Another Finish - Dead Simple QAL

aka Aiden's Quilt

After a long day at my sewing machine yesterday quilting this beast and a long night stitching on the binding and a little time this morning hand quilting the red squares I officially have another finish. And the best bit, I have a super happy 13 year old son who is delighted with his quilt and keeps giving me cuddles and saying thank you. That makes the holes in my finger well worth the pain!

Finished size - 75" x 67" approx

The quilt with it's new owner :o)

This kid is getting so tall now. In the last month he has shot up and overtaken me

so the boarders helped get that extra length for a growing boy and to finish it off,

all framed in red.

After this photo shoot my young man came inside to put his quilt away and guess where I found it......

Layed out lovingly on his bed. :o)

Thank you for stopping by,

Happy stitching,

Sharon

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Dead Simple Quilt-a-long with a Teenage twist

aka - Aiden's Quilt

I managed to get the FQ's cut into charm squares over the school holidays

and then sought the assistance of this quilts owner to be ....... my teenage son to help with the layout.

And, after waiting a couple of hours he did eventually get out of bed (what is it with teenage boys?) and helped with the layout. 

He had a couple of ideas of his own to make this quilt a little more "him" or "his" and whilst I was waiting for him to get out of bed I came up with this, using the scraps as he had said that he wanted his name on it.

If I had more fabric I would have loved to have done this all the way around the boarder.

He also wanted to add something else, can you see what he added?

Yep a POP of RED

So as you can see I have done his name in the same Red.

I love his suggestion and think it looks great but I am his proud Mum so

of course I love it!  :o)

It is currently hanging in his room whilst I finish a couple of other things.  I just need to find a backing fabric ..... hmm Blue or Cream? ..... when I work this out  I will then quilt it for him.

If you would like to see some of the other versions being created in this Quilt-a-long pop on over to

Lily's Quilts and follow the links.

Happy sewing,

Sharon

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A little quiet around here .........

Yes I know. My blog has gone a little quiet for the last few days after it went gusto for the few days before that. I am hoping now that it will return to "regular programming" and settle down a little. 

Why did it do this? For those who read my blog regularly will know that my dear brother-in-law passed away a bit over 2 weeks ago and finally we were able to lay him to rest and celebrate his life on Monday afternoon.  We are now back home and getting back into the swing of our daily life again.

School holidays are finished and the three eldest Children are back at school which now leaves Miss Lily to get back into the routine of only having me around most of the day!  Some days I feel a little greedy having her all to myself, she is such a pleasure to be around, always happy and such a girly girl :o)  Maybe I am just savouring every moment knowing that she is our last and I wont be doing this again.

Anyway...... what has been happening on the sewing front .............. a quick round up on the WIP's

Scandinavian Christmas - Need to purchase the backing fabric and finish it off.
Once Upon a Time - Whoops, I have two blocks to do on this one then back up to date.

I got to pick out the boarder fabrics for the outer boarders on this one yesterday so I have gone with pinks to make it all girlie for Miss Lily :o)

Vignette Mystery Quilt ..... Slow progress on Block 4

Farmer's Wife - Hmmm...... I need to clean off my cutting table and cut a couple more out.

Accountability Projects - 8 Christmas Place mats - I have finished off the raw edge applique of the names and have begun to quilt them.  I have purchased a Jelly Roll (arrived in the mail today .... yay) to use to make a scrappy binding so progress on this is well and truly happening.

This quilt (below) is not being cut up, it is going to have a boarder or two added down the track and finished off.

Thank you to everyone who helped me in making this decision.

Your feedback was greatly appreciated.

Scrap Busting Rainbow / Postage Stamp Quilt

I was going to use only scraps but have needed to purchase some more white as I have decided to add a wider white boarder and then finish off.  Hopefully this boarder will be on in the next day or two

My .....

now looks like this .....



Lots of  Charm Squares



Last but not least .......... I purchased this yesterday .......... and I LOVE it .........

and I have the PERFECT little boy to make the quilt for so it's on the to do list :o)

Thank you for stopping by and

Happy stitching,

Sharon



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It's ARRIVED

The fabric for my  "Dead Simple Quilt-a-long", otherwise know in our home as "Aiden's Quilt" has arrived (Yesterday)

and it looks so much better in real life!

Can't wait to start cutting it up :o)

If you missed my previous posts on this one, this bundle was inspired by my teenage sons selection of this color pallet.

More on this WIP soon.

I'm back off to do some "Farmer's Wife" sewing - we have been on a break, bit like a long distance relationship :o)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharon

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Dead Simple Quilt Along Fabrics

Aiden's Dead Simple Quilt Along Bundle - 15 Fat Quarters

Is now available for YOU!

"15 Fat quarters of Solids (Kona and Moda Crossweave) and Designer Prints to work with Lily's Quilts Dead Simple Quilt Along. Sharon's son Aiden picked a "Berry Blues" palette and we created this bundle for him. We've become quite taken with it so we're offering it to you."

The girls over at SewFreshFabrics have one available in their Etsy store HERE and they have named if after my son!  I have not seem him smile over fabric before but the process of making this quilt and having a bundle named after him is, thank you girls as we need all the smiles we can get here at the moment.

Enjoy your creativity,

Sharon



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Dead Simple Quilt A Long

Pallet Fabrics Chosen

Huge thanks go out to Peg and Becca from Sew Fresh Fabrics.

I emailed them the color pallet that my son chose for his quilt and look what they have put together for him,

a CUSTOM BUNDLE

and Best of all ....... HE LOVES IT!

(well he is not sold on the dark blue with the starfish type print but I got the girls to leave it in, it might be an addition to my stash ..... he he he)

There was no way I was going to get this child (a teenager) into a Quilt shop.

They have made my day. Now I just need to patiently wait for its arrival from the US :o)

Thank you girls.

Sharon

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