Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Who do you sleep with?

Now that sounds very personal, but I am talking about quilts.  We all give our quilts names so I thought I might share with you who I am currently sleeping with.

I always have a quilt (or 2, or 3, or 4) on my bed, I tend to rotate them around.  I have quilts that I prefer in Summer and quilts I prefer in Winter.  Having said that my favourite "winter quilt" is my Liberty Diamonds quilts, however the batting in this is super fine and it really is more suitable to Summer.

On my bed currently I have a cotton blanket (just can't be bothered in dry cleaning the woollen blanket!), my Amy Meets Kaffe quilt, my Liberty Plaid, my Dorthory's Delight and a 80% finished yet to be named Kaffe panel quilt (I actually still have the needle and perle 8 threaded and part way through some quilting!).

First up is Amy Meets Kaffe.  This quilt uses a combination of Amy Buttler fabrics (the scrappy blue / greens) and then strong Kaffe fabrics.  The photo shows the quilt still in "construction" but it is now finished, quilted with binding.  It is quite a few years old, and even needs some repairs.




Dorothy's Delight is named after the midwife that delivered me, her name is Sister Dorothy Morris and she is now about 88 years old.  Dorothy is a fantastic embroider and whenever I visit home she wants to see what I am working on.  When I showed her this quilt in progress she beamed a brilliant smile, hence the name "Dorothy's Delight".

This quilt appears very similar to the cover quilt of one of Kaffes books, however I promise that this was made before the book was published - just shows that I can channel the inner Kaffe!



Liberty Plaid - you all know about this one.



So ladies, who do you sleep with?

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