Yes I know this is a quilting blog and there has not been much quilting around for a while and there has been more books but that, next to quilting, is my most favourite hobby!  Anyway the reason the quilting has been a little lacking is because I have finished two huge quilts one for Eldest and the other for Jayne’s daughter who moved into her first home middle of last year.  

I tried hard to actually do the quilting on my machine at home but sadly  the weight of both quilts meant that as I started to quilt them the quilt was slipping and therefore the stitches were also slipping.  I had to send both of them to my now “local” quilt shop for them to be quilted there on their long arm machine.  They did a great job on both.

The one below is Eldest’s king size bed quilt:

The picture below is the backing which is actually called “Grunge” but works very well with the front colours.

Here it is on their bed with Little Man helping to show it off!  I am really pleased how it turned out. 

This is Emily’s Quilt.  Jayne managed to find out from Emily what her favourite colours were and I was able to find the material to go along with it and the material is actually Liberty fabric.  I love the way it came out.  

To go along with the front I found this sage green gingham which Emily loves. 

Here it is in situ on her bed and she loves it.  

You don’t realise how long these bed size quilts take until you are in the middle of it and of course I was delayed with Ops and life in general.  It also took a while for me to get the bindings sewn on to the backs but I am really pleased with them.

My next project is a baby quilt for Little Lady which is done except for the quilting which I will be able to do myself.  I then have a single bed size quilt to make for Little Man for his new bed and then there is a quilt I want to make for our bed, but at the rate I am going that will be next year now!  I also promised quilts for all our pets, so three dogs and two cats!  I do have the material for them just need to get them made although they will not be huge items to do.  It is, as always, time that I need to find more of!

Today in the UK it is due to be 18°C which is the warmest day so far this year and unusual for March.  It will not stay this warm for long but any day like this is a bonus.  I have home jobs to do today as the diswasher engineers are coming tomorrow to repair the dishwasher.  Friday I am at Eldest’s sorting his work out and the weekend is a complete wash out as DH is setting up a swimming compere event on Friday and will be there all day Saturday and then has to pack up and then set up another event on Saturday evening for all day Sunday and is staying at a hotel on Saturday night.  I am also helping our Swimming Club on Saturday evening at the local pool at an event they are doing there!  I still cannot drive so our good friend is giving me a lift so that is the whole weekend gone.

I have started my Spring Cleaning and washed the mattress protector, pillow protectors and all the winter bedding, cushions and throws and swapped them out for the Spring Summer bedding.  We also flipped our mattress!  So one job off the list, a million more to do of course!!! This weekend will give me chance to get quite a few jobs done and ticked off my list, although it is going to be cooler at the weekend after today being nice and warm.

I hope you are having a good week.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco  xx