Elsie's Quilt...

Welcome to my blog garden.  I hope you had a relaxing weekend.

It lifted my heart to give my 18 month old God-daughter, Elsie a quilt. It will share her bed and hopefully keep her warm this Winter.

I sewed it in the Shabby Linen quilt style. I made a similar one using French linen in 2011 you can see here .

The fabric is a devine range by Moda Bunny Hill Designs called Putting on the Ritz .  I adore the crown fabric. The pink fabric range I used for the front and the grey version as the backing. I think this fabric gives this quilt the modern touch.

I bought this range as 10 inch Layer Cake in pink and grey so I only had to cut out the wadding and binding which made for a relatively quick sew-up.

Today I am linking this post to the Linky Party Handmade Monday at Handmade Harbour.

Thank you for strolling down my garden path...
                                                                  Jan x

Shabby Linen Quilt finished!!!

My shabby linen quilt looked good before I threw it in the washing machine and dryer but it looked amazing when I took it out! The frayed edge gives the quilt so much texture. I am so in love with it. My son has spent the afternoon under it on the sofa so it is obviously snuggly also.

I am not convinced I should plant many roses at my new home which is disappointing as I love them. I had over 30x roses at my previous home which thrived. The foliage keeps getting eaten, I think by possums. This particular rose "Double Delight" was given to me as a housewarming gift. Luckily it is still flowering beautifully despite the half-eaten leaves.

My DD Mary, 12, has a green thumb. She planted this bed out with daffodils without my help in Autumn and now look how pretty this bed is.

Back on blog

I get so caught up in the excitement of a new project I start lots and don't seem to get many finishes. Therefore I'm being hard on myself; no new quilts or craft projects (except Lynette Anderson's Scandinavian Xmas quilt but that was an exception) until I have 5x finishes.

So here is a piccie of the progress I have made on one of my "to finish" quilts. I have finished the quilting on the 64 blocks. It's "Shaggy Linen Quilt" by Quilters Barn. I love the Frenchy linen look. It will be a throwover on wintry Tassie nights watching TV.