Its finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have called it "Pieces Of Christmas"



Time and time again, I read about mothers who can whip up a quilt in a matter of days. I am not this mother!...



They say how understanding their children are, for allowing them to take the time to quilt....I do not have their children....



This quilt has taken me a couple of months (at least) to complete. Apart from my very wonderful but very demanding children wanting me all to themselves I had to order a lot of the fabrics from the U.S as I just couldnt find them in this country.



I also had to wait for around 3 weeks for samples to arrive and backing fabric as the post here has been terrible...a word of advice, send EVERYTHING recorded delivery at this time of year. My receipients have faced a 3 week delay.:-( Im really hoping my secret santa has received their package as I've not heard anything on their blog, I hope they will post soon as this will help put my mind at rest.

Back to the quilt..

I decided to hand write the quilt label rather then printing it as I think it adds more of a personal touch. I wanted to use linen in this quilt as I've not worked with it before and I really think it breaks up the business of the prints which can otherwise look a bit heavy on the eye.

I would love some advice of accurate straight line quilting, I did mine using a disappearing ink pen but I still found it rather hard, I wonder if using a quilt guide would have been helpful?!

Looking forward to hearing your comments as always.

x

An update...

Well, my quilt is almost done!, I've just got the binding left to do so I should be able to post some pics up some time next week.

Im proud to say that my secret Santa parcel has been sent (I hope my partner received it ok!, I havnt received anything yet but post has been slow) All my gifts are bought and wrapped and now its just a waiting game. There is a reason why I'm a bit more organised this year...we are having major kitchen renovations. We are turning our kichen/dining room into a kitchen diner and the builders took out the wall in between what was the two rooms, last week.

Out living room now feels like a bedsit as all of our kitchen utensils, microwave, fridge frezzer e.c.t are in the one room. I've had a 5 day headache from all the fumes from the plastering, and the actual kitchen gets fitted on Tuesday, so I am very exited!

We have gone for white gloss handless kitchen cupboards and because this drank up a lot of our budget we decided not to bother with granite worktops and stick to laminate which we can change at a later date if we decide we dont like it.

Im really nervous about the whole project, mainly because we have invested a lot in this and Im not very good at picturing how it would look in my head.

All of this means I cant put the tree up on the 1st of December which is when I would normally do it because we just dont have the room :-(. I have, however bought a little tree for my daughters room so I will have to make some more decorations for it and put that up instead.

I've seen some wonderful Christmas makes from you all recently, keep up the good work its all very inspiring. xx