May already

Yesterday was spent finishing off the 5 pyjama tops to go with the bottoms I made ages ago. No pictures as they were claimed as soon as I'd pressed them!

Today I made my May Cherish blocks. These blocks are really pretty and we had to use the scraps as well to make little triangle blocks.

Houses part 2

February was my month to make the quilt for the Cherish group of do.Good Stitches. I asked everyone to make wonky houses. I've finally managed to put all the blocks together so now I can show you the top.

Secret project

It isn't that I haven't been sewing for the last 6 weeks, I have.




It's just that most of my time has been taken up by a secret project!

 I did finish the Star Wars quilts and they were very well received. They can currently be found lying all around the house, the location depends on how cold it is, they migrate from bedroom through the living spaces and back again.

 I have all the blocks for my do.Good stitches quilt from February and the top has come together nicely. I also have 3 blocks left over to piece into the back. March and April do.Good Stitches blocks have been made and received.

I had forgotten how much time the kids take up when they are home, having them at school for the last two years has spoiled me! They have adjusted much better to the return to homeschooling than I have, I'll have to start sewing at night again.

Star Wars

My twins turn 9 next month and they are both huge Star Wars fans. I found a couple of bundles of Star Wars Fabric to make them 'Snuggle on the Couch' quilts, apparently it gets cold enough in Melbourne to do that!

I was going to do all sorts of elaborate designs but the fabric really didn't lend itself to that, the images were far to big, so I went for a brick-path pattern instead. I managed to get two bricks out of each fat quarter and split them between the two quilts. The only difference between them is one boy got all the red prints and the other got all the green prints. Both tops have been approved and one is basted ready for quilting. I'm just going to quilt a quarter inch inside each brick.

I'm using this IKEA fabric for the backing on both quilts.

Houses

I was the host for the Cherish circle of do.Good stitches for February. I asked for wonky/improv houses. I'm still waiting on a few before I can put the quilt together but I can show you mine (which were finished in February, I'm just blogging late!)

I fussy-cut this one to get the girl on the swing and the girl catching butterflies.

More elephants.

I finally finished the two elephant quilts. It took me 2 days to finish them, apart from the binding on the second one, then it took a week to finish the binding!

  

I quilted from the back on both of them because the backing fabric had lovely circles to quilt around. They are quilted slightly differently, the blue one is more of a figure eight.

 For the pink one I went around the circles and joined between them with a line.

 All rolled up, side-by-side.

The backs. The binding is pieced from the left over fabric.

They finish a little bit small to be a really useful lap quilt but I really like them.

Two Elephants went balancing....

I bought these kits at Malvern in May last year. I love elephants, and it is a bit of a family joke when my kids keep asking annoying questions that my standard answer becomes "Elephant!". So when I saw these at the show I couldn't resist (I didn't actually push my friend out of the way but I did claim them very quickly).

They went together very quickly and I didn't have to unpick a single seam. It's taken 3 days to complete both quilt tops. Now I just have to decide how to quilt them!

I need to get my photographer brother-in-law to give me some lessons! Or take some picture for me,