Since my return.....

Since my return home from the quilt retreat in the French Alps, I have been very busy.  Firstly, catching up with household chores but, also busy in my sewing room too.
  

When my youngest daughter last visited us here in Switzerland, she asked if she could choose some fabrics to make a baby quilt for her boyfriend's sister who is expecting a baby boy.  As my daughter is new to sewing/quilting, I helped her get used to the sewing machine and helped with the cutting, etc.  She then pieced the baby quilt into a quilt top.

There are some fused appliqué shapes on the quilt which she wasn't yet confident to finish the edges of, so I helped her with that too and, as she then headed back to work in the UK, she left the quilt with me to add some quilting. 

I have now finished the quilting and I also added the binding, so the quilt is finished and ready to be given.  I think it will make a lovely gift.

I have also been playing with sketching ideas how to use the feathered star block that I made while I was away.  I want to make it the centre of a medallion quilt and, so far, I am thinking of adding a flying geese border, using the same lilac fabric that I used for the 'feathers' in the original block. I have drawn this out to see how it looks.

The colours I have used are not an exact match but it gives you an idea.  I think I will add the borders one at a time and then decide what to add next once each border is completed until I get to a size that I am happy with.  So far, I like how this is looking, so that is my next project this week.

I have also received another embroidery template in the series designed by Anne Brooke of H-anne-Made which I ordered before I went away and, I am really looking forward to getting started on that so that I can add it to the others I have finished.

Hope you are all enjoying lots of creative projects.... until next time! 😊