Quilt (Back) in a Day

I have my quilt back ready to go!

This part was easy enough, just piecing together 2 types of fabric.

The main fabric is some I sourced locally about a year ago (has it been that long??) from textile shop here in Ampang. I bought this originally intending to make ironing board covers... I'm glad I didn't, because I love how it's turned out on this quilt back.

I've added a strip of yellow fabric from the Dream On range for some variety, and also to make up the width.

I'm particularly loving this quilt back, as it reminds me of sunny days outdoors. Think: Lolling about on the grass, daisy chains and butterflies - bliss!

Next up - quilting in a day?

Quilt (Top) in a Day

After piecing together my string quilt, I needed a nice and easy project. One that was fairly quick, with no measurements, no calculations, no trial and error (read : no seam ripper!).

And what easier way to piece a quilt I ask, than to use charm packs.

Now I lurrrve charm packs, as if you don't know already :-)

So into my sewing cupboard I went, and picked out a couple of these lovelies:

(Sorry, I did take a proper photo of the REAL charms, together with some coordinating fabric, but it's disappeared now, can't find it anywhere in the camera...)

Then I played around with them for a bit.

And took them to my old Singer,

And then in all of one afternoon, voila! :

Let's see that again, ehehee!

Yummy, yum yum :-)

Happy week ahead everyone!

Stringed Top Finished

This one took a little while, didn't it?

Better late than never, though, I say, so here is the finished quilt top:

Materials used:

1 Honey Bun (I used Moda's Hello Betty)

About 1/2 yard solid white

1 yard solid green.

And let me tell you thank goodness I only needed 1 yard of the green, because it was all I had of this particular shade, and I would have been in trouble if I needed more as I can't remember exactly what the solid is. I think it's Bella Solid in Pistachio, but I'm not sure...

I'm not quilting this one just yet. Mainly because I haven't enough batting, but also because I haven't decided how I want to quilt it yet.

Should I stick to straight lines, or should I attempt some free motion? Suggestions most welcome... :-)

For the backing I'm using a black and white print, which I hope will complement the black and white prints in the Honey Bun. This is also from Moda, but the name of the print escapes me now. I've got it pieced on the vertical with some leftover strips.

Quilting soon. 

Or not so soon. We'll see...

Hope everyone has a happy week ahead!

More Strings

Almost, almost there!

I must say this quilt top is taking its time to come together. 

Slowly, slooooowly but (hopefully!) surely. 

This is what it looks like now:

And this is what it looks like on the drawing board:

If you mix the blocks around a bit:

Hmmm.... decisions, decisions...

Happy sewing!

Pillow for Dad

Hullo hullo!

We had Father's Day a couple of weekends ago, so all of us (minus  Little Brother who is Away) got together to celebrate Dad.  

By coincidence it was also Nephew's 7th birthday, so we had a right party we did, hee! 

I wanted to give Dad something different this time, you know, other than the usual golf paraphernalia, books etc, so I hunkered down the day before and made this applique and patchwork pillow:

Now I'm usually very wary of applique as I'm absolutely useless at it, but for this pillow I had no such qualms because I know that Dad would not judge. Don't take my word for it, but what fun you will have when you throw caution to the wind!

My favorite bits are the Super Mario blocks. These are iron-ons - aren't they just adorable? They're Nephew's favorites too, so I thought I'd add them as a little surprise.

And a picture of the back:

I had another little iron on left, so I used this to make a label for the pillow on the back. Just before it was presented, we wrote our messages  on it with a waterproof pen.

Hope you like your pillow Dad, we love you - Muah!

P.S. If anyone's wondering, Nephew received a magnifying glass from his Auntie :-)

WIP : String Quilt

It's been a CRAZY (being polite here - seeing as is public blog - otherwise be using more colorful language) week at work, but I'm adamant to keep sewing.

Even if all I can manage is a block a day.

I suppose it's a way for me to make sure that I don't get overwhelmed with work stuff, a reminder that there are other things in life aside from mergers and liquidated damages and other seemingly pointless subjects that sometimes make me go "why oh why?".

And so, although progress on the Hello Betty string quilt is somewhat slow, progress there is:

My pile of string blocks is definitely growing, hurrah!

I've got 22 down to pat. 14 more blocks to go.

The Stork is Back!

You know what, I was getting a little worried for while.

You see, I've been making these little baby quilts, but the stork hasn't been visiting my end of the world for some time. I'm sure you've noticed that I've put some of them up for sale (baby quilts, not storks), hoping they'd find a good home.

But I'm soooo happy that in the last week, two little cuties were born!

So I've been able to gift 2 of my quilts away :-)

First we welcomed a baby girl at work, and everyone thought she'd like "Cupcake Party":

Then just a few days after, Mr Tan from down the road received his first grandson. I let Yummy Hubby pick out a gift and he thought "Sunny Baby" would do the trick nicely:

I hope the little angels enjoy my quilts as much as I've enjoyed making them.

Congratulations all around! Muah!