Thea's puzzle quilt.

It was love at first sight when I sew this quilt pattern from Amy Butler's design and I drop off all other projects to work on this one. It is so simple and yet so lovely. Picking out the colors are the best part of the process. I am currently in love with the colors of teal/mermaid and sea green so those are my starting point. Then the rest of the colors follows from my stash.

  

For the back I decided to do some improv log cabin echoing the colors used from the front of the quilt, and keep it simple but wonky.    

A little thank you gift --- aprons!

Time flies when you have little one and mine is already 4 and half. This means he's graduating from kindergarten at the end of the year and going to prep at a new primary school. This year also mark the end of childcare services, which I absolutely love all the carers in the center. I am very grateful that we found a childcare center where I can feel happy to leave my kids and knowing he's in a good care.

So I have been thinking about making something for the kinder teachers and the carers at the center and   aprons are perfect! For the kinder teachers I have made water proof aprons which are perfect as it is easy to clean and wipe away paints, glues or any other crafty activities.

I have also made a cotton apron for the cook in my son's childcare, who made lots of healthy and delicious meals for the center. She is also very happy to share her recipes with all the parents, so I think apron would be most appropriate.

The pattern and instruction is from Ink & Spindle, a boutique textile studio that design really lovely prints for upholstery or even for cushions.

Monsterz baby quilt.

Recently I have been told of a great news and that is my friend is pregnant. Although the baby is expecting to arrive in October I am already eager to make baby quilts. Since we also don't know the sex of the baby I want to make quilts that are suitable for both sexes.

I use Cloud 9 Fabric - Monsterz designed by Michele Brummer-Everett. It's one of my favourite fabric line for children, and I just love the illustrations of those little cute monsters!

Quilts for Boston

Apart from Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild organizing the flag buntings (please read the previous blog entry), Boston Modern Quilt Guild are working on making quilts to help the community that was directly effected by the bombing. BMQG is asking the quilt community to give support in ways of making quilt blocks and/or fabric donations. If you are interested further information can be found here.

The deadline is 24th May, hope my blocks will get there in time!