Working on a quilt back

After my trip to the UK, I got down to some sewing this week on a backing large enough for my Reveille Quilt. I am using all of my precious American Jane stash. The back is almost ready enough just another couple rows to go and it should be large enough. The black pictorial fabric is Punctuation and the coloured piecing is a mix of various American Jane lines. 

Hope you are enjoying the weekend !

Liv x

Antique Quilts

I have been away in England looking after my granddaughter Lily for the last couple of weeks so no sewing although I did manage to buy some goodies in a local quilt shop and my daughter Sarah treated me to a gift of a little Janome sewing machine to take to classes as my big  Janome is too heavy to move to of the house.
I visited a wonderful place called Cragside in Northumberland while I was there and her are some wonderful quilts that were on the beds in some of the rooms. The house was originally home to wealthy Entrepreneur .
Back to normal sewing tomorrow!
Liv x

Reveille.....not just a little Schnibble!!

I started piecing this quilt yesterday when I should have been working on unfinished projects, just over 24 hours later I am ready to quilt (almost) . It is amazing what you can get done when you are avoiding doing what you should be doing!

This quilt is from the second Schnibbles book by Carrie Nelson and it is called Reveille. I had one and a half layer cakes in ABC by American Jane which I supplemented from other AJ stash. I never expected it to turn out so huge it is 84inches square I dread quilting it on my little domestic Janome.

It will not get quilted very soon as I have to make a backing from the stash cupboard and we have guests coming this weekend so housework looms!!!!!

One Quilt Two ways!

Here is the California Girl quilt finally finished. I pieced the back as I did not have enough yardage to make a whole cloth backing.I

am quite pleased with how it turned out in the end. Now I have some ufos to do before my next project which will almost certainly be another American Jane quilt. I have been following Fat Quarter Shops photos of Spring Quilt Market and I love her new line called Potluck. I just have to use up all of my stash first!

Have a great weekend !

Liv xxx

Show and Tell!

I am a member of the Irish Patchwork Society and yesterday some fellow quilters came to our local group to show their quilts. There were some wonderful quilts and I wanted to show you one of them as one in particular was a

prize winning quilt at last years Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. It is called Dear Jane Welcome  to the 21st Century. It was  pieced and quilted

by Valerie Mulally a talented Irish quilter.

Have a great weekend 

Liv x

Sunkissed Quilt top,

Well I have been glued to the sewing machine all weekend getting this top done. I do not have enough of anything suitable for the backing so I will have to piece a too if I am to just use stash. That is this weeks work!
Liv x

Work in progress California Girl Sunkissed

It is a holiday weekend here in Ireland and the weather for once has been sunny and bright. I decided it was time to start this quilt that I planned at least one year ago. I got all of the fabrics on sale late last year from Hancocks of Paducah. It nearly drove me mad trying to figure out the layout of this pattern from Fig Tree. I am pleased I persevered and now I need to trim the edges and add a couple of borders to make a nice little lap size quilt with a real summers day feel.
Hope it is sunny wherever you are!
Liv x