Purple Pillowness !!

I was super excited to find out at the beginning of the year that the Pantone Colour of the Year was "Radiant Orchid". After having just finished my purple King Bed Churn Dash quilt I couldn't have been more proud.

Having some left over fabric from the quilt I decided to make a beautiful quilted pillow inspired by the 2014 Pantone Quilt Challenge.

I decided I wanted something fresh and went about designing my own block - I'm hoping to share a pattern for this one soon.

Combining HST's with some homespun white this lovely design just spoke to me. I'm really happy with the result and can't wait to make a full sized quilt with this block.

I quilted using straight line quilting a quarter of an inch each side of the seam with my walking foot and backed with a crisp white homespun and finished it off with an envelope enclosure.

The finished pillow measures 16" square.

Till next time, happy sewing....

A Busy time

It's been very busy at Jack's Room at the moment with orders flooding in over the month of January. My appliqued pillow range is proving very popular and is a fun quick way for me to use up my existing children's fabric stash.

I'm also continuing to work on my black and white double bed custom made quilt and am putting together a barbie princess single bed quilt for a little girl using this beautiful fabric panel.

Last but not least more playmats are on order and I just love this super cute pirates playmat that I just recently completed.

 

 

Appliqued cushions

It's been really busy at Jack's Room for the past few weeks with lots of custom orders coming in. With 2 kids at home it's been so difficult to find the time to shop for fabric and sew and not to mention blog !!

This week I have been making appliqued name cushions and having so much fun. They are a generous size at 46cm square (or 18"). I used heat and bond to iron on the letters then machine appliqued them using a straight stitch. I finally backed them with super soft minky with an envelope finish. They turned out better than I expected.

I'm just putting together two in some super cool surfer fabric for two older boys. I love that pillows like this really have no age limit.

I've also just finished putting together two playmats one a custom order (stars and stripes) and the other just because I loved the fabrics - particularly chevron. It seems my customers love chevron too as I have just ordered some grey and pink chevron and dots to make up a patchwork playmat in the coming weeks.

With all those orders I've still managed to sew another two rows on my black and white quilt too. I always have lots of projects going at one time it is often a mad house but I love to be busy.

How many projects are you working on at once??

Robot Cot Quilt

My little man's room is set up in a robot theme so I thought I should really make something for him rather than always for everyone else. In saying that he is now 4 months old and still in his bassinette in my room but no matter I often pull the quilt out of the cot and use it as a play mat and it is big enough that both my boys lie on it together!

I wanted something quick and easy so ended up buying a piece of robot fabric and just adding a simple grey border.

So here is Matthew's robot quilt. It was slightly larger than the standard WOF so I added a pieced back with the left over off cuts.

I'm not too keen on wide backing fabrics as in my opinion they tend to be a little boring so I often now piece the backs with some matching backing fabric and left over fabrics from my quilt tops. It also ties the front and back of the quilt together nicely.

I think he likes it !!

And being me I also made a matching blanket, pillow and bunting and hey presto a new nursery set!!