Rainy Maleny

Maleny has been living up to its nick name, "Rainy Maleny" lately. We had a huge downpour today, the rain falling in sheets from the sky, thunder and flash flooding while I was in my shop fiddling around with a little quilt I started last year. I had to dash out side to take some photos to share with you!

When I went back in and surveyed my progress... OMG... It took a while to work out what the problem was, but I'd sewn the bottom row on the wrong way. (You can see the dark halves of the log cabins are all on the wrong side of the blocks.) Did it matter? The piece was only destined to be a cushion in the end, to make my shop arm chair more comfy. I spent way too long deciding that it DID matter, and reluctantly unpicked the row. Lucky it was small...

It does look better now! I went home and finished the top later and will show you in the next post. It's very cute - even if a bit fussy.

xoxo Ann.

Serendipity and A Baby Quilt!

I've just finished a little baby quilt for my sister's new baby girl! My sister lives in PNG with her husband and recently they adopted a little baby girl - two weeks ago! She is my first niece and I'll be meeting her when I go up to Port Moresby next month. It's very exciting.
But I had to make a quilt and I used the sweet Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit range of fabrics as the starting point, combining the squares with a few of the lovely Moda fabrics from my stock. Of course, I used my hypoallergenic Bamboo wadding , ideal for children's quilts, too. I trimmed some of the blocks with some lovely vintage rick rack I found at a garage sale. Serendipity! It all worked out...
At the same time I was also making a quilt with Pacific Island prints and the fabric scraps from that serendipitously found their way onto the folded baby quilt. I thought the combination works really well so I've made a little bundle to sew together later... we'll see... sometimes those coincidental combinations are the most inspiring and work out best!