Saturday 3 December 2011

Fenced In is Finally Finished

Ooh, I do like a nice bit of alliteration.

Yes, Waif's quilt "Fenced In" is finally complete and on his bed. He is chuffed to bits with it, and so am I. It has to be my favourite quilt so far (sssh, don't tell his brother). A bit tricky to get a photo that shows it off in all its glory so here are three:

Fenced Infenced in 2fenced in full flat shot

After months of laboriously and lovingly hand quilting with pearl cottons, I passed it on to the Binding Fairy (aka my mum, aka Spidergran) to sew the binding on. Didn't she do a great job?

This is the first time I have used a pieced backing on a quilt and I quite like that too:

fenced in back

although sometimes the multiple seams did make it a bit tricky to get the quilting thread through.

In other news, I knocked up a little penguin Christmas ornament:

round penguin

We have all been enjoying watching the BBC's Frozen Planet and Waif in particular has formed quite a love for penguins. I thought it only fitting that we should have some penguin ornaments to hang on the tree. I stumbled across A Creative Dream blog and June is sharing 15 days of 15 ornaments, including two penguin ornaments amongst others (santas, snowmen, moons, an angel...they are all gorgeous). The tutorial for this particular penguin can be found here although you may notice I have made a couple of lazy stitcher amendments...French knots instead of beads for eyes, and my penguin has a plain scarf...

Waif likes it anyway:

waif models penguin

15 comments:

  1. The quilt is fabulous! I also love the penguin ornament.

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  2. Oh he turned out just adorable Viv... but that quilt.. OH MY GOODNESS... it is GORGEOUS... just magical... I love it!

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  3. Fenced In is fantastic! The colors are beautiful and I love the houses in all shapes and sizes. You should feel very proud of yourself with this quilt. What an accomplishment!

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  4. LOVE THAT QUILT!! Absolutely inspiring. It would be my favorite too...sh....love your penguin too!

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  5. I have seen your quilt grow from a single house through to a fenced in village and have loved seeing every single piece of it. I hope that Waif has sweet dreams sleeping under it.

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  6. ACK! that quilt is stunning!!!!!

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  7. Fabulous, amazing, gorgeous, fantastic quilt...you have SUCH talent! (Your ornament is awfully sweet, too!)

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  8. The fenced in quilt is fabulous. What a great look. A very cute penguin too.

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  9. Really really stunning.. Love the penguin too.

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  10. The quilt is amazing!
    The penguin ornament is very cute. I still love making things for my kids even though they're grown.

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  11. Your quilt is breathtaking, the colours really make me drool, it has a lovely autumn/winter feel, and that penguin would make awesome ear muffs! :)

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  12. I love this quilt. The oranges and yellows on the blue backgrounds just makes everything pop. Your cute ornament is fun also. Thanks for sharing the link.

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  13. What a gorgeous quilt. Simply lovely!

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  14. Best quilt ever! It beats the usual wonky houses hands up! Hurrah! And how cool that he loves it so much!!!! I am a bit concerned about the fat little penquin ornament, however. Here in the US.....'knocked up' usually means made pregnant ;)

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