Hello my dear friends,

Well, it's finally finished - my navy, lemon and white quilt. I took it to my quilter yesterday and I told her there is no hurry as I know what it's like at this time of year.

Nicola (my Quilter) is going to individually quilt each square for me (custom made), for which I am truly grateful, that way the quilt won't be covered by stitches, as the squares themselves are so full of stitches.

It was made on my Husqvarna Ruby Royale, took months to do and the squares are 7x7 inches (17cm). The whole quilt measures roughly 9ft 2" x 8ft (2.8 x 2m). Went through 5,000 metres of the yellow thread, and nearly as much with the white and navy, hundreds of bobbins and yards of stabiliser and batting.

I have asked Nicola not to put more batting (wadding) in the quilt as I don't like too heavy a quilt when sleeping. Once this is on the bed it will be summertime and it's too hot to have on there anyway.

All the designs are from our own Australian company called Sweetpea in Queensland. They are mostly applique and machine embroidered designs. I added only one design of a Dragon as I was born in the year of the Dragon and that was just a silhoutte design.

When I get it back all that will need to be done is the binding and I'll put a quilt label on the back. Thanks for all the positive comments so far during the construction of this beauty. Love Chris

(If you double click on the picture you can see the squares close up. There are about 9 designs, most of them doubled up -, except for the Dragon - second row from the top third from the right - it's a plain lemon fabric, but you can't really see the Dragon silhouette, it doesn't show from this distance)