Thursday 10 January 2013

Obi and Eli

Hi everyone! It's about time I showed you the finished quilts I made for my friends' twins Obadiah and Elijah. For those of you popping over from Finish It Up Friday or TGIFF (hi!) who haven't seen these quilts before, a group of friends joined me to make lots of little embroidered squares which I then turned into quilts :)

In my last post I told you about my nightmare quilting episodes. Thankfully after that, things were pretty straight forward. The only issue was timing - due to my imminent house move, I had to do all the hand-sewing on one of the quilts in one day! I know, I know, some people make an entire baby quilt in a weekend, but for me, 4 metres of hand-sewing in a day was an achievement.

So, here we go, finished pics :)

 The two quilts!

And the backs :)

 This one for Obi...

... and this one for Eli! Taken before the epic hand-sewing session

With my friends and I having spent so long on the embroideries, I hope you'll let me induldge in a few close-ups :)
 
Mum is musical, so this one's quite appropriate :)

Cute elephant by my friend Katie, and I loved sewing the rainbow!

Rocket and dinosaur, by Faye and Jenny, two of my faves :)

Edmund, Fab, pencil and bean

And an explosion, cos boys like those, right?

These quilts were lots of fun to make, and it was really great to get some friends involved! Now I just need to convince them that they want to learn to baste so I can give up on that part...

Anyway, happy Friday everyone!

All wrapped up and ready to give :)

13 comments:

  1. These quilts are gorgeous!!!! Well done you :) x

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  2. I love the good old Bible names! Cute quilts

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  3. Love how you made the quilts so similar but with little tweaks to be different!

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  4. Great quilts, Nd the embroidery work is beautiful!

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  5. Super cute little quilts! I love the embroidery!

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  6. The embroidery is delicious! Nice job!

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  7. These are adorable! Love that embroidery!

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  8. Those are beautiful. I really love the colors and your needle handiwork. Just lovely! Good job!

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  9. They are both just so gorgeous!

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  10. fantastic quilts! I love the explosion :)

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  11. The blocks look very small; could you find embroidery hoops small enough? Adorable quilts.

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  12. Great work! Very cool to have got some friends to help with the stitching, makes the quilts such a personal and thoughtful gift. I love the colours too!

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  13. So cute emma! I'm sure they'll love them :)

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