Some of my Quilts #9 - Owl Quilt

This is the ninth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

I made this quilt as a display for Spotlight when I worked there.  It uses a panel that we had in stock at the time.  I do like the occasional panel as it allows me to work on my quilting skills without worrying about ruining a pieced quilt top.

You can see more of the quilting in the photo above.  I really put a lot of detail into it so I could do something different.

As you can see from the label I finished this quilt in two days.  It was actually the second quilt I finished over the Easter weekend in 2012.  In order to finish it within the two days (and not to drive myself crazy) I bound this quilt by machine.  It's not the best job ever but it got the job done.

Have you ever quilted any panels?

Ice Cream Baby Quilt

When I found out my brother in laws cousins were expecting a baby I was incredibly excited for them!  I may have been slightly more excited when I found out they were expecting a girl.  As I have four nephews I don't get to sew girly things very often.

When planning this quilt I was inspired by this mini quilt by Heather from Quilt Story.  I fell head over heels in love with it when I saw it on Instagram. 

Even though I had never tried paper piecing before following this tutorial from Sew We Quilt I found it rather straight forward.  Even with the mess it left on the floor of my sewing room.

 

I enlarged the blocks to a percentage I can't quite remember.  The quilt ended up quite a nice baby size.  The fabrics are mostly scrappy some Bonnie and Camille, Sweetwater, Michael Miller and Spotlight.  The main fabric is of course Ombre by V and Co for Moda.

 

I purchased the backing from East Coast Fabrics (My favourite fabric store, very thankful I live an hour from the nearest one!).

 



 

All rolled up and ready to gift next week!

 

 

 

The binding fabric was from Spotlight, bought on a whim because it was perfect for binding.

 

Can't wait to see their reaction.

 

Emma :)