Snooty cat revived

Ages - and I mean AGES - ago, I started a quilt that went awry. The Snooty Cat Quilt. Last posted about over 4 years ago (when I described my dilemma in detail).

The other day, I got out the pieces and thought, what the heck. They're cut wrong and don't fit and don't make exactly the patter I planned back then, BUT, they'll make some kind of pattern, and who cares anyway!

So I started sewing them together. So what if the diagonals in the rectangles don't meet the corners of the center square...

The basic pattern is still there, I get to use up this line of fabric, and best of all, I'm quilting :)

Besides this project on the go, I am hand-quilting the first of those 2 baby quilts (the dark one) and making a little iCover for one of those Apple products :)

Happy quilting!

Treasure Treadle

This is unfortunately not mine. I found it when I checked out the apartment next to my grandparents. It's being renovated after the previous tenant died of old age, and some of his stuff is still there, including this old Singer sewing machine. I've seen people rave about these treadles on quilting blogs but don't know anything about them myself. I like he idea of sewing without electricity, though...

Border choices

These quilts definitely need peppy borders, they're too dull, not enough popping colour in them.

I've experimented with some colours, trying to pick up the red in one of the fabrics.

Nice match for the orange-red in the colourful square

Too dull

Too red

Too busy

First one it is then :)

And for the other (light version) quilt, something to pick up the green squares would be good. Let's see what the stash has to offer!

NaturalFeel: Light

Here's the light-coloured sibling!

More orangey than I had expected...

NaturalFeel: Dark

Tadaaa, here's the center of the first quilt top finished...

It'll be fun to quilt in the large background areas!

Layout time

When you have 4 of everything and many of one thing (i.e. the beige filler squares, since I didn't have enough light-coloured charms for all the 9 patches), layout is always fun. 

I do try not to have the same pattern next to each other, and to get a bit of balance. I find taking a photo and looking at that helps to get an overview...

Now cut the rest of the brown background squares and rectangles and I'm good to go...

NaturalFeel Babyquilts

Those baby quilts I mentioned the other day will be following this single Irish chain pattern and will be hand-quilted just as this quilt from a few years ago:

I felt like using natural colours and picked some left-over charms. Can't remember the name of the pattern, MODA something :)

There'll be a dark version (brown background with beige chain) and a light version (beige background with dark brown/green/orange chain).

It'll be lovely to be working by hand on a small quilt again; I'm really quite looking forward to the handquilting! My finger tips have gotten awfully soft :-)