Urban Zoologie Birthday quilt

Its my son's 9th birthday tomorrow so I thought I'd better get a move on and make his quilt!


The pattern is based on this cot quilt, with the sashing double the height and 6" charm squares.



The main fabrics are from Robert Kaufmann's Urban Zoologie range and the sashing and bindings are a poplin from Spotlight. I thought it was 100% cotton, but after I bought it I realised its a poly blend. It still washes up nicely, but it seems harder to free motion quilt over and tends to bunch up a bit. I'll make sure I get 100% cotton next time.



On other sewing notes, the chanel style jacket is ready for the trim and pockets and I have a silk dupioni Lonsdale dress to blog about as soon as I get photos of my Mum wearing it. The chanel jacket has some bunching in front of the arms that wasn't on the muslin thats got me a bit annoyed, I'm not planning on taking it apart again (it took a couple of goes to get the sleeves in) but I'd like to work out why its happening.

Urban Zoologie cot quilt

A quick quilt for my Dad's girlfriends daughters son (did you follow all that, lol)!


It's definitely getting quicker each time I make these - it only took about 2hrs to quilt this time.


I've been having a bit of trouble with my Janome feed dogs not raising again properly after I free motion quilt so I thought I'd break out my Singer, I got it at an auction last year and haven't used it, I was a bit scared of it to be honest! Once I finally worked out how to thread it (I printed out a manual), and found how easy it was to lower the feed dogs, it worked great! Its got a lovely big flat area to move the fabric on, I found it got a bit stuck on the thicker seam lines compared to the Janome but I think bigger needles will help with that.


The main fabrics are Robert Kaufman's Urban Zoologie - I cut them into 6" squares and its just plain cotton as the border/binding. I used this pattern again.


I love the little monkeys and owls :) I have heaps of this left over so it will end up being a full size single bed quilt for my son.

This will be my last quilt for a while - I'm part of the way through a Chanel style jacket for my Mum (and geez, its taking forever with all the hand sewing, not sure I would have started if I realised how much time was involved!), halfway through another Lonsdale dress also for my Mum. Then I have a couple of jackets, jeans, more renfrew tops and the couture dress still to sew - Yikes!