Quilt in an afternoon...?

I am bored waiting for this baby. I have 8 days to go before my due date - and that's even if the baby comes on time! I hate the not knowing when, and the fact that I'm generally very 'twingy' and 'niggly' is not helping! In a fit of boredom/nesting/industriousness earlier this week, I ordered this lovely jelly roll. It is no secret anymore that this baby is a boy, and seeing as I've not yet got round to making him a quilt I am thinking of an afternoon project! It will have to be very simple with minimal cutting, and I'm sure that piecing a quilt top before the school run is far too ambitions an afternoon project - but it will give me something to do!

Maternity Leave!

I'm on maternity leave! Well, technically not, seeing as I am a homemaker and I don't have paid work outside the home! However, I have hit the 38 weeks mark and I think its probably time to slow down a little bit. I find this extremely difficult as I normally exist in a hive of activity, so in a bid to chill out a bit I've taken up crochet.
Let's get one thing straight, I AM the world's worst crocheter. My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was quite young - I managed to learn from just looking at what she was doing so as a consequence developed a very strange left handed technique much to my mother-in-law's horror. She has been very patient (but probably secretly frustrated)with me in trying to correct my bizarre technique. I think it has finally paid off and I may have mastered the correct right handed technique! Yesterday evening was spent on my family room sofa crocheting some very retro granny squares, as inspired by Attic 24. The pics of what I've accomplished thus far are above - you can just about make out baby bump too. The yarn is just some left over Sublime merino DK I had in the house, but I am excited to say that I've taken delivery of some lovely yarn this morning to make something 'proper'!

More pics

It's a lovely, sunny, albeit cold day here today so I took the opportunity to snap some more pics of my most recently completed quilt!

Another Baby Quilt

It seems that a lot of my friends have been having babies of late so I've been kept quite busy! Not to mention the fact that I should probably make my own one at some point - due in 2 and a half weeks so rapidly running out of time!!

This quilt is made for Jean-Luc, baby son of my friends Sarah and Xavier. Sarah and I shared a flat in London when we were students. She knitted Sophia a beautiful blanket when she was born so it seemed apt to make Jean-Luc something handmade too.

The inspiration for this charm squares quilt can be found here. I really liked the idea of separating the 5" squares with the white fabric - a great way of making prints go further or using up scraps. The fabric itself is from a bundle I bought at Fabric Rehabjust before Christmas - I LOVE the vintage zoo print! The amusing thing is that completely by accident I have made this quilt in red, white and blue and baby Jean-Luc is half French!

I stippled the quilt top, which I love doing, and the binding is a scrappy one made from the fabric leftover after I cut out the charms. It was washed and dried and I am soooooo glad I put colourcatcher in the wash as the red fabric bleeding would have been a disaster!

Maggie's Quilt

Happy New Year

I love the start of a New Year - I get quite obsessed about organisation and cleaning, although this year I'm not sure how much of it is 'nesting'! I've lots of little projects I want to finish over the next few weeks pre-baby but am not sure how much I will achieve!

The pics are of the Christmas quilt I finished just before the old year was out. The quilt top was actually finished pre-Christmas but I didn't quite get round to the basting, quilting and binding. The fabric is from the discontinued Moda line 'Figgy Pudding' by Basic Grey. I used a Charm pack and framed each square I used with 2.5" strips cut from a dessert roll of the same line. The quilting is a bit wonky in places but I was desperately trying to finish the thing! Sophia had plenty of time to cwtch under it before returning to school yesterday.