangers.  first time I've used one of them and I think they are great.  I can see me buying more of them.  It just finishes it off nicely and makes it easy to hang.

I'm linking this post to Laura's blog, Quokka Quilts.  She is very kindly hosting this weeks  TGIFF party.
So if you have something finished, head over there and post your link.  We'd love to see what you have been up to.

http://quokkaquilts.blogspot.com/2011/11/tgiff-black-n-white-and-red-all-over.html


Have a great weekend everyone!
Rhianon.

A Lovely Surprise !!!!

At the weekend I was blog hopping as you do and I spotted a comment from another Scottish quilter. So, off I went to this lady's blog and it turns out that she is a Scottish champion Quilter.  She won 3 rosettes at this years show!!!
Her name is Kay Bell and you can visit her blog here : http://borderlinequilter.blogspot.com/2011/10/one-hundred.html

For those of you who were at the show or remember my post about it, here is one of Kay's award winning quilts.

Kay is a very talented long arm quilter and as I decided to follower her blog , I was her 100th follower.
Look what Kay sent me in  the post this morning.

I can't believe it!  thank you so much Kay.  A selection of beautiful Christmas prints.  Aren't they lovely?  I am over the moon to say the least!

This is Kay's business card - just look at the incredible quilting.  fabulous!!!

This is the card Kay sent with my goodies.  It has a wholecloth designed by Kay on it.  Again brilliant work.
If you have a moment please go an look at Kays blog and become a follower.  You won 't regret it.

I just want to say a HUGE thank you to Kay for being so thoughtful and kind.
Rhianon.