Friday 17 October 2014

Elephant and Spots: a finished quilt

I've taken a bit of a detour from my recent scrappy quilts to make this elephants and spots quilt for a friend's baby boy, but as I used fabrics which I've had in my stash for about a year I feel good about not making new purchases.


I started off making ten log cabin blocks but then I felt that it was just too similar to a recent quilt so  I then added the Battenberg blocks.  This means that I will be putting those four remaining log cabin blocks into another quilt soon, and there are still a lot of the elephant fabrics left to add to them as well.


For the quilting I kept it simple - tramlines.  They're just so speedy, but look good.  The binding is a red and white houndstooth, which I think goes really well with some of the elephant red and white check ears.  It goes nicely with the red dots on the backing.  I acquired this houndstooth fabric only this week.  A friend of a friend was getting rid of some fabrics (much of it scraps) and I took a lot of it off her hands (I'm good like that!)


Now I cannot wait to give it to my friend.  I meet her little boy on Sunday and I am really excited.  I hope she likes the gift.


Thanks for visiting.

10 comments:

  1. What a fun quilt!! Congrats on a wonderful finish!

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  2. Great quilt Emmajane! Love all the elephants! :) x

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    1. Hi Christine! Thanks for stopping by again and leaving a comment.

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  3. How perfectly adorable! And playful! I can only imagine how sweet a little feller will look on/with this :)

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    1. Hi Sarah. Thanks for your comment. The baby now has his quilt and his mum and dad were really pleased.

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  4. What an effective use of your fabric. It turned out so delightful!

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    1. Hi Sue. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a kind comment.

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