Espritpatch

I am sure you are bored with this quilt by now, but I am not! I love it, so much so that I entered it in the weekly competition at the Quilting Gallery. If you feel incline to do so, you can go and vote for my quilt here . Fingers crossed! Tomorrow is Friday Night Sew-In so hopefully I should have pictures of other projects to post soon! Celine

This week-end, I finished sewing the binding on Big Boy Hungry Caterpillar quilt. I am really happy about how it turned out and Big Boy loves it, so does Baby Daughter. So Big Boy slept under his quilt for the first time last night and I know that I now need to make a bright quilt for Baby Daughter. That will be Maisy! On Friday I went to the Knitting and Stitching Show in Alexandra Palace with my friends. It was great (even though we only really had time to browse the shops) and of course I made a few purchase: a rug for my son, some wool to make a frilly scarf for myself and some for my Auntie as a Christmas present, a fingerless gloves kit for my other Auntie as a Christmas present, some Decopatch paper, some yummy ribbons, two patterns from Australia and of course some fabric to make a few clothes for Baby Daughter. Celine

This week, I had to swap my day off from work so I was at home yesterday. I decided to have a go with my quilting frame again and try to quilt the Hungry Caterpillar quilt. I had decided that I would quilt that top on my frame so it had been folded and put away since I finished piecing it in June. So yesterday hubby installed the frame and I did put the Hungry Caterpillar on it. It took me only 1.5 hours to quilt it (it is a single bed size). I think it might have taken longer to prepare everything that to quilt actually. Today was our quilting group meeting, where we had 2 guest speakers. We first had Baby Girl (never too early to start) attending while her "Spiderman" Big Brother went to a birthday party. Then Spiderman came as he didn't feel good at the party and didn't want to stay. So he spent the rest of his day with our quilting group, playing Lego and drawing. I took advantage of space to square my Hungry Caterpillar quilt and sew the binding on. I now to...

Finally I have finished piecing my Hungry Caterpillar quilt on Saturday. I initially put the butterfly upside down but after unpicking, I got the top together! I really like how it has come out and so do the children: Baby Girl keeps trying to grab it to point at some of the squares and "talk" about them while Big Boy is trying to be protective of HIS quilt. Might have to make another bright quilt soon! I have ordered some bamboo blend batting for this quilt. Never used bamboo before but it is so soft that I will give it a try... later. I haven't done much more this week-end. Spent the day in Cambridge yesterday tyring to find the last missing bits for the Christening and Wedding we are inviting too soon. This time the shopping trip was quite successful, at long last. And tonight I cleared and tidy my sewing table which was in desperate need for it! Celine

My progress was very little on the Hungry Caterpillar quilt last week during the Friday Night Sew-In but I made up for it on Tuesday when I spent my day at my quilting group. I managed to get two third of the quilt top pieced and I really like how it is coming along, what do you think? Off to try and finish the last third now. See you soon. Celine

I know it's not Christmas yet but you want to check that lovely giveaway from Jenny at Elefantz. She is giving away patterns for her new Christmas quilts as well as lovely Christmas Roses fabrics from Robyn Pandolph in honour of her daughter's 16th birthday. Run to her blog to enter the giveaway before Tuesday 1st June. Fingers crossed. I finally spent the day with my local quilting group yesterday and I did good progress on my Caterpillar quilt as I managed to get two third of the top pieced. I'll show you a picture very soon. I was very pleased as I thought I wouldn't be able to attend despite booking the day off from work as Big Boy had been unwell over the week-end and we hadn't sleep much. Nice relaxing day in the end with a fair bit of sewing done. Celine

Although the kids were in bed relatively early last night, I didn't do much sewing. I started by writing my post for the Blogger Quilt Festival (thanks to all the visitors!) which took a bit of time and then when I went over to Amy's blog to link mine there, I was so tempted to go and browse around the festival so I spent a fair amount of time blog hopping... When I finally turned the computer off, I did little sewing, only framed my leaf and caterpillar but I did some cutting and planning for my Hungry Caterpillar quilt. I now know what I want to do, just needs doing now... See you soon. Celine