In 2014 I travelled to New Zealand with my elderly mother for a 2 week holiday. We had a great time exploring the South Island, the fabric shops and amazing scenery. We may have come back with a little bit of fabric. This fabric is now a quilt. (Forgive the photo quality please).
The fabrics purchased in NZ were supplemented with some of mum's hand dyed fabrics.
This was the first time I tried spiral quilting and have to thank Jacquie Gering and her Crafsy class for getting me started. Slow and steady is all I can say about spiral quilting.
The backing is from stash and shows of the spiral really well. The finished quilt measures 60 x 60 inches.
I love the colours in this quilt. It is on my Quarter 3 Finish Along List also. I will link up with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday.
Happy Stitching
Jenell
I finally finished the Pink Bear Quilt and passed it onto the the Grandma to be for her granddaughter due next month. These bears were great to make and I am very happy with the final quilt. The Bjorn the Bear pattern by Elizabeth Hartman was easy to follow and despite it feeling like there were a lot of pieces in each bear they came together fairly quickly.
All fabric came from my stash and given the request was for a more pastel quilt than I would usually make I enjoyed sorting through my fabrics to find them.
I love the Jelly Bean fabric.
The quilt measures approx 51 x 63 inches. I wavy line quilted it myself and the 2 fat quarters on the back were the fabric originally purchased by Grandma to meet the Woodland theme before baby's gender was known.
One last picture.
Happy stitching everyone.
Jenell
Quarter 2 was a bust! I was working on a Mystery Quilt Top swap and didn't really get anything else done. On the bright side my Mystery top is completed well before October. So here is my Quarter 3 list (looks very much like my Quarter 2 list).
1. All Linked Up -Slightly closer to finished. It is now basted and just needs more muscle built up to push it through my little old Bernina to bring it to a finish.
2. New Zealand Plus Quilt - This one needs labelling and binding. Hopefully it will be finished soon.
3. Bright Birch - I am taking this one on retreat at the end of July to get it put together.
4. Starry Night - I had to unpick a block due to a silly error. I need to put that block back together and get on with it. I also think I have the border sitting the wrong way in this photo.
5. Jelly Roll Rain - This is still waiting to be basted and then finished.
Good Luck to everyone participating. I love seeing what everyone else is making.
Happy stitching
Jenell
