Hi Peeps!
Yes I'm still here and sewing and quilting up a storm LOL so I thought I'd better hop to it before the year is out and start updating you on what's been happening before it all gets too overwhelming.
As this title says, we're sadly up to the last family baby....boohoo...despite repeated gentle nudging and outright complaining on my behalf to the younger siblings LOL there will be no more little bubbas around until the grandkids start arriving.
As my eldest is just turning 25 and has no intention of procreating anytime soon he informs me I'm just going to have to be patient and grasp hold of any random baby that crosses my path......yes that sounds creepy but I love me a good baby sniff...am I right??
Anywhooooo onto this quilt.
This is a fabulous quick and satisfying make that will take you back to the most basic of patchwork, the humble square.
It was a free pattern from the Cotton and Steel website by Kimberly Kight, but it seems to no longer be there which will be due to the designers leaving and taking their intellectual property with them.
You could easily work this out yourself though with a piece of paper and some coloured pencils...go on be creative have a go.
If you follow me on Instagram you would've seen my gorgeous niece sitting on this very quilt...go on scoot over and have a peek, she is delicious!! So her mother is equally lovely and being Korean she has quite the cutesy taste when it comes to fabric etc. Knowing this I used this long hoarded Michael Miller butterfly print and chose the other colours based on this.
With a girly Tasha Noel print as the centre piece. Quick note if you do decide to draught your own pattern, it is made by four equal segments using strip piecing and then a centre strip piece both horizontally and vertically to jin all 4 quadrants together...google it they'll be tips and patterns.
The backing was an American Jane piece of alphabet fabric I've had forever and I surrounded it with a red pin dot.
Sandra from Wise Owl Quilting did an all over pantograph of a Ginko leaf which was just the perfect choice
Incidentally this was the last quilt that I've had sent out to be quilted as some of you know I've purchased my own Gammill Statler longarm machine. And I'll let you know how that's going shortly.
Talk soon Peeps xx
