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Little owls lap quilt
After scratching my head over what to get my mum for her birthday, I decided I would make her a little day quilt for those afternoon naps she has in her chair, she says she only has then due to boredom – nothing to do with her age of course!
If only, I had thought to do it sooner though, with just over a week until her birthday, I really didn’t know if I would finish it in time??? So, decision made, I set off like the clappers. rummaging for a suitable centre for my simple patchwork squares. Aha! then I remembered, the half yard of little owl fabric! Hmmmmm!…now, where did I put it though…..? I looked at my stack of fabric boxes which are sorted by colour….but the little owls had many colours, so….which colour did I file them under??? (Mental note!- Get another box for things like this!!!) Again, I looked at the boxes stacked two deep floor to ceiling…and sighed…as I started pulling them down one by one for the search of the little folded piece of fabric! After much box rifling, and rebuilding the stack behind me, I eventually found it….in the purple box!-third to last!! -Aaaargh!!! Now, I had to re-stack them all back again in their rightful place – but, not before collecting coordinating fabrics for the rest of the quilt.
As ever, no pattern involved, just a matter of a ‘go for it’ approach, which I seem to have with all the quilts I have made so far. After cutting the little owl squares, I got the matching material which coordinated with the different colours on the owls and set about slicing and dicing, then, systematically built the tiny owl squares into larger ones, after connecting the pink border strips, it was ready for hand quilting. The last thing to do was to add the polka dot turquoise binding. “Et voilà !” Finished a day before I needed to be as well! I was pretty please with my eight days work – another unique crafty creation!
And, Yay! My mum loved her surprise Birthday present – I have been informed it has had a nap test too! 🙂
Adorable, and a treasure to behold, I’m in awe, lucky mum 🙂
Thank you so much 🙂 I’m just waiting for my finger tips to grow back now after all the quilting! But, it was worth it to see how happy she was with her surprise 🙂
I love your work so much! Your talent and creativity are always so amazing and refreshing. That is the most adorable lap quilt ever and to have made it in only 8 days! That’s very impressive. And how wonderful it is that your Mom loved it – you must be very happy about that. 🙂
Thank you so much for your kind words Jackie. I was thrilled to bits that she liked it so much, and she loved the colour combinations too, which was a relief 🙂
You did all this in just over a week, you are amazing! Such a beautiful personal gift for your mum, it does look very nap worthy 🙂
Thank you so much Jennifer. My mum loves it and even wonders how she had naps without it now! 🙂 Watch out for more posts on my new quilts coming soon!
I love owls. I love quilts. The fact that you managed to rustle this up in just over a week is admirable beyond words Caren!!! I love your beautiful work. Thank you for your beautiful inspirations. What a special birthday gift for your Mum! xo Sharon
Sharon, It’s so nice to have you back in my blogging life once more and thank you so much for your lovely comments!! It is very true that I can get a lap quilt done in such short times now but only with simpler designs as with this one. My mum has had lots of use out of her lovingly made gift, and, I’m so happy to know I have made something so useful for her, I hope she will for a very long time to come too!
Take good care of yourself Sharon, and also, many thanks for taking the time to look at some of my other little creations
🙂 !