My Creative Space

This week I am making a baby quilt.

Its for a boy, and I've used the last of my Paddington Bear fabric, which is pretty cool. I appliqued a little gingham elephant onto it.

Its pinned to the wadding & the backing , ready to be quilted. I will be adding binding to it made from this great tutorial from Burdastyle, and using the rest of the blue stripey fabric. Its the best tutorial ever on making continuous bias tape.

Will post finished pictures next week. And check out lots more creativity here.

Finished Quilt

Finished the quilt I was very happy with how the binding turned out, all the corners were perfect.

I am not mad about the colours though, I really used all my scraps. I was trying to pick masculine colours, though not sure I succeeded very well.

I do like the blue gingham border, I think it brings the quilt together in a blue sort of way.

I am going to gift it this weekend. And even though all my squares don't match up there was a lot of love put into it. Its for my Dad after all.

My Creative Space

This week I am playing along here.

Its a quilt for my Dad.

I have the top done. Each block is 7 inches in size. The quilt has been on my list of things to get started for ages. I plan to add some dark green sashing all around.

And then I only have to quilt it and add the binding, not my favorite part. This is the biggest quilt I've ever done, it will be 50 X 60 when done, so the quilting should be interesting. I hope he will like the colours.

Check out more creative goodness over at Kootoyoo.

Television Quilt

Now that the evenings are getting colder, and we have been having some frosty nights, I thought it was about time I made a quilt for relaxing on the sofa.

Most of the fabric is from Ikea pillow cases. I quilted it using a cross hatch pattern. Think thats what its called. The inspiration comes from here. I lined it with a nice warm fleece, and the backing is in red cotton.

 My daughter eventually agreed to model it in the garden.

All ready for cozy T.V. nights.

Patchwork cushion

Lately I've been quilting a lot. As a total beginner I have discovered a great blog all about quilting. She has loads of tutorials that are pretty easy to follow. This is one I made from one of her great tuts.

Its called mad mosaic floor cushion. And I like it, cos its meant to be wonky.

These are my 4 squares.

I used a dark coloured sashing to join my squares.

I did not quilt the back of the cushion, as I guess I just got lazy.

So if you're looking for some quilting inspiration check out Oh Fransson, you'll like it, I promise.

Quilts

Finally got round to sorting out my scrap drawer. I divided all of my scraps into bags of different colours.

See how nice?  I then thought I would some quilts with these scraps.
I made a blue one...

And I made a green one...

I know they are not perfect, but I just love how they look when they come together.