Ye Olde Schoole

This is one of my current projects. Well it will be in a couple of years time when it is finished. It will be a hand sewn paper pieced quilt using 4cm hexagons and old clothes.

So far I have the remnants of 2 mens shirts, 2 boys shirts, a boys bandana and an old nightie, all cut up into 2 1/4" squares.

I've made myself this little travel kit using one of the Bodyform tins. It fits about 30 squares of fabric and paper hexagons, a couple of needles, a thread bobbin, a very handly little thread cutter and a broken needle threader.

This is a really handy little tin, it fits nicely in my handbag so if I'm sat around waiting I can sit and sew a hexagon or two.

One thing to remember. If you are sewing whilst driving, well travelling, obviously not actually driving, be prepared to jab yourself in the thumb. A lot!

Cumbria Layouts

I did do a couple more layouts but these are the only ones which are complete. A double 12 x 12 layout 'lifted' from Ali.

The multi photo approach works really well here I think, especially as all the photos I had needed trimming down anyway.

I love the clean simple lines of both layouts. The corners of the next one, another 12 x 12, are stick on plastic thingies I got from Tescos and the border is embroidery thread, three shades of green.

This layout needs some journalling once I can figure out where and when. Obviously the actual photos have faces but this is a public blog afterall.

Teddy's Quilt

Here is a 12" square quilt I made for Teddy.

Well actually I made it to practice my free motion quilting hence the 'thrown together' top, just scraps from my fabric box, but I thought Teddy might appreciate some bedding more his size.

There was definitely an issue with tension, sometimes the top thread was looping through at the bottom. Not sure if that was something to do with the speed of my quilting as sometimes it was fine and others not, all without making any changes to tension settings. Will have to practice some more and have a chat with my, font of all things quilting, friend.

Baby Quilt

This is the 3rd quilt I have ever made, all baby quilts so far. The quilt is made from moda flannels. I didn't realise how stretchy flannel is and how much harder than regular quilting cotton it is to work. Still, I'm happy with the end result, even if it is not very square!