Six bushfire quilts

Really love to see these 6 quilts stacked before they were posted to Jan Mac for the Oz Comfort Quilts group. They have a target primary school, but weren't able to hand them out to every child yet, as there weren't enough boy quilts. 

I had a brainwave that we could use green and black squares to make minecraft quilts for boys aged 8-13. That should be right up their alley, and simple to make also.

Freshly snapped out of my garden, this wonderful tree is flowering all over, and I can't wait to collect some gumnuts.

The Raven update

My go to hand work project!

The blocks need berries... 

Just plugging away in the background, I have run out of the tape I use to make the 1/4 inch strips and waiting for the shop to get more in.

What to do? I will just have to surge forward. Most blocks are prepared and ready to stitch. These are really big measuriang about 50cm square!

Ohhh the berries

Plugging away at the berries for my handwork....

I've decided it would be great to finish this quilt in time for the Townsville show (just because it gives me a deadline to finish it, and I have so many quilts to make in me still!)

It took an hour to make 9 circles, without stitching them down... I still need to make some in other colours, and I think I need about 70 in total. Oh my!

Pattern credit: The Raven by Blackbird Designs. Fabric choices by me.

Squirrels!!!

Ta-da! Really chuffed to have finished this squirrels quilt for Master 4. It;s fresh, bright and yet, won't show the dirt! Hahahaha.

And it's his favourite colours. 

Even the back turned out to be pretty trippy with the mix up of pieces from the $5 doona cover cut up.

Most importantly, my little boy is sleeping under his big boy quilt made with love.

Irregular shoe drool

Well, I was drooling over Irregular Shoes a year ago when I was in Melbourne, recently shared some images of them online, and so when I went to see Tracey and Wazza, Waz said I had to hang on while he rushed out to show me these!

He bought Tracey shoes! They just came back from Melbourne, and she has a few pairs. Ohhh my!

A flat pair also, which I am looking forward to seeing next time.

*Blessed are the shoemakers (and wearers).

Joining

Eep! Eep! (or whatever noise squirrels make), I have finished the blocks and the joining has begun!

I might even have enough fabric to make a matching smaller quilt for his toddler bed.

Love love love the purplish, lime, whites and brights that are making this pop!

Is that my blanket?

"Mum, is that my blanket?"

Yes!! Woohoo!! Master 4 has already recognised that I am making his quilt. Music to the ears of a creatrix.

Every maker's desire is for the finished product to be enjoyed and cherished with as much delight as she had in the creative process.

This is an 11 inch square set out as a mini quilt sandwich with 3 layers: the back, the wadding and the top fabric. Once it's quilted as a mini quilt all the blocks are joined together to make a pattern.

See that funny little plastic thing? It's a quilters essential item. In the old days a quilter used a sharpened bone to mark straight lines for cross hatching, and that is where she would stitch.

This Hera marker is the modern day version of the bone. It's plastic, and shaped kind of like its predecessor. It marks a crease in the layers that isn't visible after stitching and if you make a mistake it steams out with the iron. I haven't found anything I like better for marking quilts in my 24 years in crafting them.

Creating 9 of these little squirrel blocks is today's project. I'm so happy that 4yo is already going "nuts" over it.