Monday 29 April 2013

Beautiful Batiks

Although I usually post about quilts that are licensed and in some cool retro fabric, or have something to do with a story book, I do make other quilts as well! Recently my parents were in Hawaii and my mom found a great deal on Batik fabrics. Batiks are hand dyed prints that come in a wide variety of beautiful prints. So my mom brought me back ..... Close to 15 yards of fabric...haha! I bet the people at the airport were surprised to see that going through the luggage scanner.

So I had enough fabric to make about 4 batik quilts. I have made two tops already and I just finished quilting the first one. I have the other batik top still to quilt and hopefully it will be up in the store shortly!

Also, did you notice I figured out a way to put a handy link to my store right on the side of this blog!

So now I only have about 6 more tops to quilt :P


Sunday 28 April 2013

Peter Pan

This year was the 40th anniversary of Peter Pan. I love all Disney movies so I was super excited to get this one on blu ray. I was also thinking that this would make an excellent theme for a nursery! Especially, if you didn't know the gender! Tinkerbell for a girl and Captain Hook for the boys! And of course the magic Neverland.

When I was pregnant I just had to know what I was having but maybe next time I could wait....maybe. I bought enough material to make two Peter Pan quilts just in case this is my next nursery theme! One for the store, one for me!


Saturday 27 April 2013

Branching Out!

As you may remember a few years ago I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for a friend of mine who was having a baby. Well, that started a frenzy and I ended up making over a dozen of them. The quilt is so cute and great for either gender but I got sick of making them.

Fast forward to much more recently. Using some scrapes of fabric I made myself a little square quilt to put in the car seat for my daughter when we traveled. I loved it so much that I made one for a friend of mine who had a baby right after me.  She also got a lot of use out of it and suggested that I list one for sale in my shop....so I made a small Very Hungry Caterpillar for the shop.

It's a two sided quilt and is currently for sale in my etsy shop.




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