Laurie's Scraps Template Challenge

Each month I try and do some Challenges on Laurie's Scraps Forum, because I really like her stuff, and it is nice to challenge myself. This is the layout that I did for January's challenge. The layout was done completely with Laurie's kits.

 

I have to say since doing a Photography course and buying my new Canon 450D DSLR, my pictures really have improved - okay so I am not going to be taking any professional wedding shots, but I have to say that the photos I am taking lately just look better. If you have better pictures I think your layouts look better because you can't always salvage a bad photo with great scrapping.

This morning I managed to finish a quilt top that I started over about 8 years ago (and actually is was meant for someone else), and had it sitting in the cupboard for a very long time. Well my daughter was helping me clean up - as only 3 year olds can - and she found this unfinished quilt top and decided that it was going to be hers. Well, only 2 major problems with that - the colour scheme was so completely wrong for a girl, but also for her room and the actual quilt top wouldn’t fit any know bed size. I am so not sure what I was thinking when I pieced it all together.

So, these are the colours - red, blue and yellow. I had already done one small navy border and one large yellow border. I decided to fix the sizing by putting in strips of fabric along the top where the pillow would go and then re-border the whole thing

I had to keep in with the colour scheme so it wouldn’t be too different, and decided to go for a backing fabric that would be more suited for my daughters age/colour scheme so the quilt can be flipped, and used on either side. Only just got the fabric today, so I have a lot of work ahead of me. Not to mention I have never free motion quilted before and that is what I want to do on this quilt so I will need to be putting in lots of practice. I am so grateful to have found Leah Day's website to help me in my quest to free motion quilt. I will update then the quilt is finished or close to it. Wish me luck.