More Cot Quilts! 'I Spy'

Hello Dear Readers.

We continue with the cot quilt festival.

This one is for a colleagues new baby son, Luca.

If this looks familiar, I did a similar quilt a couple of years ago but in yellow.

The Shadow Box block is of my own design so why not recycle it.

I like the way it pops! Its always such fun to make.

I liked the rainbow border I made as well.

Every piece of fabric, including the backing and the batting, came out of my stash.

 

 

This isn't the last you'll see of the Shadow Box block.

I have another set already cut out with an Aussie theme.

 

Below is Teddy,

he is road testing the batting before I got around to trimming it and adding the binding.

I did give it a wash before I posted it.

I have 2 more cot quilts to come before the end of the year.

AND - 4 more in the first half of next year. Yikes

 

And here is Luca, proudly making the quilt his own!

 

I have one more quilt to finish today, 6 inches of binding to stitch, put it in the wash, sew the label on, take photos, then get it in the post to Andrew and Hailey who's baby is going to be born.... if not already today and not today, then definitely tomorrow!!!

Update:- Corroboree Dreamtime has made it to Brussels!

Well, this quilt has travelled further than the rest of us this year!

 

It has arrived safely and now is in the ownership of Miss Ivy.

 

I posted it on the 14th October so it only took about 6 weeks.

 

Hope you enjoy it Ivy, xxxx

 

 

2020 - Kim's Year of the Cot Quilt - Corroboree Dreamtime

 

 

 

Hello Dear Readers! 

Its been a very busy quilt year.

Because we are not going on adventures with the car club, or on holidays. So more time at home on the weekends to piece and sew quilts!

(In fact, we should be on a cruise around New Zealand, right now)!

Anyway, this post is about my latest finished quilt

Corroboree Dreamtime.

 

This is a cot quilt for Tom and Merel's first baby girl,

Ivy! 

Because they live in Brussels I wanted a nice Australian themed quilt.

 

I saw some lovely aboriginal fabric at my favourite online fabric shop - eQuilter.

But then I thought, hang on what if this fabrics not genuine and designed and made in China or somewhere. So, I did some research closer to home and found this great fabric line by an artist based near Alice Springs.

Above- Is the quilt label, I also did an Acknowledgement of Country label. 

The quilting was beautiful too thanks to Sandra at Art 'n' Quilting studios.

This is a better shot of the colours, a bit shadowy on some of the other pics as I took them in the late afternoon.

I actually took it to work and used it for an Acknowledgement of Country before one of our education days. We spoke about the importance of the Dreamtime to the Aboriginal people. 

Now its in the international post for the long trip to Belgium.

I don't know how long that will take as Covid has really ramped up over there again.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it arrives safely, at least its not breakable!

I'll let you know in a future post of its fate...

YAY! 

I just checked my emails from Australia Post and it arrived in Belgium on the 11th November and now is just waiting to clear customs!

Favourite Photos of the Past 10 Years - Episode 9 - 'Sail Away'

Above:- Kim's favourite photo of the episode

'From the Deck of MSC Opera'

Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea after leaving Dubrovnik. 

October 2011

That's one of the Opera's sister ships in the photo.

 

Above:- 'We were one of those cabins right at the top with the balconies'

Athens, Greece

October 2011

I wonder if she is still sailing or has been retired due to the pandemic, I'll have to google it.

... 

Yep, she still going, currently in the Med. 

 

 We were on deck 12 called La Bohème

Above:- 'Loading the Luggage'

Venice, Italy

October 2011

If you remember on the news last year there was a news story about a  cruse ship that 

crashed into the dock in Venice.

Yep,,,  it was the MSC Opera.

Above - 'Going on a tour'

Athens? or Dubrovnik? 

October 2011

 

Above:- 'Out on the deck'

On the MSC Opera

October 2011

 

Above:- 'Graham on the deck'

On the MSC Opera

October 2011

Above:- 'The Bridges on the Bosporus Strait'

Istanbul, Turkey

On the MSC Opera

October 2011

Above:- 'In Port'

MSC Opera

October 2011

Above:- 'View from our balcony'

On the MSC Opera

October 2011

 

Above:- 'At Sea'

Coromandel Peninsula

New Zealand

September 2014 

Above:- 'Foggy Ferry'

Amsterdam

December 2017

 

Above:-'Isle of Wight Ferry'

Portsmouth

January 2018

Above:-'Boarding the Ferry'

Isle of Wight

January 2018 

 

Above:-'On board the Isle of Wight Ferry'

January 2018 

 

Above:- 'Another Ferry'

Venice, Italy

October 2011

 

Above:- 'Gondola'

Venice Italy

October 2011

Above:- 'Parked Gondola's'

Venice Italy

October 2011

Above:- 'More parked Gondolas'

Venice Italy

October 2011

Above:- 'Another City, a different canal system'

Amsterdam

December 2017 

 

Above:- 'War Canoe'

Auckland New Zealand

September 2014

 

Above-'Boat trip with the Car Club'

Port Macquarie

November 2016

 

 

Above:- 'Paddle steamer'

 Echuca, Victoria

May 2012

Above:- 'Port Fairy'

 Victoria

May 2012

 

 

Above-'Barge' 

Ireland

September 2011

Above:- 'Fishing Boats at Low Tide'

Morecambe Bay

U.K.

August 2011

Above:-'More Fishing boats'

South Africa

November 2015

Above:-'On the Great Barrier Reef'

Far North Queensland

September 2015

 

 

Above:- 'On the New Endeavour'

Sydney Harbour

October 2017

Above:- 'On board the New Endeavour'

Sydney Harbour

October 2017

 

Above:- 'She likes taking photos of rigging'

On the New Endeavour

Sydney Harbour

October 2017 

 

Above:-'Schooner, Whale's Tale'

Fiji 

April 2016

Above:-'Beautiful Blue sea'

Fiji 

April 2016

 

 Above:- 'More Rigging'

'Whale's Tale'

Fiji 

April 2016

Above:- 'Its like a Turner painting'

HMS Warrior

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

Above:- 'Figurehead'

HMS Warrior

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'Guess what? Rigging'

HMS Warrior

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'At Sunset'

HMS Warrior

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'The Mary Rose'

Henry the VIII's great ship

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'The Actual Anchor Rope'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'Nelson's famous Flagship'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'Inside, Nelson's famous Flagship'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

 

Above:- 'The gun deck'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

Above:-'The Flag of the Flagship'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018

Above:- 'The Aft and the End'

HMS Victory

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

United Kingdom

January 2018