A few years ago I gave my sister a quilt for her birthday.  The quilt was what I call a ‘bed topper’ or lap quilt – about 1500mm square.

However in the (pathetic attempt at) wintery weather we have been having, she has discovered it’s not big enough to snuggle completely under, and wanted to know if I could make it bigger.

Here is the new layout.  The original quilt is 7 squares x 7 squares, and this has the new blocks laid out around it ready to sew together.  As you can see it has a lot of Kaffe Fassett fabrics, the leftovers of which by now, had been used up 🙂

Cue the ordering of lots of fabric online, picking similar colours, and although the ranges now seem more blue than purple, we think it works well.  There was only one of the original fabrics that I could get more of.

I’m doing a modified quilt as you go sewing together method, and will post the finished quilt when it’s done (soon I hope).  Unpicking the binding took 3 hours of not particularly fun mindless television watching.  If the blocks are smoothed out, they are still the original size, so I used that to make the new ones, and hopefully there wont be much shrinkage difference.  I’m having to take a punt on the batting fabric, and using up leftovers I have.  Thankfully I almost always buy the same batting so it should be ok.

I have also ordered fabric for a nephew quilt.  How cool is this.  One of the fabrics even glows in the dark!

Here is a tentative layout, but I’m still not quite happy.  I think it’s a bit ho hum – something’s not quite right.