Made this lovely little upcycled baby quilt for my dear friend Karen B. in the Netherlands, as she and her partner are set to welcome their first child into the world. I started with a simple square-block design, and then pierced the order with some colorful strips of chaos, fitting for the life-altering-ness of a baby. I like the stripey border, which I made a little wider on the top and bottom to help make it a bit more of a rectangle. I quilted it simply with horizontal lines along the border between the colorful stripes, and then quilted down either side of the strips. Did a pieced backing with a panel of that beautiful egret upcycled curtain fabric I was given. And bound it all in the border fabric, which has a little bit of an offset confetti feel. I love it! Hope baby Brummel spends many a cozy nap on this quilt from Auntie Amy in Canada!
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I have two friends with birthdays over the holiday season, so I decided to make the holiday babies matching altar mats. Inspired by fractals, I used some of my batiks as a base, and then broke things up with strips and triangles from different fabrics to (hopefully) create some evocative fractal patterns. I also used some upcycled silk sari fabric for the border, and made some matching binding. I quilted both mats with loops and swirls to contrast with the angular fractal piecing design. I backed Jenn C.'s with some of my urban city scape fabric, and Katherine K.'s with some of the batik elephant fabric I have in my stash. I really enjoyed experimenting with the piecing for this project, and love how they came out in the end!
My sister Leah B. fulfilled one of her life dreams this year and got a 'real' piano for her home. And so I made her a little piano seat cover for the bench! Palate of her favourite blues, and used felt for the backing to provide a bit of light grip--- hopefully it will inspire many a tune in the coming years!
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