I've finished my first quilt! Yay for me! I'm so please with the final results. And here she is!
We moved to Singapore from the UK in June when I was 3 months pregnant - with no job and not prosepct of getting one in my condition(!) I was a little bored. I'd always wanted to make a patchwork quilt, and had one failed attempt with my mother's sewing machine when I was about 10 years old. So I thought I'd occupy by pregnant time by making a quilt for my little baby. I found a quilting shop which also does lessons and signed up for the beginners class in October. A mere six and a half months and a baby later it's finished!
It's a hand pieced and hand quilted sample quilt using traditional blocks, these are my favourite blocks.
Hand quilting is labour intensive but I love the end result. I started to quilt in the ditch, but it was just too hard to do by hand with all the layers, so I started again sewing a quarter inch in from the seams. I decided to do the minimal quilting needed to get the quilt finished - knowing that it can be added to later - so all the sashing and corners are quilted, and there are two lines of quiting in the border. I put little hearts in the coner squares - a little bit of love going into the quilt.
I chose a pink and green colour scheme as I knew I was having a girl. And I just love the Freshcut by Heather Bailey print which I used for the backing.
I have enjoyed every moment of making my first quilt and can't wait to start the next one! I've call the quilt "From Mummy with Love" and I hope Sophia will cherish it for years to come.
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