Sunday, May 21, 2006

Playing with alphabets











Yesterday afternoon the fancy took me to do something completely different - I've been stitching hexagons over paper for England for the past 5 months and lots of hand applique too.

Anyway whilst browsing through the blogs I usually drop into now and again I rediscovered Tonya's lovely free pieced letters and thought I'd give them a try.

The above is the result of a good 3 to 4 hours stitching throughout yesterday evening.

This morning I couldn't sleep so got up around 7.45 am and worked on putting them together - here is the result


Not sure how I'll quilt this but quilte fancy just free motion quilting, writing the alphabet all over in lower case.

Now I have the germ of an idea to stitch a 'Liverpool FA Cup Winners' quilt for my little boy who worships the ground Steven Gerrard walks on.

I can envisage it in Red and White with some yellow which are the club colours with the names of the whole squad on a single bed sized quilt.

I'd better not tell him I've had the idea or else he'll be nagging the pants of me to get on with it.

6 comments:

Tracey said...

Wow! You are fast!! That's a really neat quilt! :o)

Fiona said...

Lovely quilt and I the colours are great too. I'll bet your little boy would love a Liverpool quilt - he'll be the envy of all his friends.

Lucy said...

I love this quilt.. The alphabet turn out so nice . Like the borders

ForestJane said...

Nice sampler! And all done in a night? Wow!

I love the borders too. :)

Evelyn aka Starfishy said...

Wow, you are fast! Love your fabric choices - the letters really pop.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I just had a nice time reading yours - rather than leave a comment on each entry, I will just say that your work is wonderful! Unbelieveable cable applique - you have lots of patience!

Cheers!

Evelyn

Helen in the UK said...

Love your letters - that's something on my 'to do one day' list :)