A Little Easter Sewing

With Easter only a few weeks away I thought I would make some Easter egg bunting. Using a template, I cut out the backing and the batting. I have a bag of scrap batting off cuts that I use for small sewing.

I think the backs look as good as the fronts.

I started by making some single colours and then decided to make them more coulorful. I might even embellish them.

I made them as leaders and enders - along with some red scraps items - while sewing the orphan block backing for a quilt.

Link Up Parties for Inspiration: 

Finished(or Not) Friday – Alycia Quilts

Off the Wall Fridays - Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever

Wednesday Wait Loss - The Inquiring Quilter

So Scrappy 

 

Home Again and Back to the Machine

Back home after our travels and Peter made me a wooden stand for my rulers and mats. Great having something made to order. It fits all of them perfectly.

Continuing with my Simply Colourful Mystery quilt Freedom, I chose not to make scrappy cream, as it took so long to make, but it does look so good. The clue then had a purple triangle sewn on one corner.

 The next clues were sewing all the previous clues together. I do like the way all the different creams came together. I guess, looking back it was good that I had time to make them.

One can see how by the time I got to the red scrappy blocks I wasn't using such small pieces.

I do like the way it looks and GD1 does too as she has claimed it for her new bedroom. The backing will be dark purple, her favourite colour and will be lightly pieced.

Happy quilting.

I Love a Mystery!

Back in May I started two new projects:the new Simply Colourful mystery quilt; and Ulas Quiltpage BOM. Now I am almost finished the Simply Colourful top. After travelling for a few weeks I'm back home and on the machine again. I love a mystery and the first step is choosing the colours, always hard for me, one because I tend to choose the same colours 😊 - pink, purple, and teal; and two because it's a mystery, and one is never sure how it will turn out.

The colours of this Freedom mystery were red, white and blue. I am already making a red white and blue footie quilt so decided to change the blue to purple. First step is sorting the colours into light medium and dark. I usually do this by taking a photo and turning it into black and white, then it is easier to sort the values.

The mystery was nine weeks with a clue every week, and Lynn, the host, would release the clue on Friday morning US time and at 8pm US time that evening would sew the clue. Two of the clues suggested that scraps could be put together to make the same colour block. I think I went a bit too far with some of the scraps, especially with the light neutral blocks. I completed up to clue 6 before leaving home to travel and had a sneak look at clues 7, 8, and 9 while away.

Many of the blocks called for bonus triangles .....

 ... and I do love bonus HST's

 I now have all the blocks made and I'm sewing them into the rows and the quilt top. It looks great.

 I love creating and sewing.