Made to make your mouth water

This is the latest quilt I have been working on. It was made from one charm pack of Moda Snippets by American Jane. The pattern was adapted from Jodi of SimplyThisThatandtheOther found at this link on the Moda Bakeshop. I made mine bigger with white squares inbetween each pinwheel and made more squares for the prairie points.

As I was quilting this, the colours actually made my mouth water - they remind me of the sweets called 'Starburst' now, but used to be called 'Opal Fruits' in the UK. I could actually taste the flavours of lime, lemon, orange and strawberry. It was lovely to step back in time and think of days when the only troubles I had on my mind were what sweets I should buy with my pocket money. Oh those were the days .... I still wouldn't swap them though for all the sweeties in the world.

I'll have to do more close-ups as the quilting on this quilt is just gorgeous - I stitched inside a 1/4" from each section of the pinwheels but then felt that the squares needed something extra. I bought a book recommended by Lynda of Master of Patience, called 'Quilting makes the Quilt' and found a lovely stylised daisy pattern that echoes the motif in the fabric. I also quilted round the edge with a meandering loop-d-loop with daisies.

My piecing and quilting skills are definately improving.

Anyway, I must dash now as I'm off to The festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham - I'm so excited!!!!

Caroline xxx

Thank you for your help.

I knew you lovely blogging buddies could help and I thank you from my heart, for helping me decide how to quilt my latest quilt. The consensus was to echo quilt the vines and flowers and cross-hatch or stitch-in-the-ditch the coin stack. After reading your comments I felt confident enough to give echo-quilting a try - for the first time. I was surprised at how easy it was to do, using the edge of the foot as a guide.

I also decided to stitch-in-the-ditch as I wanted the quilting to be fairly simple. I'm pleased with the result - I also added some buttons to give the flowers a little more effect.

Thank you all for your suggestions, you really are a helpful group of wonderful people.

Caroline xxx

Flower Garden Quilt - Please help!!!

My latest quilt is almost completed - that is the top is complete but I am having a little difficulty deciding how this one should be quilted.

It is a rather simple design based on coin stack using a charm pack in the Moda range 'Portugal' by April Cornell. I have hand stitched the vine on and added the applique flowers.

I am trying to steer clear of stippling and feel that this quilt should be kept quite simply quilted. I know how wonderful all you amazing quilting bloggers are and wondered if you had any suggestions. I will consider all suggestions, so hopefully it will be truly completed soon.

Thank you. Caroline xxx

Wow a Great Giveaway

Look at this amazing giveaway over at Quilting in the Valleys, here. It's gorgeous and I would love to win such a beautiful quilt.

Sailing Away Quilt Completed

I finally finished stitching the bias for this little quilt last night so that I could post you the pictures before the weekend. This has turned into one of my favourite quilts so far. I do love the colour combo of blue, red and white together, it's such a simple but effective design.

I showed a picture of how I was going to quilt it a couple of posts ago, but on reflection I thought the pattern was too fussy and I wanted to portray calmer waters so I have done a bit of a simple wave design with some curls.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Caroline xxx

Pinwheel Quilt

Recently I was asked to make a quilt for a new baby by a friend from Sweden. There was little time and the brief was red, blue and cream patchwork. I came across this design on Moda Bakeshop from Jodi of SimplyThisThatandtheOther found here . It was very easy and quick to do, I wasn't sure if the design would work with mixed coloured pinwheels, I used a charm pack from Moda's Zippity Doo Dah range, but I am more than happy with the finished article.

The quilt is winging it's way to a new baby boy in Sweden who is being Christened early next month. I hope he enjoys the quilt for many years to come.

Some Loop-d-loop quilting finished it off nicely.
Completed boat quilt and other exciting projects coming soon.

Caroline xxx

Sailing Away

The latest quilt I've been working at has been a boat themed quilt inspired by my honeymoon on the Isles of Scilly - I wish I could say that it was my design but I got this one from a book called Sew Fabulous Fabrics by Alice Butcher and Ginny Farquhar. They had designed the pattern for curtains but I think it works just as well on a child's lap quilt.


I'm on a mission to avaoid too much stipple/vermicelli and so far only two of my quilts have been quilted this way, the last one I quilted was loop-d-loop and now I'm going to have a go at creating waves - like these;

Hope everyone in the blogging community is well today. I can quite happily report that married life is going very well indeed!!