Giant Vintage Star Finish

Number 4 on my Finish Along 2014 Q2.
The Giant Vintage Star quilt is now finished and living in Kendal, Cumbria.  Luckily my friend loves it.  I used the free tutorial from  In Color Order

 

 

 

This quilt top was a very quick and easy make but looks great although it is quite large so a bit of a pain to quilt.  I kept it simple as my dodgy FMQ would have shown too much.

Overall I am more than happy with how this turned out and it was a present for a dear friend so all more for the good.

 

Happy stitching whatever you are making.

 

 



Medallion Finish

Number 2 on my Finish Along 2014 Q2  list is finished.

A Marcelle Medallion with a V and Co Kaleidoscope centre block looked like this

and now by magic it looks like this

 

 

A medallion style quilt is perfect to practice FMQ as there are lots of small areas to quilt and the scrappy fabric look hides a lot of not so perfect attempts at patterns.  Not all my piecing is precise either as everything seemed to come up larger so I had to cut in half a few triangles but hey ho!

The recipient has no sewing experience whatsoever so was very very pleased with her quilt.

So a success all round and I am very happy to be able to tick one of the list.

 

Happy sewing.

 



Swanky New Peg Bag

As all quilters know the post delivery can be the highlight of the day or even as in this case the highlight of the month.  I was part of a pay it forward type thing (I think that's what its called!) and Mrs Soy Amado of Little Island Quilting made me a peg bag.  I did not want a coat hanger type one so the bag Alison made was just the best.

So this is what I had

Now I have this

I have added a tag so I can clip on a carabiner and clip it to the line. 

So all in all the best sort of parcel.
Now I need some sunshine.

PS Click on the Flickr button on Little Island Quilting and be amazed with a riot of fantastic quilts
made as a collaboration with quilters worldwide and Alison.