Ooops!!! Post the Third etc....

So I completely got caught up in life and forgot I hadn't posted about the remaining craft projects I completed for Christmas 2011.

So here goes...


This is a pic of the pink quilt I made for my cousin...just because.


It started out as a small jelly roll of 2.5 inch strips.  I then had to decide on how I wanted the strips to come together. I drew out the sequence on some graph paper with coloured pencils. I had enough strips to do 3 panels, but decided on two. So I very meticulously joined one lot of strips together along the long side, and created a sort of tube.  Then cut 2.5 inch strips across all the colours. To sew the cut strips into the above sequence, I undid which ever seam would create the design. The I joined then all together, trying to match up all the seams as perfectly I as I could manage.  This being the first of these type of quilts there are some that are just not matching.

The sashing is some of the tea dyed calico I made a while back. This is also 2.5 inches in width.  I then had to go out and find complimentary pinks for the boarders.  The first boarder is a pale pink on white mottled cotton and is 4.5 inches wide. The next boarder is plain calico and is 2 inches wide, and the final boarder is bright pink floral on white cotton and is 3.5 inches wide.


The backing fabric was picked on the fly while I was out shopping for the material for the Green Place-mat set.  I used the remaining jelly roll strips to help widen the backing as the bright pink material was not wide enough.




I had help sandwiching the quilt, I used a cotton/bamboo blend wadding.  I decided to do a combination of hand quilting and machine quilting on this one. 'Cos why not challenge myself?  I used a template of a Japanese flower and hand quilted through all layers with a variegated pink cotton.  So there are 3 big flowers in the centre, and one small flower in each far corner as well.  I then machine quilted straight lines in diagonal from each centre flower and 'V' shapes on the inner boarders, and straight lines connecting each boarder flower.




The material I used for the binding was a tie dyed cotton of bright blues and purples and pinks.  I totally forgot to take a photo of the label sewn onto the back.  Might have to get my cousin to take a shot and I'll add it later.