Long time no blog!

Is it too late to say happy new year? I mean it is february after all.. Well anyways happy new year, hope it's a good one!
So I made up a few presents in time for christmas, but actually forgot to take photo's of most of them! Silly me!

Some of the things made included
- A fake fur zebra print pouffe/beanbag for my bestie
- A pin cushion made with a little screenprint and fabric made by Laura and Linda Kemshall for my lovely mumma.
- And two quilts of sorts..... (Pictured below)

Firstly, this was a quilt I made for my SO and his two boys. My SO has a habit of throwing out a t-shirt when he buys a new one, and he always gives them to me to dispose of, so I have been collecting them in preparation to make a t-shirt quilt. I backed the pieces of t-shirt with a lightweight fusible vilene to make them stronger and less stretchy, so I didn't get any movement when quilting.

I had a small remnant of this fighter jet material which I used for the backing. I know its not in the same direction as the patchwork, but my SO and the boys love it all the same.
I also didn't quilt it too much as I didn't want to quilt through all the logo's/motifs and blur them in any way.

I made this simple, neutral coloured quilt for mum for christmas. I used simple four patches with sashing around them. I quilted it on our large quilting frame which was tricky because it is at mums so she had to be banished from the sewing room for the afternoon whilst I did it, as I wanted it to be a semi-surprise!

Oh, and meet Holly our lovely labrador, she gets a fair amount of use of the quilt too, she is 13, a bit fragile and gets a little cold and Dad has a habit of covering her at night with whichever quilt is closest, spoilt pooch hehe!

My new years resolution ( I know, I know its february, bear with me) is to blog more, so here's hoping!

(sorry about the squiffy pictures, they were taken on my new phone)

Kellye xxx