February's makes

I started the month with a quilt finish. This is the "square in a square" block which is one of my favourites to make. The centre squares of each block are 4½" squares and each finished block in the quilt measures 9½" which means it came together quite quickly.

For the backing, I joined 2 navy starry fleeces together which makes the quilt lovely and soft and cosy.

As it was coming up to Emily's 9th birthday (!!) and there would be a box winging its way to Canada, I thought I'd better get my act together and sew the mini quilts which the girls had drawn when we were visiting last July. This is Emily's drawing:

I added another row to the top and bottom to make it a square and then made it up using 2½" squares. OMG, I LOVE it!

I wrote a simple label on the back using a laundry marker.

Isla's drawing was slightly different. It started off (in the centre) as a trip around the world but I think she got bored at the idea of colouring all the squares and deviated from that plan.

I used strips instead of lots of tiny square - I would have had to use 1½" squares to get it to be the right size and that was just not going to happen. OMG, I LOVE this one too!

And the label on Isla's.

The girls have the quilts now and they love them too. Yay! There was talk that they might do some more designing. Bring it on!