The teddy bear quilt top for is now finished! I’m thrilled with how it turned out. The 9-patch blocks are 3″ each. It’s hand pieced, other than adding the borders, and will finish at 23 x 26 inches.
Edited to add: Thanks to this tutorial on Peg’s Happy in Quilting blog, adding the peeper was a piece of cake!
Now to quilt it. Given all the little seams in it, this will be machine quilted. Only simple quilting, mind you, as my machine quilting skills do not include free motion quilting. I’d love to be able to, but just cannot get the hang of it. My plan is to get the quilting done sometime during the weekend and hopefully I’ll have the binding on by the end of the weekend.
I had to fight myself not to keep adding more 9-patch blocks and making the little quilt grow. My goal is to try to make small quilts for a while. That way I’ll be able to try patterns, design elements, colour combinations that are dancing around in my head without committing to a large project. I’m reassessing some of the larger projects I have started and deciding how to cut them back to small quilts.
The New York Beauty and Square in a Square blocks and, of course, Insanity are the only large projects on my list. I’m still undecided on Insanity — whether to do it in shabby chic or Orientals. I think the effect in Orientals could be stunning but also love the softness of the shabby chic prints.
This is another of the flowering trees on the roof garden. The blooms don’t last long, but they are SO pretty!
The close-up shows the colour of the blooms a bit better.
Now if it would only warm up!! This is miserable weather for late May. We’re going to be lucky to see 65 over the weekend and it gets so cool at night that one needs heat on! After the winter we had, I want the hot humid weather for a few months!!
Quilt Obsession 
Love your little nine patch quilt.I also wish that I could do free motion on my sewing machine, but I just don’t have the time to practice. Anything that I want to quilt circles or hearts on either goes out to be long armed or put on a shelf to be hand quilted someday.The tree is beautiful! If we had any warm weather, I’d send some your way…nothing here for the next week except clouds and rain.
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What a sweet little quilt. And such tiny blocks.
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Little quilts are such fun to make and very handy to practice new ideas and techniques *s*
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The roof garden is so neat. As for the teddy bear quilt. Boy I lvoe this. The fabrics are so neat and the way you’ve pieced them so perfect is just unreal! Well, I know its real but I’m just sayin’. 😉 That pink border is perfect to pull it all together, too. Just a big huge WOW!Eye candy Love, *karendianne.
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Cathi…the quilt is just fantastic…
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Your little quilt is adorable – perfect for a teddy bear :o) Have fun quilting it!
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LOVE this little quilt, it’s a beauty ! :>)I’m trying my hands on my first one, and will hopefully post it some of these days…We had very nice weather for a week (even too warm !), but now the sky is angy with thunder and heavy rain.Your tree is fantastic, I’ve got one in my garden, and it’s a delight to look at it, every spring.(((hugs)) & smiles to you, Cathi!Nadine(didn’t feel very well, these days, but I don’t forget you ;>)
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What a wonderful little quilt! It’s scrappy, but coordinated, and your layout makes your eyes travel happily all over the quilt.I never knew rooftop gardens could be REAL gardens till you started posting photos. Yours is incredible. Wow!
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I love your little nine patch. That is tooo cute. Great flowering tree too. I wouldn’t mind having that in my yard. Or on my roof. LOL
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