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(another) baby quilt.

So about a week ago after I made the bunting for baby's room I looked at the leftover fabric and thought "I definitely need to make a quilt out of this". Thus began the quickest quilt I've ever made - 8 days in total. (Please excuse the random spade in photo).

I only had enough leftover fabric to make a rather small quilt - so I added a big border out of natural linen.

I also added the really cute "kids playing with toy horses" fabric by Heather Ross. I liked it so much I put a big band of it on the backing. When I went to buy more yellow spotty fabric for the binding, the women in the shop asked when I was due. They thought my response of "in 4 days" was pretty hysterical.

But I finished it in time. So that's it baby, you can come out now!

quilt.

Here is the secret project my friend Liz and I have been working on for about 8 months now. It's finally finished - and has been given to our friends for their recent wedding. The bride and groom chose the fabrics with us, which were based around the red and white toile above that they bought whilst in Paris. (So not entirely secret).

It's rather large - queen size with plenty hanging over the sides - which I was painfully aware of when hand sewing 8 metres of binding (whilst poor Liz had the task of cutting out all the squares).

The binding is linen, and the backing is striped ticking with a big panel of spots in the middle. We had it professionally quilted with a cloud pattern.

It was well worth the effort. I think it looks beautiful. Such a special wedding present for a truly deserving couple. Beats a toaster anyway.

i made it myself.

I actually started this quilt about 2 years ago. It's the second quilt I've ever made, but has taken me this long to finish hand-sewing the binding (which I finished in only a couple of hours on Saturday night - yes that's how I spent my Saturday night, rock.)

I'm not massively into this one, I think it's a bit too sweet and pretty (even for a quilt). But my mum loves and has convinced me to keep it for my daughter, if I should ever have one.

i made it myself.

Well actually I'm still making it, this is just the patch-worked top of my quilt. Next I either pay someone to quilt it (which is sewing a pattern through the top, batting and backing fabric) or quilt it myself with much cursing. Then add the binding which involves painstaking hand sewing. So realistically it will sit folded up in my study as it is for the foreseeable future.

This one is pretty geometric and simple compared to my other quilts, Tim approves.