Owls and Spots Baby Quilt

I have had this quilt top finished for a month or so, and rather than finish it off I started a couple of other quilts.

Whoops! I now have two part-pieced quilts on the go, another quilt top ready to quilt, and a birthday quilt to start for my friend's daughter who turns 3 in a couple of weeks. And now I've written it all down I feel quite overwhelmed... I guess I'll just knuckle down and get it done (its a good thing its something I love, hey?)

Anyhoo, I was really undecided about how to quilt it - and even when I was half-way through quilting this one I had a bit of a panic attack and seriously wondered if it was going to look ok. But once I'd finished it and bound it I changed my mind - I really love it! The texture looks great - the lines are uneven widths in the most part, and some are wavy (which was deliberate... although my other-half's first comment was "but some of them aren't straight! and they're all different widths!", which kind of didn't set my heart at ease :/) - but I think it suits the fabric. And I love how it looks on the back of the quilt too.

This one is available for purchase here.

happy stitching!
Jess

Zoo Quilt #1

A friend of mine asked me to make a quilt for her sister who (was) having a baby. I finished the quilt last night, and bub was born this morning so it was awesome timing really!

 The design brief was pretty simple - not girly (as her sister isn't really into girly girl, plus they didn't know the sex of the baby), and something with animals and bugs. I had a bundle of Urban Zoologie by Ann Kelle (and some coordinating Kona solids) in my stash and it fit the bill perfectly, so I went ahead and created. I ended up making A LOT of blocks (something like 60...) so I actually put together two quilt tops for her to choose from (plus a few left over for a third quilt). This is the one she chose:

Its a bit hard to see from the photos (taken in a rush as my baby had a very brief sleep) but I quilted it using a variegated blue thread. And I ran out of the blue, green and orange in the quilt top, so had to make a dash to Spotlight to grab some binding fabric - its a darker blue than in the top, but works really well with the bahama blue. The backing fabric is some minty-green solid I had stashed and I really love the combination with the binding. I love the fact that this quilt doesn't really have a right-way-up, since the animals run every way across the fabric.

I am a little sad I've used up all my urban zoo stash in the bermuda colourway - I LOVE the colours in this range. But I have another two quilts to finish off using these fabrics, so stay tuned! All three are quite different, despite using similar blocks...