OMG it's Finished

My OMG for March is finished and OMG I love it.

I am so happy with how it has turned out and yes my Wild Quilting is not perfect but does that worry me-not at all! It is the first time I have actually stitched feathers on a quilt and they turned out better than I expected.
It is quilted totally freehand with Glide thread top and bobbin.
It is going to be hard to put his in the post but not to worry I have been asked to make another one for  one of my colleagues first grandchild who will be born in a few months.
Now a bit of a photo overload but as this is my record of the quilt you can choose whether to keep looking or close out now!

And the back although it does not photograph as well I hoped. It does look great-and yes it is quite bright.

And now to decide my April OMG project.

OMG March Goal

My goal this month is get this Elephant quilt quilted and bound and on it's way to it's little recipient. I now have a request to make another one but in different colours.

As it is the second day of  March here, and I have managed to get quite a bit of quilting done  I am hopeful I can meet my goal.

I have never really been confident enough to quilt feathers before-oh I have all the books, have

got Craftsy classes and have drawn them out a lot but never thought I could quilt them (and in fact have to admit never really liked them that much!!). Well I came across Natalia Bonner's Swirly Feather and also have her new book 'Next Steps in Machine Quilting' that has this design in it so I thought this was the quilt to give it ago, and I'm liking them. I also got Bethanne Nemesh's class on iQuilt -If you can Feather you can Freehand, which is great and so here I go!!

February Finish and March Goal Begun

I was too late posting to link up my February Goal to OMG, but I set my goal to have this one quilted and bound and it is done and ready to go to it's new home next week.

Lovely minkee dot on the back. I had another longarmer say to me the other day that she couldn't believe I used minkee on the back of the baby quilts as she had always had problems with it so never uses it. I told her that when I first used it I never knew it could cause problems so just went on ahead and quilted merrily along. I have to say I have never had an issue, so am I lucky or what??
On the machine now is the elephant quilt and the doodling has begun-

Time to Start the Quilting

The Elephant Baby Quilt Flimsy is complete and it is time to start quilting!!

Colours are a bit washed out in the photo and I really should've ironed it before the photo but it's on the machine now ready to go!

Quilting Has Begun

I have started quilting the Srippie Quilt- Apple Green Minkie Dot on the back.
Swirls, Squares and Stretchy meandering-

January Update/February Goals

So January for me was a bit of a wipe out really. I ended up having to make frequent visits for appointments, and then having a general Anaesthetic for some surgery-nothing major and the results were fine so no worries. I had thought I was having the surgery under local but the surgeon decided at the time a general anaesthetic would be best. it is years since I had had one and forgot how they can wipe you out. I had a planned week off work and thought I would gets a lot of sewing done, but it was lots of lying around doing very little.
It's all good now but because of my setback my January OMG finish didn't happen. I did get it to the stage where the pieces are ironed down and are ready to sew.

So for my February OMG project I plan to quilt and bind the flimsy below. Another of the Strippie Quilts that are quick to put together and make great baby quilts. I am too late for the link up but posting here will challenge me to finish it.

While in my time out zone, when there was not a lot of concentration happening I decided to sew up left over jelly roll pieces and make them into a cross quilt. Still a work in progress but will make a good cuddle, lap quilt for winter.

Happy Quilting and thanks for visiting.

Postie Excitement

Look what I found on my doorstep- well they were in a little postage box!!



A gorgeous bundle of Oakshott fat eighths in the most wonderful colours. ( Judy's picture from her blog).

At the end of Dec Judy who blogs at Quilt Paradigm had a giveaway for her two year blogiversary.  I was one of three lucky winners of her giveaway and less than a week after she put the package in the post in USA it arrived on my doorstep in New Zealand so how efficient is that. If you have never visited Judy's blog then I urge you to go and check out her amazing quilting projects.
Thank you so much Judy and also congratulations to the two other winners.