Quilting Progress - Free Motion Quilting completed

I finished the quilting of the quilt today. I decided to give Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) a go and am very happy with the result. All up it took me about 3 hours to quilt and about 4 bobbins of thread. I love the gentle meandering of the lines all over the quilt, it really brings it to life. Now to bind the edges and it will be done.

Top of quilt

Backing

Quilting Progress - quilt top complete

Quilt top is now finished for Matilda's quilt. I wasn't too sure about all the colours when I first starting cutting up the fabric and making the blocks but now that I can see it all together, I am loving the bright colour combinations. There are certainly some "not quite so perfect" lines if you look really close, but I am happy with this first attempt at quilting and am sure that it will be the first of many! Now I just need to get some batting to quilt and then bind.

Close up of some of the blocks.

Quilting Progress

I have finally made a start on Matilda's quilt and these are just some of the blocks. There are 45 blocks to do and I only have 9 to go - yay! Then there are 3.5" x 3.5" squares all around the edge before the binding. I can't believe how quickly it is coming along and really want to get it finished now. The hardest bit so far has been the very fiddly 1.5" x 1.5" squares, they are so tiny!

ETA - Finished all the blocks now and layed them out roughly to get an idea of what it will look like. Still to add is the border of little squares all the way round, then the binding.

EB Kids Clothing Swap - what I sent off!

So here is what I sent off my my swap partner Kylie (who I don't think has a blog) for her little man Hartley who is 2 1/2 years old. Hartley is a very tall boy so I made clothes in sizes 3 & 4 to suit him. Mum Kylies requests were bright colours, overalls, sock monkeys and snakes so hopefully she is happy with what I came up with.

Pants, T-Shirt & Overalls

Overalls in Size 4 with yellow sock monkey lining and front pockets. I had bits and pieces of a very old pattern for these that the MIL gave me so had to make some pieces up, but I love how they turned out, so cute!
O+S Sandbox Pants in Size 3 with red sock monkey pockets Freezer Paper Stencilled T-Shirt of a snake

And a close up of the snakes tongue and eyes

EB Kids Clothing Swap - opening day!

Today is opening day for the EB Kids Clothing Swap! Thankyou Esther for this gorgeous outfit for Matilda. Unfortuately the shorts a too small but the dress/top is perfect and the little headband looks so sweet on. Thankyou again Esther, the colours really do suit her perfectly!

Front

Back

Some very fuzzy action shots of my little princess thinking it was very funny for mummy to be chasing her around the house trying to take her photo!

Finally I cornerd her in the bathroom . . . right next to the toilet! lol

I know that my swap partner has received her gift for the little man I was sewing for but has yet to post what she got, so once she does will post some pics of the outfits I made : )

Some new fabric & a trial run library bag

Some new fabrics I got in the mail today. I love the 'What do you see?' fabric which I am planning to use as little pocket on the fronts of library bags. The large panel nursery rhyme fabric is a lot larger than I thought as I had the same idea for this fabric but obviously much too big! Possibly good for little cushions, pencil roll outers or I'm not really sure what else? Then there is some beatrix potter fabric, alexander henry tumbleweed tots, sock monkeys and a tiny bit of some dinosaur fabric that I thought would be good for appliques on t's.

And a very rough make up of a library bag (much smaller than what I am planning) in dark green cord with the pocket front. I love this cord fabric which I have quite a bit of as well as some pale pink that I found on the bargain table at SL for just $1.50 p/metre.

EB Kids Clothing Swap - ready to send!

Well I am finished!

My parcel of clothes is all wrapped up and ready to send to the little person I was making for : )