Last week I managed to finish last months section of my Coming Home quilt BOM. This is the medallion quilt BOM by Sarah Fielke and last month’s was particularly labour intensive! There was lots of houses to piece, roofs to make and if that wasn’t enough, there were clouds, suns, moons and other bits besides to applique.
I took the borders on holiday and I did manage to get a fair bit stitched, but there was still quite a lot to do…
I originally chose an ivory patterned fabric for the moon, but it just disappeared, so I changed it to a light teal plain fabric. The stars around the moon are actually a light teal too with little white glow in the dark spots. Ironically I originally bought this fabric for the background but it looked too bright amongst the other fabrics, so I used it for the stars instead and it doesn’t look at all bright. On the photos they don’t show up much at all but in real life they look fine!
With all the applique completed I could stitch the border onto the quilt. The quilt already measures nearly 54″ square. I’m already thinking about missing off the final border, just because these quilts are pretty big and there is a limit to how many generous king size quilts a home needs!
This month is a lot lighter, allowing people to catch up, we’ve just got a few trees to applique, I must get started with it though!
I’m linking up with Kathy’s Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday, please follow the link to see lots more inspiring hand-stitching.
thecraftycreek 
Lovely quilt.
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Thank you
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Looks beautiful
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Thank you
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Oh what a lovely quilt
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Very pretty!
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This is so pretty!
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Thank you
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Beautiful! I am still working on the applique…the moons are done and the suns are in progress. I’m trying to get caught up before the end of the month. This is such a fun project!
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It’s been quite a heavy month this time, at least this month is lighter!
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I love the soft colours you have used for this quilt!
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Thanks, they’re my sort of colours 🙂
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That is so beautiful! You are very talented!
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Thank you, it’s working out pretty well.
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A lot of work and love went into this and it shows 🙂
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Thanks, it’s taken a while this month!
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Fabulous quilt, love the design and the colors!
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Thanks Carole, I’m pleased with it so far
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Love this quilt! Great work!
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Thanks, it’s coming along nicely.
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It’s beautiful.
I am going to make a quilt! Hopefully with your help as I haven’t a clue! A baby quilt (youngest daughter) – probably with appliqued safari animals (I have machine embroidery patterns for these). Can you point me towards an easy primer for starting?
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Hi Anne, have a look on pinterest, I’ve just searched for baby safari quilts and lots came up. Precuts such as jelly rolls or charm squares are an easy way to start (2.5″ strips or 5″ squares) There’s a quilt show in Harrogate at the end of August if you’re interested. Not as big as the knitting and stitching but still a fair few stalls and quilts to look at. E-mail me if you want any help, you can always come down.
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This will be a pretty quilt even if it is smaller than expected.
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What an amazing quilt, great job!
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It looks terrific! It’s so interesting how different a fabric looks in real life vs. on the computer screen!
Thanks for linking up!
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Lovely work! I am amazed at what quilters can create. I was just at the Calgary Stampede and saw a display of quilting that was just artwork! It’s all so labour intensive and beautiful! 😍
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It’s looking great, Margaret! I like your idea of leaving off a border to make it a smaller quilt.
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Thank Kathy, they’re just such big quilts…and the final border looks fiddly 🙂
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Gorgeous quilt x
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