Two quilts finished
A month or so ago, I finished the purple quilt for eye_of_a_cat. The story behind this one was that my boyfriend's mother gave me some matching fabrics last Christmas with peacocks on them. They were lovely but not my cup of tea, so I decided to make a quilt for eye_of_a_cat as a congratulations-on-finishing-your-PhD present. A few months later, she ended up house-sitting her PhD supervisor's peacocks and had many amusing stories to tell, so quite by chance this quilt ended up being very apt. You can see the quilt reclining in its new habitat here, and my photo beneath the cut. It's the third quilt that I made.
For my second quilt, which ended up put aside for a while and which I've only just finished quilting, I was inspired by a fish quilt I'd seen in a magazine and raring to try Ruth McDowell's freezer paper method. My cousin is planning to have a baby, so I designed a fish baby quilt. The background is this fabric, which meant that the background templates had to be very carefully placed on the fabric. The piecing, appliqué and embroidery took 2-3 days each. My cousin's still in the planning stage of having the baby (last I heard they were sorting out egg donation), but my lovely herbalist/aromatherapist is due in January, so I'm going to give her the quilt tomorrow.
Everything was completely hand-sewn. Larger images may be seen here and here.
By the way, sorry for not being around much lately, and not getting back to people on stuff etc. The ME's being entertaining, but that's nothing compared to the fun I'm having trying to find an electrician so that we can have the overhead lights in the living room/kitchen working again.
For my second quilt, which ended up put aside for a while and which I've only just finished quilting, I was inspired by a fish quilt I'd seen in a magazine and raring to try Ruth McDowell's freezer paper method. My cousin is planning to have a baby, so I designed a fish baby quilt. The background is this fabric, which meant that the background templates had to be very carefully placed on the fabric. The piecing, appliqué and embroidery took 2-3 days each. My cousin's still in the planning stage of having the baby (last I heard they were sorting out egg donation), but my lovely herbalist/aromatherapist is due in January, so I'm going to give her the quilt tomorrow.
Everything was completely hand-sewn. Larger images may be seen here and here.
By the way, sorry for not being around much lately, and not getting back to people on stuff etc. The ME's being entertaining, but that's nothing compared to the fun I'm having trying to find an electrician so that we can have the overhead lights in the living room/kitchen working again.