Wedding gift quilt finished... yay

This is a quilt for my God daughter's parents who got married a couple of weeks ago, so it's an important quilt for me to make... and my goodness was it a pig to quilt. It is by far the biggest quilt I have done to date and I sew on a Brother Innovis 400 and it was tough going... there are a few little folds in the back, but I'm hoping a good washing will help with that. I am really pleased with it and hopefully they will to. Now onto the owl wall hanging.

Wedding quilt... it's coming along.

The sewing machine is now fixed - the timing belt was shredded due to exessive use... I've done a fair bit of hand sewing hexies, but now I'm back to the wedding quilt. I'm glad I had a bit of a break from it as I came up with different ideas about the borders and back and I like them... now just the quilting to go... loops or stippling... hmmmm

String quarter'et'

I always have the feeling that I'm lagging behind, I saw this sort of quilt a year or two ago and just thought it looked like a lot of work... but I've decided to have a go.

It's taken just over three hours to make four 12"x12" squares and I think it will need to be at least 6x6 maybe with borders... hmmm will have to wait and see when the other 32 are done.

I'm using grease proof paper for the foundation paper.

 

A couple of update pics -  it's coming along. I think by tonight I will have finished another 12 corner blocks. It's moving quicker than I thought

More update pictures - and it truly goes to show that lightening with photography is everything... the first is taken in my flat and the second in my neighbours house... what a difference.

I'm really pleased with it so far - I think I'll leave it with that number of blocks and do some borders on it to pad it out.

Here it is with the border on, but it has to be taken off again and re-stitches as the squares are all on the bias so it's stretched and it's just wrong, the border has too much fabric in it, strange!

Beach huts quilt

This started out as a small quilt, which I liked, but I thought the blocks were too big, so I made a load more smaller ones, 80 in all. I put them all together and quilted it... then decided it was too thin, so using all the half square triangles from the roofs, I made another panel. To attach it I placed the wadding next to the main piece and ran a zigzag down it, then I attached the backing, then the front, quilted it and the added the spotty green binding. It has what I call an ice cream blue. It is single bed size.

Beach huts.

Cheery little beach huts, reminds me of holidays when I was younger. Each one measuring 5" x 7", just deciding whether to add borders or not and how to quilt it. I'll post the finished little quilt/wall hanging when I've decided.
My weekend thinking has been that it might become a beach quilt... blue strip on the top with a sun and a sand and sea strip underneath, with shells and fishes.

As you may notice I haven't quite got the hang of this blog lark, my phone doesn't seem to understand the way I want them to appear on the blog (read I haven't worked out my phone blog bit yet :o) )

 

Linking in with Freshley Pieced WIPs Wednesday - Fingers crossed it works. 

 http://www.freshlypieced.com/2013/03/wip-wednesday-traveling-kind-of.html#links

I am starting to get a little frustrated with the not really knowing what to do about linking up etc.. deep breath and any comments with information would be greatly received :o)