Jennie's Threads

It's #ridiculouslylongfinishalonglist time again! Who will have more, me or @Archiewonderdog ? 1. Superhero doll for my niece - following the success of the dolls I made for Mia and Jess I bought a panel to make one for my neice. 2. Superhero doll for my husband's cousin's son... and the panel comes with two dolls - a girl and a boy superhero. Even boys are allowed dolls! Though his father may not agree! 3. Fancy Forest baby quilt - another one! This is for good friend's whose baby arrived over the summer, and this is such a great pattern that I'm doing it again! I've cut out all the fabrics since I took this photo and I've got a weekend away coming up and I am going to be doing nothing but block, blocks, Blocks! 4. Speaking of that weekend, we're planning a secret swap - we're each making a zippy pouch. Mine's nearly there....but this is all I can show you for the moment! 5. Allie Owl baby quilt - getting the most out of th...

Well that was a pretty efficient quarter! I started out with 34 items on my #ridiculouslylongfinishalonglist and I have finished 14! Here's my customary last minute finish! This post is linking up for the second of the two Garland City quilts I shared in the last post! Finished at lunch time today! And here are the other finishes from the last 3 months: Long Time Gone Toby's Foxes Alba's Stars Mixed Up City #Snailday Far Beyond the Edge of the World there lived Flamingos (Fussy Cut Sampler) Coral Queen of the Sea (mermaid doll) Little Red Riding Hood (doll) #1yearofstitches hoop Fox Cushion Pineapple Cushion Steph's Travel Pouch And the other Garland City Quilt !

Earlier this year, @Gnomeangel hosted another round of #100days100blocks - 100 blocks in Tula Pink's City Sampler block in 100 days. And last Christmas I'd collected together a bundle of Garland fabrics from Cotton and Steel. A match made in heaven! Half way through the quilt along I decided that rather than make one large quilt - we already have quite a few Christmas quilts - I would make two smaller quilts and give them to the girls at the start of advent. We do advent books, where each day the girls unwrap one Christmas-themed book from under the tree. My romanticized vision is that we can snuggle up with the advent quilts and read the advent books! Obviously that's unlikely with two toddlers.... but a girl can dream. Each quilt is 43" x 57" and made up of 48 blocks. I sashed those blocks with Kona pepper and swore lots - I hate sashing. The backing is an Asda duvet cover, and when I realised it wasn't big enough to back both quilts I swore so...