This week I've been tidying up the Quiltery which was looking a bit the worse for wear and working on some nearly finished projects.
First up is this baby quilt for a friend's 4th son which I finished quilting over the Christmas holidays. I was waiting for my friend to decide on the name for her baby so I could finish up the label for this quilt and gift it. I made wonky stars in 2016 for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and have since made a couple of other quilts with those blocks. For this one I had enough blocks for just a small quilt so to make it a little bigger I sashed the blocks and pieced smaller stars in the intersections. I love the result.
The second project I've been working on is a Crosscut quilt. This was originally a QAL at A Quilters Table. I fell in love with this design when I made one for a quilt buddy in a swap. I had some leftovers from that project and decided to put them together into a similar quilt for myself. This one is special because some of the turquoise strips are from a hanky that was my mum's. Finishing it hasn't really been a priority though and has been on the back burner until I got my new sewing machine at the end of last year. It was a good project to try out the machine on because the construction method was quite forgiving and meant my seam allowance wasn't too critical (getting a new machine is a bit like learning to quilt all over again). After quilting it with lots of straight lines, I parked it again, but now (finally) it is getting facing.
I just wish these were the only two long term projects lurking the Quiltery.
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