AMH Painted Portrait Dress

The Painted Portrait pattern by Anna Maria Horner is quite a versatile one as it can be used to make either a dress or blouse with options for sleeved or sleeveless versions.

As it is summer here, I chose to make a sleeveless version of the dress using some of the lovely feathers fabric from AMH Field Study.

Although I have used this pattern before, I again got a bit confused when sewing the yoke/armhole seams but have found a great tutorial by Made by Rae on how to do the yoke lining.

This just needs a quick press then I can wear it to a New Years gathering this evening!

This was on my FAL Q4 list for this year so linking up with the 2017 FAL team.

Kirsten.

Tula Pink Butterfly quilt

The Tula Pink Butterfly quilt has long been on my to-do list and I had a put aside a FQ bundle of Eden fabric for when I finally got around to making it.

When Angie @gnomeangel announced the sewalong earlier this year I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to join in and make it at last!

The quilt looks more complicated that it really is as it is mainly composed of simple quilt blocks such as log cabins, flying geese and HST's - although those round blocks certainly were a bit more challenging! 

I used a Prima solid in silver for the background fabric and managed to buy some of the Eden moth fabric in Amethyst for the backing.

As this is a fairly large quilt, I sent it to my local quilter Karen at Rainbow Patchwork to be long arm quilted.

Now I just have to wait until it cools down for winter so I can put this quilt on our bed...

This was on my FAL Q4 list for this year so linking up with the 2017 FAL team.

Kirsten.