Spot the Imposter!

There's been a little more secret sewing in my sewing room this week, as well as another round of Brit Bee Medallion Mystery!

Jo's medallion

I've been a snotty mess this week, though feeling much better now.  But it has meant a few sleepless nights, so I thought I'd put them to good use. 

I got this journal cover made for my daughter's friend's birthday at 2am this morning.

And I got my tax return submitted at 1.30am earlier in the week!

I also did a few more stages of this class sample, at stupid o'clock this week!

This is the Overs and Unders pattern by Kim Brackett.  I made one for my mum's 70th last November. She likes it so much I couldn't ask it back off her again, so I decided to make another one using a Happy Go Lucky Jelly Roll.

Now the jury is still out regarding my choice of fabrics and background fabric (Kona Ash). I get a bit fed up using white all the time (even though it lends itself really well to the modern fabrics currently on the market), but I'm not sure I've got enough contrast here. 

It is a bright sunny day today, so the colours are more saturated in reality than you see here.  But I'm hoping when I get the borders on and get it quilted it might grow on me more.

And the imposter?  I slipped in 2 jelly roll strips that aren't Happy Go Lucky! Can you spot them?

Jxo

Isn't it funny .....

.... when you fall in love with a collection of fabric and you just want to keep making things with it?

I had some leftovers from the Fig Tree Avalon fabrics I used to make mum's quilt. So I decided to make her a matching cushion.

I tweaked Kim Brackett's Overs and Unders pattern a bit to get a section of the quilt pattern to fit a 20" cushion cover, and stippled it to match the quilt.

One of the things I love about this set is that only 26 jelly roll strips (plus some yardage) were used across the 2 items!

The big birthday celebrations and quilt handover will happen this Saturday! I hope there will be lots of smiley faces!

Jxo

P.s. a very talented student of mine has just set up a gorgeous wee Etsy shop. Read all about it here, and go check it out!

Overs & Unders Over and Out!

It's finished!

Yesterday I showed you the quilt top of Kim Brackett's Overs and Unders pattern I'm making for mum's 70th birthday. 

I had a productive day yesterday and got this lap size quilt quilted and bound.

Finished size 60" x 60"

I decided to free motion the quilt, playing it safe with a large organic stipple!  I was going to add some applique flowers to the star centres, but now that I see the quilting through them, I think it would be too fussy.

I machine sewed the binding down for speed, as I've still loads to do before our exhibition on 9/11.

All I need is a label for this quilt and it's another tick off my humongous list! Fingers crossed mum will like it when she gets it in a couple of weeks time.

Jxo

Overs and Unders

It was actually too sunny yesterday when I was trying to photograph this quilt top!

This is called Overs and Unders, and was inspired by this beauty.

My mum's 70th is the first weekend in November so this will be for her.  I made dad a Civil War quilt for his 70th so I couldn't not make mum a quilt too!

I really love Fig Tree Quilts fabrics at the moment, and their nod to vintage patterns and prints.  I used an Avalon Jelly Roll for this one.

I have plans to add a bit of applique to those star centres, but first I need to crack on with the quilting if I'm going to get this finished in time for the birthday girl!

Jxo