If you've been keeping up with me on my Facebook page you'll know that last week I started another quilt. I know, I know - I said I was going to give the quilting a miss for a while, but once we'd finished decorating the baby's room I couldn't resist making a quilt to match the bunting (more on that later).
I'm now desperately trying to get this quilt finished before the baby arrives at the end of the month. Well, I do work best with a deadline!
I cut 10cm squares from a selection of fabrics in greys and pinks and arranged these in a random pattern, 11 squares by 15 squares. I then machine-sewed the squares into rows, and then stitched the rows together to form a cot-sized quilt top. No real skill or fancy patterns here! All I need to do now is assemble and quilt it, then apply the binding. I've got a lovely red fleece blanket to use as the underside of the quilt, so it will be lovely and cosy. I'm really hoping to have this finished by early next week, all being well - but I always underestimate just how long the final stages of quilt making take!
My bunting was finished and was looking fabulous - until my husband hung it up for me and it was really too long for the space I wanted it to go. So I need to do some unpicking and re-assembling to get the flags the right distance apart - the bunting is personalised with the baby's name, so I can't just drop some flags, unfortunately! Hopefully I'll have this completed early next week too.
My To Do list seems to be never-ending - no matter how hard I try to tick things off, more gets added to the bottom!
Best wishes
Debbie
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