Sienna's Quilt

My friend has just adopted a 2 year old little girl called Sienna. It gave me the perfect excuse to make a quilt! The fabric is all from the Tilda range which I bought as a quilt top kit. It was one of the many purchases I made when I went to the Quilt Festival in Malvern in October. The kit contained a selection of Tilda fabrics cut into squares allowing me to either follow the pattern or arrange them myself - I chose the latter. The quilt is bake by a lime green spotty fabric, also from the Tilda range. The quilting is again very basic - I quilted 1/4 inch from the seams in the vertical direction. I also quilted diagonally across the four patch blocks.

My first Christmas Quilt

One of the things I love about Christmas is getting out my collection of decorations. Many of the ornaments evoke specific memories of past Christmases or places where the decorations were bought. Since my daughter, Sophia, was born I've started accumulating Chistmassy books and films which come out every year. With this in mind I decided to make 'Christmas Quilt'. This was quite an undertaking for me as I only started quilting in September. The quilt is made from a jelly roll - the fabric being from Moda's 'Merry and Bright' range. I used the 'Pandora's Box' pattern from 'Jelly Roll Quilts'.

The quilting is very basic - I've quilted around the blocks 1/4" from the seam. Initially I started stippling over the quilt, which was admittedly ambitious for a first project! I spent a whole week undoing the experiment - mainly because the stippling was so small it would have taken me a month to cover the quilt top! I also learned that it is best to use the same colour thread on the top and bottom of the quilt when stippling. All valuable lessons learned! I love my Christmas quilt and hope it will come out year after year!

A new blog for me!

I have been blogging off-and-on with my friend Lisa of Baysideknitpickers since April of this year. Since my little girl started full time school in September I've rekindled my love of sewing and have started quilting amongst other things!! I basically wanted to branch out from the knitting blog and write about all aspects of my creative life! I hope this will become a place I can record projects and brainstorm! Wish me luck!