Five Tiny Baby Quilts

I've finally finished some incubator quilts.  They've only been a year or so in the making.  But now they're all pieced, sandwiched, quilted, bound and ready to go.  Yay.  Now I just hope they're suitable!

We have the star design and the pirates which you've already seen partially completed.

Then we have pink and lilac fairies.  It's really quite girly.

Frogs.

And my personal favourite (i.e. the brightest) the insects.

I did have a bit of a whoopsie when cutting the fabric for this one.  The orange background was going to be spotty, but I managed to cut the strips too small.  I'm not quite sure what it says about my fabric stash that I had another bright orange fabric that I could substitute.

I'm proud of them now they're finished, but I didn't see much of the weekend.  I was either at work or sewing.  Mainly by hand.  My machine is capable of quilting, but I've never had time to practice!  One day maybe.  I didn't draw blood too many times either.  Woo hoo.  I'm afraid you will probably be treated to many more pictures of quilts over the coming months.  I think I'm up to making three for later in the year.

The nieces haven't been neglected either.  I mean they have been sewing-wise but they now have their first loom band princesses.

Made using videos by Izzalicious Designs we have Rapunzel from Tangled and Elsa from Frozen.  The girls were thrilled.  They're now debating as to who to get next.  Charlotte's fancying Aurora, but Katie can't decide between Ariel (with a tail, no surprises there!) and Rapunzel.  I think she liked the long hair of Rapunzel.

My next project is a somewhat scary one.  I don't mean it's Halloween themed or anything.  Although come to think of it I'll probably be doing a couple of those as well.  If anyone creates a machine in the next few months that's capable of making time, please let me know.  I'd be most grateful!  Anyway, I digress.  I've been asked to make a christening dress (definitely more a dress than gown).  Remember the baby blocks I made?  Well, Libby is going to be christened in August and her Mam asked me if I'd make her outfit.  The scary part is I'm going to be using Libby's Mam's wedding dress!  I'm really flattered I've been asked, but I'm very nervous.  There is a train on the dress, so the idea is to remove that and use it to make the bairn's dress.  Wish me luck!  I feel lots of deep calming breaths coming on.  It generally takes me ages to get up the nerve to cut into any fabric.  On the plus side, the christening is in August, so I haven't got long to procrastinate!

Also in August, my Auntie Linda is getting married.  And, you've guessed it, I'm going to be making a dress for myself.    I've found a dress on Modcloth that I think I'm using as inspiration.

How pretty is that?!  I'm not sure what colour to do, but I think I want something quite pale as I'm wearing nude colour shoes.  That's right, I have shoes, but no outfit.  Why not do things backwards?

So about that time creation machine...