Saturday 8 July 2017

Starting a new quilt

Not much time for sewing this week as we are half way through the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.  I am a tennis fan, have been for pretty much 60 years! Wimbledon is my favourite although I also follow the Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne.

However, whilst I've been watching Wimbledon on TV I have been knitting more baby cardigans and for the past couple of days I have also sorted out fabrics for a baby quilt for Amy's baby.

Amy is a cat lover and has two cats so I thought these cute cat fabrics would be ideal.  I don't know whether the baby will be a boy or girl so thought these colours would work either way.


These will be used to frame each cat picture to make blocks.

 
I will use these cat fabrics for alternate blocks.
 
 
 
All fabrics are from stash. 
 
In between matches and changeovers yesterday I cut and trimmed the cat pictures:
 
 
I have more brown and paler cream ones that I can cut if I need more.
 
Today I cut a few 1.5" strips to use for framing the pictures and sewed up five of them.
 
 
 
Hope to make a few more tomorrow.  The blocks finish at 5.5" after trimming so I think I'll do a 7 x 9 layout.
However, I am making up the quilt as I go along so that might change.
 

3 comments:

  1. That will be a nice bright, fun quilt. Love the colours.

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  2. What a fun cat lovers quilt! Its always great to know a friends interests and be able to incorporate it in a quilt. Watching tennis goes well with knitting.

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  3. love what you are doing with the cat fabric like you have quite few some the same as yours so this has given me an idea. A tennis fan too never been to Wimbledon but is get to the Australian open in 2002

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