Log cabin quilt: A finished quilt

I have worked like a demon to finish a quilt in three days and I am so pleased with the result.  These are not colours I usually work with; I think yellow can be tricky and yet I am in love with the yellows here and their interaction with the pink and green.  I think there is a really vibrant look to this quilt.

Log cabin is a favourite quilt pattern of mine, but I especially like it when you are not too strict about the dark and light effect.  I like to abandon the traditional to make the pattern more modern.  I'm glad that I put the different cats from Hello Petal by Aneela Hoey in the centre of each block.  I think it makes everything join together somehow.

This week I had a trip to Ikea and bought some fabric, Britten Nummer, which I have seen backing other quilts, but I am happy to join that bandwagon; it's modern and distinctive, as well as a really good price.  I think handwritten text on fabric works really well on the back because the cats on the front also have their names handwritten.  (I may have bought a few metres of this, so I have to use it up.)

I've loved working with these fabrics and am pleased with the overall result, but I am also happy to see this quilt go.  It is going on my Etsy store and is available for sale here.  Let's hope someone likes the colours and cats and makes a purchase.

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Tour de France Quilt (kind of) - A finished quilt

I am unashamedly a Yorkshire lass.  I'm originally from West Yorkshire but now live happily in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.  I speak with a Yorkshire accent and often use dialect (especially with my family).  I have lived and worked abroad on three different occasions in three different places but I don't think there is anywhere like God's Own Country and I have no intention of ever living anywhere else.

I cannot, therefore, not write about the Tour de France being in Yorkshire this weekend and passing about six miles from my house.  I watched it on the tv today and finished a quilt which I can tenuously link to the colours of this cycle race.  Tomorrow I won't be sewing or quilting because I will be up early and walking to Bradfield to get a view of this sporting spectacle.

This quilt I worked on over a week in April but then I left finishing off the binding by hand until there was a suitable time.  Today was that time.  I could justify sitting and hand sewing as I watched the peloton go up hill and down dale.  It was a coincidence that some of the colours are significant in the race (yellow, red and white).  Unfortunately the red background with white polka dots is the reverse of the King of the Mountains but I think I can turn a blind eye to this today.

The picture fabrics are Little Apples by Aneela Hoey.  I love these fabrics because they capture nostalgic images of childhood and are perfect for a baby quilt such as this.  Even the least observant will have noticed that I put the tortoise fabric on the back upside down and I had already quilted it before I noticed.  I decided that baby Isobel, who will soon receive this quilt, is not too fussed about these things and that she would cope with it.  Tomorrow, after all, I'm going to see the Tour de France in my neck of the woods so my excitement overtakes any disappointment with this quilt.  Au revoir!