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

Finish it up Tuesday!

I took the advice of my blog friend Gillyflower and completed the quilt as it was and I am delighted with the results. It is a lovely size not too large but fits a single bed or in this photo a large armchair !
Hope you like it ! I am looking forward to starting a new project later this week, I am not sure what it is to be yet I like to daydream about a new quilt for a day or two. All I can be sure of is it will be made from the stash cupboard which is still hardly dented!
Liv x

Do I quilt while I'm ahead?

I have worked for the last few days adding borders to my medallion quilt. Initially,I made up the four patch border called for in the pattern but when I auditioned them with the quilt they did not work in these vivid colours as the four patches were too monochrome.
So I decided to do a postage stamp type border using nine patch blocks. I love how this has turned out, however the quilt is now measuring 64.5 inches and should have two additional borders one white and one a four inch single print border. My quandary is that I quite like it as it is now so to quilt or not to quilt that is the question.
All advice gratefully accepted!
Liv xx