Octoberfest!

Wow, November already! My big finish this month was my Granny quilt. It has already become a favourite snuggler. I did manage to make a few other bits and bobs and so here is my quilty Octoberfest.

Linking up with Lily's Quilts Fresh Sewing Day

Happy sewing

Caroline

Bloggers Quilt Festival

This is my first time entering a quilt into the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I haven't finished many quilts this year but thought I would enter my most recent finish - my granny quilt. I finished it last night!  I even managed to get some photos of it this morning as the sun shone for the first time in weeks.

Here are some of my favourite blocks.

Quilt Stats

Measurements: 44 x 60
Fabric: Scraps from stash
Quilted: machine quilted by me with an all over stipple

This quilt has taken some time to finish but I love it and am so pleased it is now done!

Happy weekend

Caroline

Grown up bag

I have finished my Mouthy Stitches Tote and guess what it actually looks like a proper bag, you know like one a proper grown up person would make and use! I love it!

Bag front

Bag back

A little bit of hand stitching around the stars

I tried a bit of hand stitching around the stars with some perle cotton. I have never used it before and I am now a convert. I love the way it makes the stars kind of sparkle.
Wow I made a grown up bag!!

Carolinex

Happy Days

The kids asleep by 7.30pm, a glass of wine and some crochet - Happy Days!!!

Bags

I have been making bags this weekend. I am lucky enough to be in the Mouthy Stitches 2 swap and I wanted to do a couple of practice runs before I make my secret partner's tote. I needed to make sure I could make the bag! So here is my first attempt. I made it using one of my ribbon star blocks which have been sitting around waiting for me to do something with them.

Biggest daughter was very pleased to pose with it.

and this is what you get if you ask the 3 year old to pose.

 

It was a super pattern to put together. I now need to decide exactly what piecing pattern to use for my partner!

Happy sewing

Carolinex

Teeth and travel

Bit of a tricky week here. Smallest daughter had a bit of a tooth trauma, cue plenty of blood and a trip to A and E (she still has her teeth at the moment but we may lose a couple of them, thank goodness they are only milk teeth). I was hoping we could get her through to at least her 3rd birthday before we had to take her to hospital but unfortunately she likes jumping on the sofa too much!

I seem to have spent rather a lot of time smooshing up food. But today I managed to put together this passport holder for our trip to the UK tomorrow.

I used this pattern by one shabby chick. I used a velcro closure just because it was all I had available.

It was a super pattern and it was fun to put together. Fingers crossed it will help me keep track of things as I negotiate the two little terrors to Heathrow!

Carolinex

Almost done

Almost, almost, almost done. The granny is now quilted! The end is in sight. I did an all over stipple in the white bits and hand quilted in the ditch around the centre square of each granny. It was a bit tricky at points but I really enjoyed the process. Here is a little look.

I am undecided on the binding but I suspect it will probably be pink as requested by my 4 year old boss who will eventually own the quilt.

Caroline x