Well it's finally finished, the purple rag quilt which started off as a normal quilt in April 2009.
In September I bought some more fabric which spurred me on to actually finish it.
So three months, 100 squares and lot's of hand quilting hearts and flowers later...
here it is, sorry for all the photo's but I'm really proud of how it's turned out and I hope the person I've made it for will love it just as much as I've loved making it. As well as buying new fabric, I've also recycled two pairs of curtains and a single duvet cover.
Can you see the binding, it's all the leftover fabric stitched together. I was just going to leave the edges raggy but I think the binding looks better.
I think the back of the quilt looks better than the raggy front.
so that's my sewing all finished for christmas, anyone spotted the mistake in the quilt yet?
Josie x
I don't think it's one of the best things I've made, not as good as other bags I found on google last month....I think I'll stick to my shoulder bags instead. 
and I've had to take photo's with my mobile, not sure if you can tell but there is a pocket in the front section....
Remember the denim shoulder bag I made for myself last year, I've used up the rest of the fabric to make this bag and bought some lovely cotton fabric with a cloud design, 
which I bought as backing for a coin quilt which I cut out months ago, I bought some seaside fabrics to make that, so hopefully that will be 'finished' later this year. 
The back is the same as the front and the bag and straps are lined with a lovely pale blue soft cotton fabric and it's a good size, 19" inches x 12" inches and the straps are 30" long, perfect for summer days out. 
I've also made some more Morsbags which takes my total to 103! 
well for the last six weeks on and off I've been busy trying to get it finished and tonight after busy sewing and clipping frayed edges for three and half hours, it's finally finished! 
and this is the back of the quilt...
I hope she will like it, I'm still not sure because of the raggy edges and the bits that come off but well we will see.....I think it looks better than 
If you've been following my blog then you'll know that last month I made the rag quilt and 
this month I've finished the reversible matching cushion which has lovely floral fabrics on one side and the leaf applique on the other side. 
and I've made a padded lavender heart with the leftover leaf print fabric. 
Xmas Pressie!
As you can from this close up, I went a bit wrong on the pocket, the left side is higher up, oops!
the checked fabric is an old jacket I've recycled, it's just been hung in the wardrobe for the last ten years, it was a lovely jacket but it didn't look lovely on me, I've only worn it once when we ( me, hubby, son, mum and dad went to York Minster to celebrate the start of the year 2000, so it has special memories for me), 
This is what the leaf fabric looks like cut out into the leaf shapes, I think it looks great....
and this is as far as I've got. This is the first large quilt I've made and what I'm finding difficult because it's a rag quilt is that the seams are on the 'right' side of the fabric and the neat edges are the 'wrong' side. 
But the 'wrong' side looks just as nice as the right side. 
I thought I would have eight weeks to finish the quilt but last week someone from decent homes came round and checked the combi-boiler and central heating (which works okay and we are happy with) and he has told us we are having a radiator in the downstairs toilet and the combi-boiler will be taken out and a normal boiler put in, so that will mean a hot water tank in one of the bedrooms, we think it will be son's/ Kitt's bedroom, so that means now that we've had to find someone to look after the cats for four weeks (we've spoken to the woman who did a home-check for Millie from Cats Protection and she says she will have them - £8 a day for both cats) and we were going to put all the boxed up stuff from the kitchen and bathroom in there! The man from decent homes says that when he comes round the work usually starts within a month, so we think it will be November. Great timing, as hubby has got two weeks holiday from work, so instead of chilling out and going out, we are going to be stuck in with noise and dust and half the house in boxes for four working weeks and living off microwave meals!