Mr and Mrs, be nice to each other.....

I've finished! I finished both Mr and Mrs Buzz's quilts today. Matching Mr and Mrs Triangle quilts. 'Blue Lightening' and 'Strawberries and Cream'. To show them just how much we appreciate them. It was all very emotional when they realized they were for them to take home after we presented them at the end of Diggy's archaeology lesson this morning. I am so pleased they like them.

Blue Lightening. Mr Quilt.

Strawberries and Cream. Mrs Quilt.

Chicken Quilt.

Strawberries and Cream.

Not the food kind, but the fabric variety. It's what I have named Mrs Buzz's quilt, that I am currently busy stitching together. When it is a colour block quilt like these are, it's a lot of faffing about. The whole quilt and blocks have to be laid out and I spend hours shifting them around into place, so the colours blend and don't jarr with each other. It's like one giant colour jigsaw puzzle. As I never absolutely plan things down to the last detail. I will always wing it.
Now the fronts of both Mr and Mrs Buzz's quilts are finished I can concentrate on the backs. Then it's time to piece together. I am nearly finished on the strawberries and cream one. Why the title? Well, the colours remind me of Summer, raspberries, strawberries, bramble leaves, bowls of mixed cream and berry juice in a swirl, walks in the country and picnic blankets. I have used a cream contrast instead of a bright white like I did for Blue Lightening, so I think Strawberries and Cream is quite a fitting name.

Blue Lightening.

Quilt is pieced together and ready for the backing and either a boarder or no boarder, wide or thin, or just edging? That decision stage, the finishing part that can make or break a design. I usually go for clean lines on a design like this, and that's what I think I'm going to stick to - clean lines.
I've decide to title this quilt 'Blue Lightening'. Not a very imaginative title as quilting goes, because the pattern is called lightening and well it's blue!

Denim Diva.

Made entirely from outgrown and worn jeans.

Summer Days and Winter Nights.

After a long chat with a dear friend on the phone, she suggested I recharge my batteries with my 'me time' activity. Sewing does this for me. It is a time and activity that I can drift off into. I am not conciously thinking, I am just in the moment. More than adequate to restore my batteries.
 'Summer Days and Winter Night's', This is what I've been toying with to call my next quilt. Yes, I got bored of the blue, so I've taken a short detour break. It's all done, just needs batting and we're good to go again. I have yet to find the time to go into Chi to get some. Sooooo...........thought I would try and see what the streak of lightening design looked like with different colours for a Mrs quilt and I have finished it already. In fact I like it soo much, I've decided to make one for myself. 
As this extra quilt for us is going to be made up of bits spare material fat quarters, and the girls old summer dresses and winter flannel pj's, I thought the title 'Summer days and Winter's nights' was rather fitting. Plus I'm making the quilt in the summer and it will be used in the winter.

Journey of a quilt.

People often ask about the sewing journey of a quilt as it progresses, so I thought I would show you the journey of the Ringing Singing Tree quilt in pictures.

Growing Triangles.

The Blue Lightening  quilt is coming along quite quickly. Still not sure about the colours, but they blend and mix together well. It's just a personal preference issue for me, need to get all the blues cut and stiched into triangles and then I will be able to see better. Got a couple more new blues to squeeze in there before I start to think about the boarder and then finally piecing together.

Mytroyshka Quilt.

Bobbing Along.....

Ringing Singing Tree.

I have finally finished edging the 'Ringing Singing Tree' quilt!!! This is a most joyous occassion when a quilt is finally finished. Mixed feelings of upliftment and a bubbling of excitment, tinged with an itching desire to get started on the next creative project.
This was a quilt started in the Spring of 2010 after listening to the delightful dawn chorus of the birds in our garden. I wanted the birds to be full of colour and this developed into them becoming pure fantasy creatures, all from a small doodle sketch one moring over a steaming cuppa.
It took some deliberation over the kind of colour boarder that was needed....if indeed one at all, but I think the thin red was the best choice after all.