Snuggly snail

A little snuggly patchwork snail, one of my God daughters christmas pressies.

Again, the pictures are just horrible, they look really nice on my phone screen, I think I need to invest in a new phone.

Cuzco Jewels

I have had two charm packs of Katie Spain's Cuzco for a little while and and I really didn't want to cut them up. So I decided to just sash them in white to showcase them and I am thrilled to bits with 'my' new quilt... though now I'll have to decorate so it fits in :0)
I quilted a simple stipple pattern all over and it looks great, I can't wait for it to have a few washes and become really tactile as well.
I backed and bound it in a cerise and orange butterfly backing.

NOW FINISHED - Work in progress - backpack

The finished article. I am really pleased with it.

I started this Bank holiday Monday and so far the progress hasn't been too shabby.

I've done the front, including the pocket, the back, the zip part and one handle - and I changed my mind a few times about a few things.
The colours are closer to the picture of the front with the pocket on, it's really vibrant autumn colours.

The strippy bit is the pocket.

 For the top I drew out a foundation piece on grease proof paper with a ruler and pencil.

The inside of the pocket has cats and pretty much all of the panels are different, so it really is a patchwork backpack. I'm really pleased it.

 

Purse

I made a patchwork piece up of plus signs, it measures approx 10 by 5 inches, I then sandwiched it with wadding and backing. I quilted each plus sign. I then folded it into three and put some velcro as the closure. I then made a double sided piece of fabric and attached a zip to it so it was like an open sided zip pocket. Then I put that inside two parts of the three folded bits and sewed it in place and then put binding all around it.