My Dolly Quilt

So here it is, my finished dolly quilt...

Complete with hand quilting using my fabulous pearl cotton #8 threads...

And finished in under a week...phew!  I have to say I am feeling quite pleased with myself, particularly as I adapted it from a pattern in the Material Obsession book which I later noticed came under the 'advanced' category.  I think it  must be 'advanced' because of the freezer paper applique in the centre, but if there is one thing I have learnt about and improved upon with my C and G course it's applique in all its forms, so to me this was a breeze! 

Now I just need to consider what to 'do' with it.  I think I will hold on to it for safe keeping and stumble upon it in years to come and admire the lovely fabrics all over again. 

Dolly quilt, it has been a pleasure. 

But now back to studying! 

Sew Excited!

Look what arrived in the post today...

My gorgeous pearl cotton #8 threads, and I still can't believe I only paid £12.99 for 20 them, that has to be the bargain of the year. 

And I think I mentioned that after I have completed module 4 I was going to make a dolly quilt with the fabulous fabrics I purchased last week... well I couldn't wait that long!  Over the weekend I came up with this...

Front (obviously)

Back

I had so much fun with the dresden plate template, and hadn't originally planned to make a border, but I thought it would be fun and add another dimension, and it came together surprisingly quickly.  I based it on a quilt pattern from the book Material Obsession (the original quilt has 24 'flowers' - that's a lot of dresden plate blades!) and I designed the (very simple) border myself. 

So that's the top and back made, but just my luck, I don't have enough wadding, so poor husband Pete is on a mission to find me some on his lunchbreak at work today...(can he be trusted to get the right thing...we shall see).  Then I can get quilting with my new threads - I can hardly wait!

 

 

Oh and I hope you like my re-designed blog, I have decided to go pink, I think it's much more me.  And I have lovingly labelled every blog post I have ever written to make finding past topics much easier.  How about that. 

 

 

For those that know me personally, you will know that I am also waiting for something else to arrive; it's late already, and I don't think it will be coming in the post...