When you go on holiday AND start a new quilt!

I went away for a few days in a campervan! great :)






















and what do you do when you go away? You start a new English Paper Pieced quilt!





Here's my box of fabric ready to go on the camping table, with wine and a view of course!

I've liked the fussy cutting in the la passacaglia quilts I've seen on Pinterest so I thought I'd have a go.




Here's the inner rosette





and the next rows!

I'm up to the stars but its time to go home! So I shall complete those in another post.

When you have very little notice!

AARRRGGGGHHHH!

I took my mini quilt present to work to show my friends and discovered one of them is getting (quietly) married this holiday too! She cooed over my quilt and I said I had had lots of time to work on it then she came out with she was also getting married and it was just close family. But we can't have that! She needs a present and a congratulations on her marriage! It's part of what quilts are for! Especially for me - I love giving someone something special.

So this weekend I have non-stopped sewed and quilted to try and get another wedding quilt ready. I used the same random method and different fabrics from my scrap bag but I didn't have the head space to come up with a new idea - so it again was hearts and initials.

I think my quilting is better on the top - I did some echo quilting which I really like - but I didn't spend enough time securing the layers so I have a couple of pleats in the backing. I learn from my mistakes and will be more thorough next time.

I put on red binding rather than the green - which do you prefer?!

Finished my Wedding Wall Hanging!

I'm done!

And I absolutely adore it!

I quilted it with different patterns. When I made a baby quilt for a friend who was a geologist, I chose strata, pebbles and fossils and Vicki loved it - she is also a geologist! She said that she wanted the same when she had one. I think she had a premonition!!

So I have tried to include lots of fossil, strata and pebble type patterns in my quilting. I hope she loves it!

I love the green binding. Perfect.

Here are lots of closeups!

the whole quilt!

I took it outside in the sun :)

For Vicki and Richard <3

Hope you love it as much as me!!!!

Now to put the binding on Hiawatha.

Loving the layering

So two blue ones and it could be finished.... its not but it could be

sorry its so creased but holding it in my hand while appliqueing makes it crease and I'm  using frixion pen to mark so no iron yet!

As I was sewing the blue ones on I thought 'this is the last pair. It sweeps across the fabric pleasingly.
But I had to test with another two whether it is better with them.... and it is... with 5 more.

Any guesses where I'm planning to put them?

Tiny green hearts

Today I added 2 tiny green hearts and a pink one!

Can you spot them?

Still doesn't look finished to me. More scrap raiding tomorrow evening.