Two quilts, quilted. Binding tomorrow. And now, a spot of tea.

It's the summer holidays, and if sewing time is hard to come by, blogging time has entirely disappeared - by the time Trainboy is in bed I can barely string a sentence together.  But I am here, I am here at last, and after a full day of sewing, too:



These two are quilt tops that have languished in a to-be-finished pile for many months.  When the Husband decided to go off for a weekend (riding bikes, naturally), he very decently arranged for Grandma & Grandad to take Trainboy off my hands for a night while he was away, and I set to with the sewing machine pretty much as soon as I'd waved them goodbye.  After roughly 7 hours of sewing, these two now only need binding and they're done!

The one on the left is quite small, but the pink one is single-bed sized.  I've backed it with a thrifted wool blanket, too, so we'll see how that looks after washing - I'm quite intrigued to find out.

I also managed to finish off the quilt that was giving me such headaches in the previous post, and the recipient loved it, which is deeply satisfying.  I was pleased with it in the end, I admit, although it was only finished in the very nick of time, and I forgot to take a photo before it left...

...yes, I am definitely the worst blogger.  Ah well!  

Vintage-style Kaleidoscope Quilt Top

And here it is - a finished quilt top.  I'm quite pleased with this one!  The soft muted colours work really well together, especially with the white sashing to make it all pop a bit.

I'm less pleased with the fact my camera seems to have gone a bit peculiar - the bottom part of that photo is in focus but the top isn't?  And the depth of field (technical terminology, get me) isn't huge, so...  I don't know.  I shall have to get Tom to have a look at it this evening.

The quilt top meanwhile will be put away for a bit, since I have far too many other things I need to get on with.  Hopefully I can come back to it before too long and get it basted up and quilted.

A Few Blocks

These are paper-pieced string blocks for what will be a vintagey-looking Kaleidoscope quilt.  In a spirit of stashbusting, because I have a lot of sad, neglected stash from back when I started buying quilting fabrics which isn't... quite... to my current tastes.

As ever with stash quilts, I ended up supplementing things with a few small new purchases - but they were vintage!  A bag of real actual vintage scraps for £5!   Several of them shriveled alarmingly under my iron and revealed themselves to be not actually cotton, but all the rest I used.  Gosh, I'm so thrifty!  And not a sucker at all.