Purple, Green and Pink Quilt

This is the quilt I made for my son for Christmas this year. I decided to make one for their living room after all, it is a smaller size and I have used the colours they have in their room which is open plan and goes into dining area and kitchen. The living area is mostly purple as they have a new purple sofa and armchair, but their kitchen area is pink and lime green and they have ornaments and bits of all the colours through out. I thought they could have it over the back of the sofa or arm chair and would be handy if it gets cold in the winter or just as a spare cover is someone stays over.

The pattern I used for this one is the same as for the last two quilts with the 6 sqares and a rectangle to make a block but instead of putting them together randomly I used the same colour for all the rectangles and then put them so that they made a zigzag shape across the quilt.

Pink and Blue Quilt

This is the other quilt I made from the parcel of scraps I bought on Ebay. It is for my eldest daugther for Chrismtas this year. I have put some pink beads on this one for decoration and it is double bed size. For the backs of this one and the other I used an old duvet cover which I took apart. It was just the right size.

My First Quilt

This is the quilt I made while on my course. It lasted for four weeks and we went on evening a week so had to get a lot of it done at home. It wasn't technically the first ever quilt I had made as I had made one when my eldest daughter was little and she had loved it. It wasn't a cotton fabric quilt though and I hadn't put any wadding in it or anything, was just like a large blanket but she loved it.

This one was for my youngest daughter for Christmas and she was into pink and black (her room had been decorated in these colours not long before) and also liked skulls so the fabric was just right for her. I bought the special fabrics from sellers on Ebay as you can just about find any pattern on a piece of fabric if you look hard enough. I then bought some other flowery pinks and blacks at the fabric shop to fill it all out. I used plain white cotton for the plain rectangles.

When I had finished making the quilt up and had done all of the hadn quilting I decided to embroider my daughter's name on some of the white patches with a metallic variable coloured thread. Her name is Rebecca and we usually call her Becca but at school she is known as Becky and she was into writing her name with all different spellings, like Beka, Bekkii etc etc. I sat and worked out all the different spellings I could think of then wrote them out in bubble writing on paper so they looked the right size to fit on a patch then cut them all out and pinned the name to the quilt and embroidered around the edge, then filled in the other lines that were underneath the paper. It took quite along time to finish but looked nice when it was done.