2D Zoo I is finally finished. After the amount of piecing involved with 2D Zoo II I was a bit sick of looking at the fabric so this one sat fully pieced and pinned to the batting on Elliot's desk for a while. Since its such a minimalist design I thought the meandering stipple might be too much and decided to do some irregularly spaced straight lines instead. I really like how that worked out and will definitely do it again.
No pillowcase because I didn't have enough fabric left of the zoo print or stripe to make one. Its priced accordingly and is on sale via the
Sakurako FB page.
I definitely won't be doing a meandering stipple on a big quilt ever again - I broke my walking foot somehow when I put it on the machine to do Oliver's single bed quilt so didn't have much other choice but the stipple it and it was such a pain. My little machine isn't built to do it on something so big. Its done now though, it just needs binding then it'll be another thing off the UFO list.
I also finished my labour dress from Oliver finally, thank God that's done (almost 4 years later) and out of my cupboard where it was in pieces.
Other than clearing up UFOs I'm also trying to use up/get rid of random fabric. I'll have some ruffled lightweight scarves for sale in the
Kat & Bee Ozhandmade store shortly made out of chiffon, organza and silk. I've got some PJ/lounge pants cut out of the leftover nappy flannel for the boys and some fabric dry to dip-dye them in for an ombre effect. Once I've cleared off those two projects I have a number of other quilts in the planning stages, in no particular order:
1. Cogsmo x 2 - Robots, rockets, and cogs (one for Sakurako, one for Felicity's baby)
2. Summer Picnic x 2 - ladybeetles and gingham, red/green/pink (one for Sakurako, one for Leanne's baby)
3. Something for Stephanie's baby (no idea what)
4. Sugar & Spice cot quilt - red/aqua/pink, flowers, dots, paisley, argyle
5. Peter Pan Kokka pram quilt - red/navy/cream, Peter Pan
6. Happier pram quilt - pink/green, trees and birds
7. Safari Tots unisex cot quilt - yellow, brown, blue, green, safari animals
8. 2D Zoo single bed strip quilt (last of this fabric!)
9. Grey & yellow single bed square/rectangle quilt
10. Grey & yellow cot strip quilt
11. Joel Dewberry Modern Meadow quilt for our bed
I'm itching to start them but need to finish the other things first and clear out some old fabric I'm never going to use which is taking up room.
In other news, I'm the guest blogger at
The Sewing Sisterhood each Wednesday, managing the Photo Challenge. I'll probably also contribute some other posts during the year, not sure what yet.
Anyway, time to wind up, Oliver is bugging me for my (Andrew's) laptop so he can do Reading Eggs. He's obsessed with it at the moment.