Colorful Strips!

I'm not sewing fast enough and that causes delay in posting new things on the blog.

Thus, i thought I'll just share the working progress instead... :) to replace baby blue, I decided to make another baby quilt using the balance of the "It's a Hoot" charm pack (previously purchased from Zara @ A Fabric Case) and this is what it produced :)

Then i got extra hardworking last night and completed 9 squares of this...

Now, I have to piece them together... add some borders here and there and hope the top will be done over the weekend... that leaves me 1 week to finish quilting... hmmm, such a heavy challenge!

p/s: Being an amateur in quilting, I found my biggest challenge is in getting some nice quilting fabrics like Moda's Charm Packs and etc. Thus, I made a "huge" investment and bought them direct from the States. I'll be putting some of them up for sale on my blog soon to help other beginners like me start of on quilting :)

Baby Blue - failure!

I guess due to the extend of the delay, many would have guessed something was not right! Well, to those who did, you got that right!

Baby Blue has been my greatest challenge since I started quilting (not that I have done many)... and I must say, I'm pretty embarrassed at the output...

It was such a challenge and I had to undo the stitches (done on all 3 pieces) a few times and still could not get it right :(

The patchwork was good but somehow quilting was tough... to make things worst, the backing cloth (printed felt) that I purchased was too small and so I had to add cloth at the back, making all the alignment wrong :(

And did I mention how difficult it is to undo stitches on a felt? Boy, that's another challenge!

This Baby Blue was meant for a friends baby, due in May, but I'm so embarrassed at  it that I've decided to make another project for  him... I was so effected by it that I started preparing the quilt last night itself! Baby's due in May and so I really have to hurry!
But the sewing will have to wait as I'm off to Kuching tomorrow, to a remote Aborigine Village to offer some social service... so, till then... adios....