#cot quilt

The Homestead and the Forest Quilt by May & Jane Morris, daughter & wife respectively of William Morris 

It was my last day at work today before the start of my maternity leave! Or rather, I’ve saved up a bunch of annual leave and am taking that first and then will officially start maternity leave the week before I’m due.

Everyone was very kind and we were given some lovely cards and gift cards for Amazon and Next-which will be certainly come in handy in the next few months!

I am exploring ways of making a quilt -as-you-go. I make my quilts by hand and so am always looking at different ways to make a quilt. 

Recently a friend announced that she was having a “new pirate” to join her crew. So the challenge was to make a pirate quilt and to quilt it as I went. I think the most difficult part was actually to find the fabric to use.

I wanted to make the quilt reversable so that the design was the same on both sides but with a different feature fabric. 

Here’s what it looks like on one side

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And here’s the other side.

I’ve been pretty preoccupied these past few months. No surprise that it has taken me this long to post this. I learned that I was going to be an aunt, and I decided to fly to Malaysia to visit my sister. Very interesting times at the moment and it would be even more interesting in the near future! Did so much baby clothes shopping! There are so much out there and they are so cute!! For now, let…