The Independence day seems to be a good day for me to be back on my blog. So here I am. Happy Independence Day Bulgaria!

It took me some time to get used to being a mom of a pupil, which includes super early start of the day and driving, being sleep deprived and my sewing machine being neglected… To make things even more interesting I dropped my camera by some really stupid incident… but it is back working now…

I am behind the Doll Quilt Swap schedule, but the quilt is ready finally. I am happy with it.

I had never made such a complex quilt entirely by hand before. My first entirely handmade quilt was simpler. But wanted this one colourful and cheerful, not so stylish as the first one. I am now showing the quilt as it is a surprise package which has not reached its recipient yet. It was great pleasure making it. I did not follow precisely my partner likings. I hope it will be liked. I really love being part of Doll Quilt Swap.

And I received a DQS package too. Will blog it soon. It is gorgeous!

So it was easy to make it different – white to replace the colours, scissors to be the cutting tool, needle to replace the machine /no options really here/. I have being keeping some yo-yos for a year so I really wanted to use some of them.

I like the clean and simple look of it. It appears to have some serene qualities and I do like serene style in quilts.

I call it a successful experiment and have already planed some new ones to match.

It is my first quilt made by hand – no single machine stitch here, nor any rotary cutting or any other “modern” help.

I used Perle cotton for the quilting and did not quilted too much as I was trying to make it all as as simple as possible. I am still not sure if it would look better with some white quilting on the background. I decided not to add it to keep the texture of the ovals.

The quilting is in three different shades of green. Oh, and the label is in orange /of course/.

If you are like me, you will be happy to see that Sew, Mama, Sew! has started a 2nd Handmade Holidays campaign this year. Click on the “Handmade Holidays” banner at  the right column of my blog, to be part of the holiday fun!