Emmaline bag

Pant pant pant, busy getting blog psots done ahead of the deadline for Q4 of this year FAL!!! 

I am SO chuffed with this, No. 9 on my Q4 FAL list An Emmaline retreat bag, this is a free pattern a FREE pattern! and how well  written it was, a delight to work with. and so quick, in total i think it took a couple  of hours. Pattern from Emmaline bags

I love the fabric. I remember buying it at the 2017 FOQ Im fairly certain lovely Ruth also bought it. I still have tons left!

I loved making this so much I have sent away for the wires to make the bigger size which has a slightly more complicated looking inner pocket but the pattern is so well  written i dont think it will be an issue.

Reveille part deux

No 6 on my 2018 Q4 FAL list I had a weakness for charm packs ... please note the past tense. My lovely quilty friends Ruth and Claire are under strict instructions not to let me purchase any more at the FOQ. I love them but what the heck do you make with them? the only patterns i could find meant you had to cut them up impossibly small, im just not up to that any more. I do have a few left to use up but this quilt did use up a fair few of them. The pattern is Reveille from 'Another bite of schnibbles" I love the big border i added to size it up for siblings together. Its an early Zen chic line. It gives it a fuzzy out of focus look which i love.

Doesnt everyone baste over the bannisters :-)

I played bobbin chicken and won!

Year of scrappy triangles

This was No  2 on my 2018 FAL Q4 list A year of scrappy triangles by Leila Gardunia this was such a fun sew along. Great free patterns and i will use them again I think. What always amazes me about scrappy quilts is that they seem to generate more scraps than they use! 

Hey ho, it will go to Project linus where i hope it will be loved.

Batik jelly roll

Flip i didnt meant this to publish but since it has might as well finish it off! this was No 7 on my 2018 Q4 FAL list

 

It was a jelly roll from ea destash by Archie the Wonderdog. i must have got it over a year ago and knew what pattern i wanted to make with it but needed to get a coordinating fabric. I got the yellow at the FOQ this year, its very bold but i do love it. 

Some out takes from the husband holding quilt photo shoot :-)

New York beauty

Another finish! No 1 from this years FAL Q4 list I started this well over a year ago at the Thistle Patch retreat organised by Katy Cameron. These were some patterns we got at the retreat. I really enjoyed making them using up my Zhandra Rhodes fabric but i want do make a whole New York beauty with some other fabrics to thought I would just leave this one here and make a double sided mini.

Christmas cushion along

How cute is Rudolph?? He joins my other Christmas cushions, ive joined in with the #christmascushionalong hosted by Archie the wonder dog ever year. Ive been wanting to make this Unicorn Hearts pattern for ages, this seemed like a perfect time to do it. Used up a lot of my favourite Rudolph fabric too.

Henry the Horsie!

No 5 on my FAL 2018 Q3 list! Henry the Horse. Another fab pattern by Tartan Kiwi. Using my horded stash of Ardently Austen fabric. Im too late for the link up but i like to be completist :-) This was mostly done at one of this years Gartmore retreat.

Classic meets modern! another finish!

Number 2 on my FAL 2018 Q3 list, blimey im motoring on here! this was supposed to be a BOM by Myquiltinfatuation but im a bit rubbish at those and just went and finished it way ahead of time. Love the layout, used up a lot of dashwood in this. a fun bright quilt, destined for siblings together.

 Fabulous quilt holding from the fabulous Scoobs!

A leaving present

Oh my goodness where to begin?? well the beginning is a good place. Before i go any further lets just mention that this is me ticking off no 3 on my FAL Q3 list

I was in the process of leaving the jobi  had been in for 11 years a long time. My boss who has been a good boss and friend loves Japanese fabric and also loves the swans we have on campus, so it really was a no brainer to make her the Tartan Kiwi swan pattern in japanese fabrics. i knew exactly what i wanted to do, just needed to make sure i had enough fabrics.

The putting together was relatively straight forward, thanks to Juliets brilliant patterns this came together quite quickly.

Of course I had to get a picture of it on the campus

 And my favourite floofy pal had to photo bomb!

Zen chic traingles quilt

Awwwww look at my ace quilt holder, mind you he is such a prima donna since he heard about the husbandsholdingquilts hashtag ......

I do love this quilt, a wee bit different from my usual? but do I have a usual? I don't really know? this is from a pattern by the lovely Brigitte Heitland - Zen chic, it was a quilt along on the Bernina blog. I did enjoy it and love the pattern but I don't think I am very good a long term commitments, unless it is to my wonderful quilt holder! I do have a fairly brief attention span ..... but anyway I love the quilt and its off to siblings together for a happy home.

Making the triangles was not terribly difficult neither was making up the quilt top but its another big one .... was a bit of a brute to quilt!

Sea anenonononemone

Its just one of those words i cant pronounce ..... but you have to admit its a beautiful quilt non? 😊

Here is my wonderful quilt holder, he's a keeper isn't he :-)

Pattern by Lilysquilts for quilt now magazine

Just adore this Koi carp fabric

Challenging but so worthwhile, another fab finish!

Zen Chic triangles quilt

well this was a fun but challenging quilt to make! a free quilt along with Zen Chic and the Bernina blog, the triangles werent too bad once i got the hang of them and putting it together was ok but it was HUGE!
 

Mahoosive liberty quilt

Here that noise?? Its me squeaking in with one last finish on my Q1 list 😂😂 this wss number 3 on the list.

Its done !! My husband (ower Scoobs) doing a grand job of showing off the finished mahoosive Liberty quilt top. His poor arms wont stretch to the full 98 , yes 98 inches in width .... i really must get better at realising how big quilt tops are going to be! I got it back this week from the fabulous Cath, @cumbrianlongarmer. And what a stunning job she did.

Here are some shots of it at Gartmore, which is fitting since it was started here last summer.

Under a chandelier, budthepuppy would approve😊

The pattern is a Susan Briscoe one from one of the early editions of Todays Quilter, a supplement on medallion quilts.

See those tins? I took all my liberty stash with me when making these!

144 flying geese

Had to stand on rocking chair squidged up in a corner to do this!

Ahhhhhh almost the point of no return!! I wasnt paying attention to the piecing and it was getting dangerously squint. I had to take middle out and re piece ....

At Gartmore putting on final border

And a final shot of the lovely Mark who has now become a right prima donna now he knows about the #husbandholdingquilts hashtag 😂😂😂