Polaroid mini quilt

It has been a busy week so I have been looking forward to some time at my sewing machine this weekend. I decided I would try and put my polaroids together for the mini-quilts our Monday night modern sewing group are making. Because we plan to donate these to the hospital for babies in NICU we decided to choose bright colours to set the polaroids in.

I cut yellow strips at 2.25 inches, thinking that would give me enough room to cut my blocks with some 'wonk' back to 7.5 x 8.5inches. In fact this was not quite enough leeway for as much wonk as I would have liked - 2.5 inches would have been better. My quilt top finished at 21x24 inches. Hopefully I get time through the week to quilt this, but the film festival has started so I predict not too much time at the sewing machine in the next wee while!

Polaroids

Our recent homework for the Monday modern quilt group I belong to was make some little polaroid blocks. When we meet tonight we will see how many we have and then decide how to put them together.  The plan is to make a quilt we can donate. I think it would make a great child's quilt.

I realised when I went to make these last night that I don't have a lot of fabric with either animals or little scenes on it. I really like the blocks that Jacqui and Karen have made - can't wait to see everyone else's!