Quilt Complete!

I finished it!

Approximately 65" square and made from various small amounts of fabric.  Not quite small enough to be classed as scraps, but not enough of any of them to be used by themselves. 

This is the back.  An Ikea print that needed to be extended in both directions in order to make the backing large enough.  A green batik wasn't the ideal colour match for the green in the print, but I did have just about the right amount (with a bit of cutting and sewing to get the length / width right), and it worked well with the front greens, so I went ahead with it.

And here it is, neatly folded up, and ready for stacking in the wardrobe until I get a load ready for Project Linus!  Love to see a completed project!

 

Fun Wallet

Using a pattern from SewSheSews, I made a simple and fun wallet - I didn't place the animals completely perfectly - but it's quite hard to do when it's made all in one piece.  Perhaps next time I might join fussy cut parts to get motifs centralised, but this was certainly good enough for this quick fun project!

 And here is the inside.  Two little flat compartments.

Mish Mash Quilt

I tend to make small 9 patch blocks as my 'leaders and enders' - thread savers when I'm making a set of blocks or whatever.

They use 1.5" square, so their finished size is 3" square.

I've used them in various ways in the past, but after seeing something in an online quilting retreat earlier in the year, I realised that I could cut them up and play with them more.

So, I cut them in half in each direction, twirled two diagonal corners, and then sewed them back together.  Then arranged them in a colour flow (ish!).

Simple quilting, and added two corners ready for my hanging 'system'.

I used to buy wooden strips and saw them to length.  Then I realised that with small quilts (like this one!) I didn't really need to.  So, instead, I cut two strips of cardboard, glue them together with a glue stick, and leave to dry.

Then I find the middle of the double strip and punch a hole in it.

Now I'm ready to slide it into the hanging triangles, and that is is ready!

The punched hole slips on to small nail (or, usually for me, an old sewing machine needle!) and you are done!

Here is my Mish Mash Quilt in all it's 13" square glory!

I might think about dulling down the bright white pair of blocks near the middle - perhaps the Inktense pencils might come out to play - but otherwise I think that the experiment worked pretty well!