Happy Birthday Tom

My little baby is 27 today!!!! - hope he's having a good time and not working too hard!!

Here is a little project I have been planning for 2 years.....

Where?

Here!  Saw this sign in Atlanta (March 2011) and it just cried out to be quilted!

Work in progress.....

...... here are the photos of my latest project......

Tinks performing her ablutions on the fabric pressed and ready to cut

Patterned squares cut to 3-7/8 inches

Grey (gray for our US viewers!!) squares already cut - drawn guide lines

Layered up -  one patterned and one grey - ready to chain piece

All sewn

Cut in half - all this took from 1.30 to 10.30pm - a good sewing sunday

A rather scary book.....

......Word Play Quilts by Tonya Ricucci.....

I have had this book for several months and after reading it and looking at the lovely quilt photos in the book I decided it was too scary to even attempt.

Well, yesterday at Yorkshire Modern Quilt Guild sit and sew day - I took the book, and some fabric, my rotary cutter and sewing machine and......

I started with the T and just went for it.....

Several letters later.....

Guess who I am making the quilt for?

H and I were making a little project that H found in her quilting magazine and it is very cute!  l took mine to show and tell at YMGQ yesterday....

Again I used the mock piped binding.

Quilted

Closeup of quilting

H hasn't finished her foxy yet!

My friend's son made this 10 years ago for my exhibition - I finally returned it to her on Friday!

Thank you for the comment regarding the subscription to Modern Quilting Mag - will certainly follow that up.  More details later.....