Stars and Scattered Hearts Quilt

I finished this quilt yesterday.  It is a gift for a liitle girl, grandaughter of a friend of mine in America.  It's to say thank you for all the wonderful fabrics she sends me.

First time I've done machine applique and I quilted it on my domestic sewing machine. actually it's my only sewing machine!

More photos on my blog here.

Have a good weekend everyone.
Rhianon.

Thank you.....

I would like to thank Wendy and Dawn for our first free BOM.

Was a fun one to do. Will do more embellishments later.
Maria
http://maria-lifeontheblock.blogspot.com

My first finished this year and it is a re-finish

About 5 years ago I made a "Jeu de l'Oie" wall hanging from a pattern in "Marie-Claire Idees" for the birth of my friend's daughter. The "Jeu de l'Oie" is a traditional French board game.

The quilt took a few months to make as I did all the applique in each individual "square" by hand. She received her present when she was about 6-month old.

My friend hanged the quilt in her daughter's bedroom. However they remodelled their house about 2 years ago when baby # 2 was born and the quilt was too big for the new bedroom. As there was quite a large "border" around the quilt, my friend asked if I could trim the quilt to a smaller size. Of course I agreed and took the quilt back to reduce its final size. I took the binding off and trimmed the quilt off last year in the Spring. I then sew the binding back on again. Once the binding was on, I realised that I had stitched it to the back of the quilt rather than the front. I hate unpicking so I decided to try a decorative stitch on the front to finish the binding, also thinking that would be the faster option. Well, it looked awful and I really hated it. I only did half of the side length but the binding was moving slightly and the stitches were not consistant so that meant more unpicking to do :-( I was so annoyed with myself that I put the quilt aside and didn't touch it again until about a month ago when I was determined that the quilt would go back with my friend next time we saw each other (which was planned for last week-end). I took the quilt with me when we travelled back to France for our holidays and spent the journey unpicking my horrible decorative stitch. When that was finally over, I could sew the binding back on, making sure I put it on the front of the quilt this time. I blind stitched it on the way to our week-end and finished it off during the week-end so that I could finally hand it back (about half an hour before we all left).

Anyway, I am really pleased that I could hand it back over to my friend and that meant I could also cross this long-standing UFO off my list.
Celine

Wish Quilt

More progress on my Wish Quilt. I pulled fabrics from the stash to prepare the blocks surrounding the stitcheries. Some are appliqued and some are pieced. That chequerboard strip has a lot of little seams to match up. Not my favourite thing to do and there are a lot of chequerboard strips in the quilt!!!!!!!!!

I will be having short interlude to my UFO list to help the Gum Tree Designers flood appeal for
sewing kits. I think this deserves a high priority at the moment.

Have fun, bye for now from Liz