Emily's Quilt...Chapter 2 and a half!!

...in which I finish the centre piece!! Yay!!! This is really just an "add-on" post to yesterday's...as I ran out of time to finish it off...So this morning on managed to squeeze in a bit of sewing...

...As I was joining the rows together I found it easier to manage by rolling the fabric and pinning...this way it was easier to manoeuvre through the sewing machine...

I know the finished item is promised to my daughter...but I am loving the colours in this one...so vibrant and "spring-like"...Next step is edging...and then I need to read and learn how to layer my quilt...oh and buy the materials needed...batting and backing...

Plus I have now got together a pack of fabrics ready to start a quilt for my son...I am hoping he will like the colours and patterns I have chosen...I am toying with a hexagon quilt...like this one that my sister in-law is currently making...

All of the above materials were from Kate's shop M is for Make...aren't they fabulous!?! Well that's all on the quilting front so far...next up...side and top panels...keep watching and reading...

Emily's Quilt...Chapter 2...

...in which I actually get some sewing done!! I made the conscious decision to crack on with Emily's quilt this week...I knew we were going to be eating "Out of the Freezer" for the majority of the week (As in eating all the frozen 'other halves' of the meals cooked in the last fortnight or so...) which meant I would be freed up to sew!!

Emily's Quilt...an update...

...Hmmm it's been a while since I got all excited about making a quilt for my eldest...Chapter 1 is here...In the interim period, time and life has passed us by at an astonishingly high speed, we are now 2 months down the line and all I have managed to do is wash the squares of fabric (84 of them)...

 Make a mess doing it...luckily I had the sense to bag the squares in an old pillowcase before popping them in the machine!!

However, the temporary stitches I put through them to hold the rows in their order (which I thought was a great idea) didn't work, so I now have 84 separate charm squares once more...!! At least I took a photo of the order they were in before washing!!

So my next jobs are trimming all the threads that are hanging from the squares and re-ordering the rows before starting to join them...hopefully next week will give me a few moments to crack on with it...don't give up on me...keep watching...this UFO will not get the better of me!! 

Emily's Quilt...Chapter 1...

Now that the pillow mat is finished I have a sewing gap in my life...although as I mentioned before I need a new cover for my sewing machine...but Emily (the 10  year old female smallish person) has a different idea! After visiting her cousins last weekend and seeing this...I was asked if I can make one for her...now I am going to start slowly (remember I am still wearing those L-plates on my sewing machine!) and have cheated by buying got a couple of charm packs from Moda, the lovely fresh colours from Kate Spain in her 'Good Fortune' series of fabrics...Emily 'helped' me lay them all out the other day to design her quilt...the results are below...