A Single Girl...

...for a single lady. I'm doing a bit of an informal sew-along with Nova. She's already started, I've just tagged along for the ride (and for the motivation!)

Goodness, it has been 3 weeks since my last post! Part of that was just slackness on my part, and the rest I blame on my incredibly incompetent internet service provider, who stuffed me around for a total of 8 days (no phone, no internet).

Thankfully my service has been restored, so back to blogging. Instead of giving you a blow-by-blow rundown of what I've been doing, I have included some pics instead!

Wedding Quilt complete

Rolled up and ready to gift

Mod Sampler Quilt-along (my progress so far)

Etsy custom order

Pinwhale cord dress for a new baby girl

Closer shot of the embroidery

The embroidery on the little dress was taken from this book. The design is called "wild bunch", and I just used three colours from my stash for the flowers.

My progress on the quilt-along has been so slow - waiting for fabric to arrive from the US, then popping over to the Amitie sale for some extras (which of course lead to a whole re-thinking of my colour scheme). After all that, I realised how much cutting was involved! I have chopped up all of my dominant pieces (all spots), and am halfway through cutting the prints.

Elizabeth at Oh fransson! has been so thorough with her guidance for this quilt-along. Her posts are such a wonderful resource that it is well worth a look if you haven't already checked it out.

Wedding Quilt

I think I work much better with a firm, self-imposed deadline. Of course, most of the work still gets done a only few days before the deadline.

This is what my sewing table currently looks like. I'm madly trying to finish a quilt destined to be a wedding gift for a friend. Her first wedding anniversary is on March 8th, but she and her man will be in Geelong celebrating another friend's wedding, so I told them I'd present it to them on Friday afternoon before they head off.

It's made up mostly in linen and linen blends, with a patchwork of some favourite Lara Cameron prints. It's larger than I expected (190cm by 210cm), it fits so nicely on my queen sized bed.

I've been reading up on free motion quilting of late, and had my first practice tonight. I enjoyed it so much that I thought I'd do just a little on this quilt, around the green border. 
I'm debating now whether I should keep sewing or not, but just looking at the computer monitor makes me want to close my eyes and sleep, so I think I'll take the hint!

Oh, before I forget! Once I bundle this quilt off to my friends, I'll be joining Elizabeth from Oh, Fransson! in her quilt-along. She's doing it over 4 weeks, I believe, which may be a little fast for me, but I'll try to keep up. Shall I see you all there?