FINISHED QUILTS

A list of my completed quilts!

 

Where did it all begin,

  AND look at how far I've come... 

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FIFTY-FIVE December 2023

Hip to be Square!

Photos to come!

FIFTY-FOUR September 2023

Under Pressure at Christmas

A bit of a gap between finished quilts, but don't worry there's more on the production line!

 

This one is a smaller version of the one that went to live in Brussels.

 

 It has more of a Christmas theme

Freddie Mercury in a Santa hat.

FIFTY-THREE December 2022

Minions Keep calm!

For Maya, my great niece.

FIFTY-TWO November 2022

True Blue

Another Aussie themed I Spy quilt that was gifted to Ella and now is in Brussells.

FIFTY-ONE October 2022

Cool Britannia

Those tricky Union Jack Blocks nearly sent me bonkers!

 

This is for Chloe!

 

The picture on the label I took in Portsmouth UK. Its on the HMS Victory.

 

Above is Mindy & Chloe with their quilts we had morning tea with a surprise quilt reveal!

FIFTY! October 2022

Le Bouquet

Gifted to Mindy.

My first attempt at curved piecing.

Its number 50! Half century!

 

 

 

FORTY-NINE- May 2022

Life Is Better in a Tutu

Its all about Emma Wiggle for my new granddaughter, Ruby.

 

 FORTY - EIGHT- December 2021

Buzz Lightyear - To Infinity and Beyond

For my Grandson Hamish a partner for the Woody quilt I made earlier.

FORTY-SEVEN- November 2021

Who's Who in the Zoo

 

A Quilt for Keira's new baby

FORTY-SIX - September 2021

G'day, G'day

Another cot quilt this time for our great nephew Toby!

And another I Spy quilt - but this one has an all Australian theme.

 

FORTY-FIVE- April 2021

The Wiggle's - Big Red Car

The first of two quilts for our new Grand daughter Ruby.

Nice piano border and musical note background. It also has a grey flannel final border and binding.

 

FORTY- FOUR - February 2021

Sesame Street II 

The second Sesame Street themed quilt for granddaughter Florence.

Using up leftover fabric from the first quilt that was completed in 2019.

 

 

FORTY-THREE- December 2020

Toy Story - Woody to the Rescue!

The first of two quilts for our new grandson Hamish!

 

Guess what quilt number two's theme will be!

 

 

FORTY-TWO - November 2020

I Spy - Blue

Another quilt from my favourite I Spy pattern for a colleagues baby son, Luca.

 

FORTY-ONE - November 2020

Corroboree Dreamtime

 

A cot quilt for baby Ivy which went all the way to Brussels! 

Made of the most wonderful aboriginal fabric.

FORTY! - August 2020

Mr Blue Sky

YAY - celebrating my fortieth quilt.

 

This was 1000's of one inch suares.

 

Its one to keep.

THIRTY-NINE - June 2020

Isn't it good to have Friends?

 

A quilt for my friend Mary-Anne who loves all things snoopy.

THIRTY-EIGHT - February 2020

Hakuna Matata

Now for even more cot quilts.

This one is a Lion King theme for a colleagues baby boy who coincidentally was given the name of Leo.

Great quilting by Sandra of Lions.

 

THIRTY-SEVEN - December 2019

Leaps & Bounds

 A Scrappy country wedding quilt for Sean & Rose.

The quilt pattern was called  'Conversation  Hearts'

and it was named after the Paul Kelly song.

 

 

And below is my original EQ7 design. 

 

 

THIRTY-SIX- June 2019

Sunny Day

 A Sesame Street Quilt for our new baby granddaughter, Florence.

Using lots of flannels and bright colours.

Quilting design is 'Furry Red Guy' (Elmo).

There is a second, smaller one as well, but not yet finished.

 

 

 THIRTY-FIVE-November 2017

I Spy - Shadowbox

 

This is a cot quilt that I started making for a baby

then sadly the baby did not happen.

But as I liked the quilt so much I continued on with it and donated it to the car club as a raffle quilt.

It now lives on the back seat of a Holden. 

 

             That is Lizzie above helping with the photo of the label.

                  Great fun to make with all those scraps and 
                            I love the way the blocks, 'POP'.

THIRTY-FOUR - July 2017

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar -Moon

 Edith's second quilt is again Hungry Caterpillar

But moon theme this time.

Great center panels.

And I used up lots of leftover fabric for the back.

 

THIRTY-THREE - July 2017

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Sun

 

 Large quilt for grand daughter Edie. Another quilt to follow.

 Quilting features Caterpillars, of course...
 

THIRTY-TWO  - February 2017

The V&A Quilt

      Made with some of the fabric I purchased at the V&A museum 
                 gift shop in London. And other stuff from my stash.

 Its a rolling stone block with a Ric-rac border

THIRTY-ONE- December 2016

Under Pressure

 

 Another one completed. This one was given to Grahams Nephew and his wife. I have a smaller one of these as well but its in a backlog and waiting its turn to go and get quilted.

Made of thousands of scraps, brights and some novelty fabrics as well.

 

Below is the label.

