SBChallenge - Flimsey 12 begins ...

Here are the fabrics I have picked out of my challenge pile for the next quilt. This one is going to use the pattern Posts & Rails by Judy Martin - currently available free online here, although the free pattern changes periodically. The floral and greens are going to be the rails and the beiges the posts.

I should have JUST enough fabric to make a lap-sized quilt to go to the nursing home :)

Colourwash Finished.

Managed to get the quilting done this weekend, so now the quilt is finished. Just a simple all-over loop-d-loop with hearts was fast and simple. It doesn't matter with this pattern if your hearts aren't all the same size/shape ... in fact it is better if they vary widely!

This is the 11th quilt I've made since I started my stash-busting challenge in July. This busted 3 pieces of fabric completely - backing, inner and outer borders - plus some of the florals used to swap at the colourwash night were from my challenge pile too! In fact only the binding fabric was from 'other' stash.

I decided that as the backing was dark floral I would use up all the 'odds & sods' left over on bobbins from other quilting jobs - I emptied 6 bobbins! I also used 3 assorted pastels in the top quilting as each spool had a little left, but not enough for a full baby quilt. So a good stashbusting job all-round :)

Colourwash is a flimsey ...

The colourwash squares are now a finished quilt top. Gina left a very good comment on my last post saying "I wouldn't go too overboard with the borders though as it might overwhelm the centre design." How right she was! This soft floral was the best fabric I had in stash to do the border - several other options were just too strong. I used the wrong side of a cream floral to seperate the two areas.

I may not get a chance to get to the quilting on this one until next weekend, but I really want it done and finished by month end :)

Colourwash revisited ...

Do you remember a while back I showed some colourwash squares we played about with at a Guild night? The following month a member brought along a finished quilt where she'd used her squares to make a heart shape, rather than a circle/wreath. I decided to revisit my squares and see if I could copy that idea and this is what I've come up with. I'll keep it on the design wall for a couple more days to be sure I'm happy with it, but I think with a couple of borders this will make a nice incubator cover :)

SBChallenge - Xmas Quilts Finished!

Here are my finished quilts made from my xmas stash fabrics. The first one used up lots of little pieces which I cut into 5" squares. I had intended to arrange them randomly, but I ended up forming diagonal rows of same/similar prints.

The second is a large off-centre 9 patch and used up the rest of the larger pieces. When I assessed what was left I had just enough to make one of the little quilts that they use to nurse the babies in the Special Care Baby Unit - these little ones go home with the babies when the leave. The larger, incubator covers, stay in the unit and get washed to death!!

These bring the total number of quilts made in my Stash Busting Challenge to 10 and my xmassy fabrics are gone :)

SBChallenge - Xmas fabrics progress ...

I've managed to make two incubator covers (36" square) and one tiny quilt (16" x 20") from my xmassy fabrics. In addition the smallest and one of the others is also quilted, so I've been making good progress.

I've been playing with adding holly shapes into simple quilting patterns on these. In the first picture (shown on the backing fabric), I quilted straight rows first, then revisited each row and added holly and berry shapes with FMQ. In the second I did an all-over freemotion meander and randomly added holly shapes into the mix.

One more to quilt, then binding and labelling, before I'll share pictures :)

SBChallenge - Xmas fabrics

I've promised a couple of incubator covers for the middle of this month out of the Christmassy fabrics in my Stashbusting Challenge pile.

I'm planning on going very simple and to use the fabrics up completely. Above are the scrappy fabrics I have - all smaller than FQ ...

... and here are the yardage pieces, from less than 1/3 metre to about 1 metre.

I need to get creative :)