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Make It Perfect

.for baby M #4.

Yesterday at precisely 4:48pm I posted you a present from Tasmania.

This morning at 7:05am it arrived at your doorstep in Sydney. Talk about the awesomeness of Express Post!
I didn’t have time to send a note (hence reaching the post office 12 minutes before close time!) but this is what it would have said:

“Dear Baby Micah,

I made you this blanket so that you would quickly learn to
Eat.
Play.
Sleep.
Repeat.
None of this fussing around business that I have been hearing about.

And those bibs are made out of left-over material from the quilt that Gramma is making for you so that you can be all matchy-matchy and cool.

I love you little man who I haven’t even got to cuddle yet.

Love,
Aunty Toni
xxx”

(Reply from Micah here).

I wish I could say that I made up this design myself because I love it. But I didn’t. I got the free tutorial from here. It wasn’t tricky to make at all. All of that zig-zagging around the letters took a bit of time, but other than that it was a breeze.

This was my first time using chenille as a backing on a quilt too. I didn’t bother putting any wadding between the quilt top and the chenille because I wanted it to be lightweight enough that Micah can be wrapped in it for sleeping. Besides the horrendous shedding of fluff, the chenille was great. I think I have found a new favourite way to back baby quilts!

For the bibs, I joined three big strips of left-over fabric together and then used the bib template out of my Bambino pattern to cut out the bib shape. I think this is also going to be a new baby favourite of mine and a great way to use up scraps (and we all know how much I love a good scrap project!)


Tommy was gracious enough to be a bib model for me one morning before breakfast. I paid him by letting him choose one bib to keep 🙂

SUPPLIES:
QUILT
Heather Bailey, Nicey Jane, Hop Dot in Cream
Valori Wells, Olive Rose, Curves in Red
Heather Bailey, Nicey Jane, Hop Dot in Olive
Kokka, Polka Small in Grey
Blue fabric unknown?
BIBSAmy Schimler, On A Whim, Lions and Tigers in Earth
Amy Schimler, On A Whim, Linework Birds in Brown
Amy Schimler, On A Whim, Linework Birds in Tan

May 3, 2010
Make It Perfect

.Numbers Quilt.

You may, or may not, remember this fabric purchase awhile back. A couple of nights ago Lil’s Numbers Quilt was completed, washed yesterday, and photographed today.I hand-quilted it. Truth be told, I don’t know how to machine quilt. I recently bought a new sewing machine and walking-foot to go with it, but I don’t have a huge desire to use it. I really like hand-quilting, I like the puckery-handmade look it gives (when I do it anyway!!) I like my quilts so that they don’t look perfect – I think the generations to come will like the handmade look too. To quilt it, I used a thick DMC perle thread in red and then quilted around all of the red numbers.
Then I quilted a double row of stitching around the pink border.
The green border is actually a 3-D flap that you can lift up. I thought the quilt needed a little bit of extra detail seeing as there isn’t a whole lot of piecing going on.
And the back…to save money and fabric wastage, I used some left-over front fabric to make a strip on the back.
Tick! Another project marked off on my long list of “things to do before the baby is born.” Washing the windows is on the list too…this was more fun!

April 8, 2009
Make It Perfect

.finito.

I seriously thought I started this quilt about a year ago…blogs are great for keeping track of dates and times, turns out it was 7 months ago!! Well I finally finished it. I love having a “quilt on the go” with no time limit, to do a bit here and there when I feel like it, just for fun.This is Oscar’s snuggle on the couch quilt. Mum makes her grandchildren a cot-sized quilt and gives it to them when they are born, so I thought it would be nice for me to make them another special quilt to snuggle under when their baby one is too small.

May 6, 2008
Make It Perfect

Another quilt finished!

Just wanted to post some photos of a quilt that I started AGES ago – like maybe a year…and have finally gotten around to finishing off!
It goes with the cushions on our couch and was nice and quick and easy to make. Jaron thinks it looks like an old Maori woman’s lava-lava!

May 22, 2007