2009 Quilting Wrap Up

Well the best way to show you my 2009 Quilting Wrap up is with the slideshow on Flickr!

My biggest Quilting Goal for 2009 was to expand on my Quilting Abilities. As well as finishing some quilts. With a rush of babies born through the year – I had the perfect opportunity to expand with the completion of FOUR baby sized quilts and TWO  wallhangings for swaps I participated in. As well as an assortment of other Work In Progress Quilts… which I endeavour to finish in 2010! Pretty darn good I reckon ;)

Precious Gem

First Quilt completed ~ for Baby Jewels ~ born in March. My first use of a jelly roll. My first attempt at stippling (my gosh it was a bit dodgy!!!)

Flutterbye Friends

Made for Baby Claire who was the first of the 2nd generation babes born to our Mothers Group in March! For this I used up nearly the rest of the jelly roll left overs from the first quilt. Again I tried a stipple and found it a lot easier and neater than my first attempt. I was REALLY pleased with this quilt!    

Building Blocks

Little Baby Oliver was a surprise arrival to the family with only 3 weeks notice (yikes!) but what a beautiful surprise indeed! Stuck for ideas for boy colours ~ I chose the red / white / black theme and based it on a pattern in the jelly roll book. I did a basic straight stitch about 1/4 inch around each of the blocks and was so pleased with the final result – it was striking. I was getting a little slow in the gifting of this quilt as little Oliver was nearly 3 months when he finally received it ~ and I was still hand stitching the label down when his mum arrived ;)

I’m particularly proud of this one as it’s probably one of the only completed quilts that my beautiful Nan saw before she passed away. And boy was she impressed!!!

Pinwheel Dreaming

For little baby Lainey, our 2nd bub born to Mothers Group in August! I was convinced her mum was having a boy so had been playing around with ‘boy’ colours initially. Lucky I didn’t go on my gut instinct! I loved this one when it was completed – I’m very partial to the cute pinwheel block. 

Circle of Friends

A wall hanging for Kirsty as part of the swap we did with the Newbie Quilters. I loved doing this and I was most impressed with how my FMQ came out (although a little dodgy in places) and my first attempt at hand quilting. 

Hidden Pinwheels

This was made for AJ as part of the EB annual DQ Swap. It was totally NOT what I had set out to do, but in the end I loved the effect and again I have done hand quilting ~ and only a line of machine quilting (just incase that hand-quilting comes undone ;)

That’s it for 2009 folks. I do have one more quilt for Baby Liam which I was going to call completed in 09, but as I’ve still got to hand sew the binding / stitch the label on – I think I will leave it at that!

2010 contains many goals – but I will be back with a goal post (geddit… hee hee hee.) later today!