Birthday quilt projects

I have made 3 birthday quilts in the last few months, but due to lockdown I have not been able to deliver any of them yet! And just in case the intended recipients check in on the blog, I can't post any photos of the first two quilts! 

But I should be ok posting the most recent one, which hopefully I will be delivering after work tomorrow. 

On Saturday my friends daughter  turned 18. On Friday I decided to make her a quilt! I looked through some books- and my stash!- for ideas  and worked out a design. Saturday I sewed up the front and back pieces, and Sunday I pinned and quilted it. All fabrics from The Stash - I have a box of rainbow strips from the first few quilts I made, I must have cut out heaps of strips!  Even the binding was 3 lots of leftover pieces, there was just enough to go around,  with only about 30 cm left over.

Today I managed to duck outside just before the rain started, and took a couple of photos. Of course The Dog had to check it out, as you can see in some of the photos!

Comic Con can wait

 It was suggested this week that maybe we have some fun in our online team meetings/check-ins at work. So I thought I would get the ball rolling by dressing up as General Leia Organa ( The Force Awakens) for our lunch time check-in today ! I had actually made this for Comic Con months ago (it has been postponed of course!), all I had to do to finish it off was make the belt buckle last night ( craft foam, craft wire & silver paint), and watch a YouTube clip on how to do my hair ( which took about 15 minutes and a whole lot of bobby  pins!).

The boots and belt were op shop finds, as was the jacket - it was the exact shade of purple I was after and had not actually been able to find the right colour and weight of fabric anyway! From memory it was about $4, and I unpicked the sleeves to run it into the vest.

Jacket and pants - because seriously a jumpsuit is just too impractical, not to mention too cold in this weather! - are made from the same pattern as my orange Rebel Pilot outfit, and like that costume the fabric came from Super Cheap. The orange was bought when the Roxburgh Park store was closing down, and this sagey-greenish fabric was bought when the Brunswick store was closing! Pretty sure it was only a couple of dollars a metre each time ( still have heaps of the sage left too). The main differences are the wide collar on this one, no extra pockets ( although I put proper side pockets on the pants, because…pockets! 

Oh and I had my official Leia ring on, Christmas gift from my son a few years ago - so of course I had to eventually make this outfit to match the ring!