Baby quilt

Baby quilts are cute, easy to make and most of all easy to quilt and improve skills.

A colleague of mine gave birth to a girl. We had to postpone (or cancel) the baby-shower. So the quilt will only be warming the new baby when this crazy period is over.

For March I had two objectives: 1) finish the quilt and 2) finish the table runner. Am happy to blog that I finished both projects.

I try to craft every day half an hour now that I don't commute - this was not yet feasible - am improving though. A few small projects to finish that are almost done .... there are some advantages to the confinement. Needless to say that my sanity is pretty intact.

Linking up with Patty's OMG for March at Elm Street Quilts

A little green dress

Everyone needs a little green dress. A colleague for mine brought me fabric from Ghana. Enough to make a dress. I went through my stack of patterns - some dating back from years (read many many years) ago. I have a hard time throwing patterns away. So in an effort to contain the piles of pattern magazines have been sorting and selecting a few times to keep only those I think I might make. All those I know for sure will not make are out ..... still many to go. It does feel good to go through the oldies and select patterns. This dress was one of them, not sure from which year. I adapted the dress by making it wide enough so I don't need a zipper.

With a small cardigan (in a matching green) I can wear it when days are a bit cooler.

Tablerunner

The tablerunner is done, like to look of it. And it is adorning the coffee table, celebrating spring with spring colours.

The set was bought as a pre-cut kit to try out. I like the pattern and will make definitely make some more. They make nice gits.

Linking my first OMG March project with Patty at Elm Street Quilts. On to finish project 2.

OMG March - two projects

This month was going to be a very busy month, and now it will just be busy. My trip to Algeria is canceled, our office canceled the meeting. We then decided to have the meeting in Republic of Congo, which is not going to happen either. All travelers from high-risk countries will be quarantined upon arrival. Well that is the official notice from the health authorities. So the meeting is postponed until ..... as all countries are potentially at risk .....

I made the table top runner as part of my February OMG. Uploading from my ipad is a skill I have not yet properly mastered, or to be precise, uploading pictures has room for improvement. So back to classic computer use.

This month my OMG for March is to finish the table runner - the beauty is basted and waiting next to my sewing machine.

Project two to finish is the baby quilt I started for a colleague, also basted and patiently waiting.

Thank you Patty of Elm Street quilts to keep us going.