Just in time - one finshed Pirate themed quilt

This is definitional the last quilt I finish before Christmas but not the last one this year as I still have to make a small one for my new god-daughter Anya who I will be seeing just after Christmas.

For now I wish you all a very merry Christmas and say goodbye until next week with some images of my finished "Pirates, Doges and Bones"quilt that I made for the most important little man in my world; my nephew and godson Hauke.

Hauke

The front of the quilt is made of 192  5 inch squares measuring in total about 60 x 80 inches  (2 x 1.5 m). I used fabric from my stash including the specifically purchased pirate themed fabric by Emily Taylor Pirate and Alexander Henry 'Bizness Pirate. I also added quite a few Timeless Treasure 'Dogs' and replaced the amount of sculls with cute little dogs and bones thereby a bit. After all I don't want Hauke to have nightmares.

I also kept two of the prints that have such wonderful detail as plam trees, boats and maps on them as large pieces because fussy cutting wouldn't have worked here. I also hope it adds a kind of "I spy" effect to the quilt top.

 

The back is a print wiht lots of blue stars on a cream backround from the 'Amercian Banner Rose ' collection from Moda purchased at my local Tikki quilt store (and yes Corinne you were right with the choice of fabric for the back and also with the binding !)

  

I kept the quilting simple in straight lines along the seam lines which I must confess is one of my favourite straight line quilting "patterns" - simple yet so beautiful.

 

  

I used a lovely stripy number again for the binding to give the quilt a little bit of a kick. The stripes are from the Lecien basics collections and were also bought at  Tikki. I love the black and white contrast.

 

I really really love this quilt and hope my nephew will enjoy it for many years to come. 

I wish you all lots of food, lots of help with the washing up; hopefully some breathing space in between and as few quarrels as possible (let's face it x-mas never passes without them entirely) over the festive days.

See you all after Christmas !

Pirates, Dogs and Bones

Having finished 'Lotta fly away' last week I wasted no time moving on to a new quilt project. After some contemplation I decided I'll make a quilt for my little nephew for Christmas although I already bought a book for him. That will make it two presents from me which is not something we normally do but my excuse is that he is my godson and he will get a normal single bed soon, so he needs a new quilt.

I am using my Emily Taylor Pirate,  Timeless Treasure 'Dogs', Alexander Henry 'Bizness Pirate' for this plus others from my stash.

Have a lovely Sunday
Judith

Stash Note 31

I could title this Pirates and Fruit really.
The first set of fabric is a fat quarter bundle of 'Pirates' by Emily Taylor for Riley Blake Designs. I love this collection as it is not shy with bold colours.

This fabric will be combined with other Pirate related fabric I already bought and made into a quilt for my nephew.

 There is even a good amount of black in there and look at these sculls, aren't they fantastic?

This Stash was bought at Fabricworm


And this little fruity number here is 'Fruit Punch' by Timeless Treasure and for ones I didn't buy it but won it in a giveaway over at Jennifer Ellison's. I won this exactly at the same time when I was hosting my last giveaway which I guess means that there is some sort of correlation between me winning and hosting give-aways.........