For Christmas I made my two nieces a special lap quilt each. This quilt was made from a 'layer cake' (explained below) of Basic Grey fabric called 'Fruitcake'. It's made by Moda and the pattern 'Scrappy Mountain Majesties' is free from the Quiltville website, which I love....
The other quilt (below) is from a free pattern by Daniela Stout of Cozy Quilt Designs and is called 'Breaking Waves' but I assembled the squares into bigger, concentric squares, not waves. I posted in detail here on the blog 'It's a Creative World' all about how it was made with step-by-step photos and useful links.
To explain, a 'Jelly roll' is a roll of 2.5" strips (depending on manufacturer the amount differs -mine was 40) and a 'Layer Cake' is a pile of 10" squares (mine had 40). Both are co-ordinated fabrics...
If anyone wants to know where I got the fabric it was here.
With the leftovers I've been making our family a lap quilt. It'll be for next year now. The centre panel of patchwork is from a pattern called 'Streak of Sunshine' and is free here on Quiltville.
You can see the quilt more clearly as Smurf was helping me baste the quilt...
The centre panel is made from 10 jelly roll strips I had left over. All the random little squares that frame the centre panel were cobbled together from off-cuts from my nieces 2 quilts and a few left over 10" squares from the layer cake I bought. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in that! I had to buy some more wadding and a piece of backing fabric too. Shame I didn't manage to finish it for Christmas 2010 but we'll pop it in the attic and get it down when we put the tree up this year. I'd recommend the 'streak of sunshine' pattern for anyone starting out as it's easy and fun.
I've got a new project bubbling away at the moment and will share more once it's got going.
Ever talented my daughter - did I tell you? Love xxx
Posted by: Maz | January 19, 2011 at 09:34 PM