 

 And,  below is my original EQ6 design.

 

THIRTY - December 2016

Millions of Minions

Another quilt for a new baby using great Minion fabric.

There was a big gap between quilts in 2015-2016.

Kay my quilter moved and it took me awhile to find a new machine quilter.

 

 Now using Art N quilting studio at Sandy beach.

 

 This was a fun quilt to make. I designed it myself on EQ7.

I made every row a slightly different width.

TWENTY-NINE - March 2015

Octopuses Garden

 

 I cheated a bit with this one which was a gift for a colleagues new baby.

I bought a panel added a triangle border,then I hand quilted around all the elements... took ages but looked nice when finished.

TWENTY-EIGHT - January 2015

A Kiss to Build a Dream on

Good grief -  this quilt took me YEARS!!!! (5 years +)

It was suppose to be about 12 inches wider, but it was too big so I reduced the size. Hence I have enough pinwheels to make another quilt!

The applique took me ages and I had to use a magnifier as my eyes where so bad by the end. 

 

 Beautifully machine quilted by Kay. The last quilt she will do for me as she is moving to Victoria. 

 

TWENTY-SEVEN - July 2014

I Spy in Orange

 

 A quick cot quilt for a colleagues baby girl.

Using up my scraps... (still have lots - is there no bottom to my stash)!

Machine quilted by me.

 

 

 

TWENTY-SIX - April 2014

 

Miniscule

 

 A quilt with bugs in jars for our new baby niece Sienna.

My own design.

The lady bugs have escaped from one jar and are wandering all down the side of the quilt.

na na, na na, na

BUT- on the back they are FREE.

 

 Apart from the lady bugs there are red-back spiders, lizards , snails, ants, butterflies, bugs, bookworms, bees, cockroaches and frogs. There are also 3 different jar blocks, some are on shelves and some are stacked.

 

TWENTY-FIVE - December 2013

Redheads

 For Sean & Emmy for Christmas 2013

 Blue Japanese fabrics, vintage kiminoes and batiks.

The red gold blocks look like match sticks - hence Redheads.

I still have enough of thes blocks to make a smaller quilt!

 

TWENTY-FOUR - November 2013

Ripe Strawberries

for the table

 

 A small quilt - a good size for lap. wall or table.
One for ME, to keep.
Using up lots of scraps!(still have lots of scraps)

 a sister quilt for ripe strawberries below

TWENTY THREE - October 2013

Dr Seuss is on the loose

Made for Sal's baby girl - Lola.

I even created the 'Seussian' verse on the label.  

 below- Sal and Clarah at Sal's high tea baby shower

 

 

TWENTY TWO - June 2013

Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

The second, and smaller of this pair of quilts.

This ones for me and hangs on the wall.

 TWENTY ONE - December 2012

Baubles, Bangles and Beads

This quilt is the first and largest in a 2 part quilt project.

 

It was  made as a gift for my sister, Cathy, for Christmas.

TWENTY - September 2012

'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi'

Another cot size quilt, this time for a new bub named wee JOCK.

I'm using up my stash of Australian themed fabrics, 

inspired by the 2012 London Olympics.

(Not that it helped Australia win many medals)!  

 

 It has a snugly spotty flannel backing. I also tried for a green & gold versus red white & blue southern cross type thingy....

and - of course - a boxing kangaroo on the label. 

As with all my smaller quilts I quilted it on my poor old machine. This is never as professional looking as Kay does for me on the larger quilts - BUT its cheaper! Cot quilts should be used and chewed and poo-ed on, therefore if they last only a few years then thats fine. In fact I'd be rather flattered if one of my cot quilts became a childs 'blankie' and was so loved that it became a little dirty scrap of rag!

 

NINETEEN - July 2012 

'A Dog Party!'

A dog party, a big dog party

Go Dog Go - P.D. Eastman 

 

For our new niece - Isla

and named from a  favourite book of my boys when they were preschoolers.

A bright cot sized quilt using up lots of scraps and all those left over doggie fabrics.

 

EIGHTEEN - 2012 - 'Beatlemania'

I fell in love with the Beatle fabric, and bought lots of it, then had the difficult job of designing the quilt to fit in with the fabric.

It sat nearly completed for a long time before I got around to having it quilted by Kay.

The fabric features the Beatles in the Sea of Holes from the Yellow Submarine movie. It even has Green Meanies onit.

It a block called 'Not too fussy' from the quilt blocks galore website, which I changed slightly.
 

 

 SEVENTEEN - 2011 - 'I Spy'

I spy with my little eye

something beginning with....?

OOH, I love this quilt and it was sooo much fun to make!

Graham holding the quilt - we were rushing it off to the hospital

This was a 'welcome to the world' quilt for our new baby nephew Kayden.

I bought small 'I Spy' squares from Ebay (America) and combined them with what I already had in my stash.

The squares have everything from cars to pink flamingos... wish I'd made one for me too!

SIXTEEN- 2011- 'I Remember You'

A quilt made for my parents to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary. I was really pleased with this one. Probably because I really loved the fabric... how can one go wrong when working such gorgeous stuff!

