Baby Quilt and a New Label Design

Hello

I think that this is my 10th baby quilt but starting to loose count.

The fabric is from Makower which I bought from Leven Crafts in Guisborough.  I had an appointment at the Guisborough Hospital and at first, I was peeved to have to travel 3 times further than my normal appointment at Northallerton.  Until my sister pointed out that there was a fabric shop we could visit.  So we made an outing of it, browsing the lovely fabric, then in the bistro opposite for morning  coffee with teacakes.  The extra bonus was there was no waiting time at the hospital I was seen as soon as we set foot through the door, yeah.

I didn't want to cut the farm animal fabric up too much so not to chop the animals in half used 6.5 inch squares, any smaller would have meant no whole piggies.

Dani's baby is due in March, she lives on a farm, the fabric design seemed to fit.

Instead of my normal heart shaped quilt label

I went off piste, using a Xmas tree ginger bread decoration as inspiration.

I just loved the shape of this little birdie, at Xmas I made a hanging for my front door but that got packed away with the decorations, I missed it so made another door hanging.  Unfortunately, my cottage interior is a little dark today so couldn't get usable photo of it hanging on the door.

As its snowing and being horrid today, I am catching up on my unfinished projects.  The quilt below breaks all my records.  It was hand pieced in the early 80's for my first house, it was a kit for a floor cushion which never actually became a cushion.  I used to use it as a table cloth for a little while, then it got put away in a cupboard when I moved into this house, and there it stayed until late last year.  I couldn't bring myself to chuck it out so made it up into a quilt for the sofa adding a border to front and back to make it a larger.  Luckily, I had some vintage unused quilting fabric from the 80s that Anita gave me which contrasts nicely.  The prints of the 80s and 90s were so ditsy, I still prefer them to today's fabrics.  Today's job was to sew the label on, its about 33/34 years start to finish!  Oh dear, better late than never

Sharon x