Baby Snugglies

When I was out shopping recently I saw the perfect fabric for making baby snugglies. So I bought some knowing my sister-in-law was due to have her baby boy the next week. In the early hours of the day after I had made the purchases I had a text saying my new baby nephew had arrived. So I’m glad I had already got the fabrics. I popped into town to get a last few bits so I could get the gifts made before I went to visit that afternoon.
I made two snugglies.
One has a soft blue side and a cotton side with baby dinosaurs on, and I sewed ribbons along the edges.The other one is made all from the soft blue fabric and then I sewed that to a small plush toy walrus. Aug 2010

Hunky Dory quilt

For my birthday in June one of my sisters gave me some money to chose some quilting fabric. I found a collection that I loved by Moda called Hunky Dory and bought a layer cake, which consists of 40 10”x10” pieces of fabric. Because some of the fabrics had quite big patterns on I wanted to keep the pieces I used in the quilt quite big. I cut them all in half and then pieced them together in what I call a ‘brick pattern’. I still need to decide on the fabric I’m going to use for a border and then I can move onto the batting/backing/quilting stage. Aug 2010

Scrap Bag quilt

In June I went to the National Quilt Championships, Sandown. Not only did they have lots of quilts to look at but they had lots of stalls to buy quilting goods from. I found out about what is called a Scrap Bag. This bag contains odd cut offs of quilting fabric all from one collection by Moda (which just so happen to make my favourite quilting fabrics). The bags all contain a set weight of fabric and you can only see one fabric through the window, so unless you recognise that one piece from a certain collection it is just a lucky dip. I lucked out and got a bag that had some really nice fabrics from the ‘Simple Abundance’ range.
I decided to make a small quilt top. I haven’t gone any further than that as I am trying to decide whether to make it into a picnic blanket or just a small throw/quilt.I made the pattern myself just by playing around with what I had until I was happy with the look. It helped that I already had a fat quarter of one of the fabrics from the range that I added for some variation. Aug 2010