A Quilt For My New Nephew Afeeq

I made this quilt as an excited aunt, for my new nephew baby Afeeq :)

I am used to using a mix of different fabrics for my quilts, mostly scrappy but this time I used a baby safari themed collection called Imaginarium from Camelot Cottons. The mix of soft turquoise, yellow and grey just exudes sweet elegance. I especially love all the prints! Each print showing a mama animal hugging their babies, so warm and sweet!

This quilt is a labor of love. I made 9 pinwheel blocks, sashed & bodered. But I machine stitched the binding because at that time my sister in law was already in labor!

Lucky I made it in time for this sweet boy to enjoy....

Afeeq Farhan bin Mohd Fathirrahman...the first born of my baby brother...such a cutie!

I have to say photographing a quilt is SO hard! I can't seem to get all of it in photos lol...but I love making this and will continue making more baby quilts...

Baby Afeeq is now almost 3 months old, already smiling & cooing. He is my 4 nephew (3 of whom are my sister's kids) and my parents' 7th grandchild. Here's to many more babies to cuddle and sew for!

Baby Afeeq...you are loved!!!

I Love Making Mug Rugs

Yes, I do!

They are easy projects, almost instant gratification when I feel a bit bleh about sewing dresses yet not enough time for making a quilt. So I make mug rugs lol...

Last night, I finished this beauty. I designed it myself, a cottage chic mug rug made from mostly Lecien florals, which I adore and hoarded to no end...

I used a pretty natural linen fabric also from Lecien as backing as well as the binding, which I sew by hand. And I also added a delicate lace edging to complete the updated floral, linen & lace look. I love this style and colors but I need to sew more using these fabrics instead of just keeping them stashed away.

This is not my first mug rug. I have made a few for myself and friends. My first mug rug was this one made using the quilt-as-you-go method :

And later when I was still working I made this one for the office, and experimented on my free motion quilting :

Recently I made this as a gift, also using fmq and hand binding :

I plan to make more for sale too. Do you love mug rugs as much as I do? They are great scrap busting projects and quick too!

Fabric Friday - I Won A Fabric Giveaway

Back in December last year I entered the Giveaway Day organised by Sew Mama Sew. I think my fingers went numb from all the comments I left on so many blogs participating in the event. And the result? I won two!

One winning arrived last week and I am loving the fabrics that I won. This one is from a wonderful blog WIPGirl. Kristel lives in Canada and I love discovering her blog and have been admiring her beautiful work.

The fabrics are cuts of boy themed fabrics. I love them of course now that I have a little boy to sew for :) I am thinking of making a patchwork quilt from these cute boy prints. We could never have too many quilts in the house. We use quilts a lot, sometimes as blankets most of the time to spread on the floor for the kids to lie down & play on. So a bigger play quilt would be a good project to start.

Kristel included this cute owl card inside, I love it as I love anything owl-y! Thank you so much Kristel, keep on creating and hugs from sunny Malaysia! :)