This is my original EQ6 design

and, this is the finished result - cool! I love EQ6!!!

 I used a magnificent Asian floral for the borders and then based the rest of the colour scheme around it.

The white is glitter fabric, which is so cute, (despite a bit of the glitter coming off on the iron) and I used lots of my favourite fabric - which is Michael Miller Fairy Frost.

Kay, quilted it Beautifully, as per usual

The label

It was named after the Frank Ifield song 'I Remember You' (the yodelling one!) which is the right era for Mum and Dad. 

They love their quilt!

 

FIFTEEN - December 2010 - 'Ripe Strawberries'

A quilt made for my Mother-in-law for Christmas. I bought the beautiful afternoon tea  fabric first then had to design the quilt around it. Baskets of strawberries as a centrepiece. Quilted in a 'Steam' pattern by Kay.

Named after a song from the musical 'Oliver!' - 'Who will buy' which has sellers of strawberries carrying their baskets and singing "Ripe, strawberries, ripe". 

THIRTEEN & FOURTEEN - 2010 - 'The Colour of Magic'

These two quilts took me YEARS to finish. Designed pre EQ6, when I had all the blocks done I realized it was too big so I unpicked it and split it into two. The large one is still too big doesn't fit in the washing machine and is really heavy to sleep under -- but really nice on the coldest winter nights so its our winter quilt. Which gives me an excuse to make a summer quilt ;-)

A design called Tennessee Waltz  from Judy Martins scrap quilts book. Made from lots of Asian fabrics including the brocade my mother brought me back from China. Quilted in a design called Chinese Crescents.

The Colour of Magic is the title of Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel.

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TWELVE - July 2010 - 'Who Let the Dogs out?'

Woof, woof, woof ,woof..... Using lots of Doggie print fabrics and I designed the blocks to look like dog kennels. Each kennel is empty and the dogs are everywhere but where they should be!

A quick cot quilt for Henry a friends bub.  

 

  ELEVEN - May 2010 - 'Our House'

Our house in the middle of our street... a song by the group Madness. This is the first quilt I designed and made using EQ6 (which is a software design program for quilters). Quilted by Kay in a Ric Rac pattern which looked great on the plain backing.

I gave this one to Andrew. I would like to revisit the house block again one day. Maybe yellow houses with a black background next time.

TEN - 2010 - 'Daydream Believer'

A quick cot quilt for my new baby nephew. Made of scraps using lots of novelty fabrics.

Machine quilted by ME!

 

NINE - 2009 -  'All Spruced Up'

A Christmas wall hanging. Lots of green and cream and when it was finished I decided to torture myself by covering it in hundreds of sequins. The angel was may first ever appliqué and she is holding a rhinestone star. She is also made from the hot pink 'satin'  from one of my favourite blouses - bought from Katies in the Corso at Manly in 1980 something... I also quilted it myself, although simply and poorly.

I designed it on graph paper! (How old fashioned that seems now!) The gifts at the base are 3D, stuck on with clear press-studs for ease of laundering...

Looks good though,,, and now I use it to display Christmas cards!

 

EIGHT - 2009 - 'Round & Round the Garden (like a teddy bear)' 

A wedding quilt for Jessica and Jarrod. I collected lots of little squares from ebay so that every block is a different colour.

 

SEVEN - July 2008 - 'Most People I Know (Think that I'm Crazy)'

This is the turning point!

The first of a new generation of quilts. Its the first I had professionally quilted. No more struggling and ruining all my hard work with my dodgy machine quilting. It was at this time that I discovered buying fabric online and all the other wonderful resources available online for crafters! Its the first quilt I used printable fabric for the label.

I love the colours in this quilt and it is still my favourite on the lounge cuddle quilt.

 

SIX- May 2006 -  'In My Life'

Lots of Pyramids made with lots of scraps from other projects and old clothes, Has velour and satin blocks. Quilted it myself with some difficulty and lots of swearing.

Its named after the Beatles song - 'In My Life'- (Hey, I named my whole blog after this song)!

There are places I remember

in my life 

though some have changed

FIVE - 2006 - 'Always look on the bright side of life"

Another nine patch quilt and a matching quilt to number 4. This was for Andrew and it took me YEARS to finish it. (BIG life problems during those years) I changed plans from a single bed size to a double by adding extra borders. I Quilted it myself on my poor little machine!

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FOUR - 'The Little Duck Quilt'

'Mother duck said

quack quack quack quack

and all of her little ducks came back'

A single sized nine patch made for eldest son Sean. Had a duck fabric border thus the name.

I can't find the photos.

THREE - 2000 - 'The Birthday Money Quilt'

 Fabric bought with the money given to me by my Grandmother for Christmas. A log cabin wall quilt. Very sparsely machine quilted.

Photos to follow

TWO - 1998 - 'Andrew loves sleeping under the stars'

Made for my youngest son. I hand quilted this, it took ages and turned me off hand quilting. But I used a thick wadding which I now know is a no no for hand quilting!

 ONE - 1995 - 'Ben's Quilt'

My First Quilt. Finished in December 1995 for my nephew Ben
Log cabin quilt.