Teddy Bear Collector - complete

Well Wednesday the 30th of July crept up on me sideways! It was the day of my sister's special birthday and I was determined to get my wall hanging finished on time. Unfortunately that was not to be and I decided I would have it complete at the weekend instead and deliver it in person (she lives 1.5 hrs away).  Out of the blue I received a phone call, saying "come on down tomorrow night for tea and stay the night". Eeekkk.... I had the hanging complete except for the binding and frame sleeve.

After putting down the phone I tackled these last minute additions which turned out to be a nightmare. For the life of me (probably quilt brain freeze) I couldn't work out how to end the binding with that special mitre. And as for the frame sleeve, which I had never done before, I made the first one too narrow and the second was a struggle to turn inside out. Midnight arrived after 3.5 hours and only had the hand binding to do. I decided to call it quits and take the quilt to work the next day and to finish off my binding in the lunch break. What a mission for such a little project. I really did underestimate totally!

Here it is all with a love heart frame ready for hanging. 

Teddy bear collector lives here

Bear collector lives here - prep work

I brought this Teddy Bear Collector pattern from Away with the Fairys in Cust a long time ago, but finally I had the occasion to make it, for my sister's 50th birthday and because she is that collector!

The stitching took awhile (count quite a few weeks) cos it's not really my thing, but I got there in the end. The set up below is of my initial choice of placement.

Ready for next project

As quilters we are always focused on getting our projects completed one by one... yeah right! So here I am starting another project, but one that needs to be completed before the 30th July so it turns up for my sister's 50th birthday. Thus it is small and quick to make (I hope). I have to do a bit of hand stitching, which isn't my strongest task. It is a small wall hanging for the bear collector that she is.

Selecting the colour range with my assistant...

He finally made the move to have a bath

All clean waiting for his next move