Some dear friends recently had a gorgous baby so what a perfect excuse to make a quilt! I’ve never made one before so was a bit clueless… I ordered some gorgeous fabric last week fromThisandThatFromJapan and was stunned when it arrived in just 3 days – it can take longer than that for things to arrive from the other side of Oxford! Wow. She has so much awesome cute fabric it was difficult to narrow it down, but I eventually picked out some colourful elephants since Oli is half Thai, and some contrasting aqua polka dots. For the back of the quilt I chose some cute blue flowers with red dots, and I got the wool batting and some plain brown fabric for the binding from Masons in Abingdon.
The pattern I used was a smaller version of the easy lap quilt pattern from Amy Karol’s Bend The Rules Sewing. I used squares instead of strips and a double layer of batting to make it extra cozy!
Elephant fabric ready to be cut into squares
Squares all cut out and ready to pin
Luckily I had some help!
Quilting
Embroidered label (hopefully his Thai name is legible!)
It was such fun to make this quilt and I can’t wait to pass it on to my friends tomorrow, hope they like it! I’d love to make a full-size quilt one day but after doing this I have no idea how people manage it – it would have to be at least 4 times the size of this one – how on earth do you get all those layers through the machine?! Answers below please!
Oh wow it looks great! I have only ever made small quilts too. I have no idea how people wrestle with the big ones
Wow! Kate I’m really impressed that you just whipped this up in a weekend. I haven’t really made anything resembling a real quilt before and I’m kind of scared of it to be honest. Lovely fabric too – I’m sure your friends will love it.
Monda
x
Thanks
Vanessa if I can do a quilt then you definitely can, you’re the queen of sewing cute things!!
That looks soooo well! I love the fabric
Awww, you and Girl with the Curl are such great quilters! Makes me jealous 
Would love to sit down and make my own.
That’s amazing! I love that you can make quilts – please teach me! x
it’s so cute, but is it machine washable? – you know it will get sicked on at the very least!
Thanks everyone for lovely comments!
yup, I washed it before the handover.. 100% cotton so it’s fine
“at the very least” – hmmmmm I don’t want to think of anything else getting on it!! nooooo!!