Creative Space Thursday

Long time no blog, whoops! Well we were on holiday for 2 weeks, so may I be excused please?!
My creative space looks like this, this week: A stack of felt Christmas decs ready to be blanket-stitched and stuffed.

In other creative news, I've finished Robyn's Ellie quilt:

and I have taken steps to overcome my fear of all things woollen and have learnt to crochet! 2 scarves and one (less than perfect!) hat with more ideas on the horizon!!



Don't forget to stop by Kirsty's place for more creative spaces!

Creative Space Thursday

A finished quilt top!

Now, I will apologise in advance for the rubbish picture, it was dark as night and pouring down when I took this!
I've finally finished the quilt top for Robyn's Ellie-fun quilt! Huzzah!! Just need to buy some wadding and get quilting. I have 3 months before her Birthday, so better get on with it I guess!

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A patchwork present

I just thought I'd share the mini quilted patchwork blankie I made last week. Some good friends of ours had a baby a couple of weeks ago and finally picked a name last week so I was able to personalise this. It came together really quickly thanks to the Moda Flirtations charm pack I had in my stash. I used a fleecey sheet that I'd bought for Robyn's moses basket (but never used) as the back. I decided not to layer any batting or wadding inside as the baby will get most use from this in the next few months when hopefully we'll be enjoying lovely warm summery weather! I really hope our friends and their baby like it, they should be receiving it any day now, fingers crossed!!

Creative Space Thursday

My Ellie quilt top is coming together! I plan to try and get the rows stitched together today so that I can see if I need to make any adjustments to the centre panel (kind of wishing I hadn't already fixed the applique layers down on that, ho hum, lesson learnt!) After that I'll be able to get the border cut and pieced (a fairly simple task as it's going to be 4 white rectangles to edge this colourful masterpiece!) and then I'll have to man-up and face facts - I'll have to layer up and get quilting!! Kind of scary and kind of exciting all at the same time!! (Just don't mention the dreaded double B of bias-binding, *shudder* - how scary?)
Wish me luck peeps - oh and as ever pop on over to Kirsty's to check out more creative spaces, have fun!

Ooh this is my 250th post, wow doesn't feel like much for 5 years of blogging!