Siblings Together Quilt finished!

At last I have got all I needed together to finish this little quilt!

It started with a Jellyroll of Riley Blake from the generous Katy of monkey do! and a bit of Kona solids from my stash...Jade Green, Pomegranate and Chartreuse!  The pattern is sort of Pandora's Box from Pam and Nicky Lintott's book Jelly Roll Quilts!  I had to adapt it for the amount of fabric I had...


I didn't have enough Kona Jade Green to make a final border round the outside of the quilt top.  I re-ordered!

I was thinking how to do the back of the quilt and as I am not really one for yardage in my stash I thought I had better piece it together from solid white and the few leftover bits of the Riley Blake jelly roll from the lovely Katy from monkey do!  I needed more white !  But at the end of this week I got the back pieced too!

I quilted it with flowers and hearts using some of my much loved Aurifil 28 that I won in a fabulous giveaway chez the most awesome Lynne at lilysquilts.  Lynne I am using it up and putting it to good use!  Rather pleased with the quilting - who'd have thought I could, if you go back to my first FMQ efforts with Cindy and Leah Day - ugly FMQ here!

For the binding I rather fancied a stripe but as I didn't have a suitable one I went with a plaid in green, blue and white from my stash, which I cut on the bias for that little bit extra and hand sewed it at the back ....

This time I went with Mary's tutorial for finishing the end of the binding with a little pocket and am pleased with how easy it was - her tutorial is here!  I would recommend it for an easy finish - I will be using this method again - thanks Mary!

So things have come from various places to make this little quilt for a young girl somewhere in the UK.  She is in care at the moment and not even in a home with her siblings.  If this quilt makes her feel even a little bit more loved and special, if it helps her to remember meeting up with her brother or sister and the fun times they had at the Siblings Together camp it will have done it's job!

Now I just have to get a label from Laura and I'm done with this one and starting on another soon.... If you want to know more click here for the beginning of the story so far and here to see what others have done and how you can still help!