‘Skewed’ design super soft flannel quilt

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Artistic moment, Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Crafting creations, Crafty creations, Creative crafting, Fun with fabrics, Lap qult, Patchwork and hand quilting, Quirky Skewed squares designer quilt, Soft flannel quilt

…look what happens when you find a couple of fabrics at the bottom of your stash….over the course of a week or so, they turn into a lovingly handmade and hand quilted throw blanket

Cosy up in this colourful, cuddly, flannel blanket, perfect for those cool Spring and Summer evenings. This 57 x 37 inch super soft unique quilt is perfect to brighten any corner or space 🙂

some small leftover pieces of soft cosy flannel…all look quite ‘innocent’…until…….

….you put them together in a quirky skewed design WOW Colourful or what?!

…of course, as is ever the case when trying to use up fabrics…I ended up having to buy more (…such a shame LOL  😀  ) once I had made my mind up to use the square panels for a cosy cuddly quilt. Luck was definitely shining down on me as I visited the fabric shop!! Fortunately, I managed to source a shadowed cream flannel for the reverse, a ‘flocked’ burgundy red to tie in with the red check in the skew panels and finally a brown and black ‘dogtooth’ flannel for the border and binding. A super soft cotton wadding (as shown here lying under the quilt) and plenty of tiny hand quilted stitches turned those remnants into a stunning ‘Skew Whiffy’ Quilt/ Throw Blanket

A little close up of the hand quilting over the red flocked squares after its final wash, dry and iron session, ready now to be packed for shipping 😉

A One Off!!…ready for a new loving home!

Tablemats, tablemats and…more tablemats

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Artist and crafter, Christmas table mats, Patchwork and hand quilting

If you have wondering where most of my time has been spent???? Then I shall enlighten you…OMGoodness …Tablesets have been an absolute must this year apparently!!! I did a little set for my Etsy shop, which were snapped up, then, the purchaser kindly commissioned a few more!! 🙂 …Then, a 24 piece set was made, as pictured, for my Mother and Father-in law for their Christmas present – even a set of twelve mats and coasters may not be enough for the growing family….. ;-/ My time has been so taken up, I even forgot to edit the picture from the surrounding chaos !!

A few mats more…. commissioned for extra guests!

If that wasn’t enough…then my daughter decided it would be ‘lovely’ to have a set of sixteen ready in time for her Wedding Dinner at her flat after the Ceremony….okay I can accept a few more grey hairs for that, no problem! So, with a ”skewed theme” to match her décor, below are a good few more days of my life accounted for (please bear in mind all the hand quilting for these too)…………. 😉

You know what this means though…I’m about to become a Mother-in-Law ;-/

Large Christmas Stocking – Crazy patchwork style

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Artist and crafter, Artistic moment, Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Christmas patchwork, Christmas Stocking, Colourful, Cotton fabrics, Crafty creations, Crazy Patchwork Stocking, Creative crafting, Fun with fabrics, Patchwork and hand quilting, Seasonal decorations

Finished at last! After much searching…….eventually, I found my WIP, hidden – where else of course….in a giant box of buttons!!!!? This was the piece I was working on before I turned into a ‘cleaning monster’ (cleaning also included hiding carefully placing last minute projects out of sight – to achieve an apparently craft free household) due, to visiting In Laws to be!
A great weekend was had by all, even the weather played nicely allowing our guests to enjoy our garden too 🙂
Anyway, back to the above, I thought I had better commence with a few little seasonal things for my Etsy shop, being that, in crafting terms, Christmas is ‘just around the corner’. Taking some of my Christmas fabric offcuts, I decided to crate a crazy patchwork, luxury padded and hand quilted Stocking hand bound in coordinating cotton fabric with a hand twisted bow detail to finish. Large enough to stuff with lots of little gifts for some lucky person…As long as they’ve been good all year – of course??! 😉

Take a bag of new, mixed fabric offcuts, set aside some ‘crazy’ patchwork time, trim to required shape, quilt front and back, add binding and a hand twisted bow…….et voilà…A Christmas Stocking 😀

Beautiful Minimalistic Patchwork

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A perfect gift, abstract, Artist and crafter, Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Coordinated cotton fabrics, Cotton fabric, Cotton fabrics, Crafty creations, Creative crafting, Fun with fabrics, Hand quilted creations, Original, Patchwork and hand quilting, Patchwork creations, Patchwork throw blanket, Pin wheel lap quilt, Red and black cotton fabric quilt, Simple beautiful patchwork designs, Triangular patterned handmade quilt

Pin-wheel lap quilt
A strikingly simplistic, but altogether beautiful, simple piece of fabric art! Chose a couple of coordinating fabrics, make a few squares, chop them up, and sew back together…add lots of hand quilting….and… a sight to behold! This worked even better than I had imagined 😉

Enjoying it’s final wash, and blowing in the Spring breeze, my little make of the week! A whopping 13 hours a day for seven days…Yep, that’s 91 hours of loving labour!!!!!! … has gone into producing this stunning little lap quilt – SO, I would say the price is a steal in labour costs alone!!! Trying to show, that patchwork doesn’t have to involve thousands of colours and stupendous patterns to be beautiful 🙂 !

Pin-wheel fabrics close up!
Just two fabrics have been chosen to complete this little masterpiece….well actually, three if you want to include the cream cotton backing! It is one hundred percent cotton through and through, as it had a pure cotton wadding layer too, which means it can be ironed after washing – perfect!!

…..Did I mention…it has ALL BEEN HAND QUILTED TOO!!! 😀

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