Innocent Crush quilt

We have just returned from spending the weekend with my family- which included birthday celebrations for Sister 3- who may or may not have secretly told me this was her favourite birthday present:

The fabric is Innocent Crush by Anna Maria Horner- I bought some a while back, thinking it would complement Sister 3's bedroom.  She loved it when I showed her, and we started looking at quilt patterns together.  She seemed to prefer more modern quilts, and when we stumbled across the Rectangle Squared tutorial from Film in the Fridge, which also uses Innocent Crush, she was very taken with it.  I was also very taken with it as it looked quite straightforward!  You can see it goes very well in her bedroom.

I also did some embroidery for the back of the quilt.  The design is from Issue 3 of Fat Quarterly  The backing is a lilac spot I picked up from The Spot specially for this quilt, with Sister 3's bedding in mind.  The binding is also Anna Maria Horner, Little Folks Voile Pastry Line.  The voile was a little slippery when I was hand sewing the binding, but it is lovely and soft and is the perfect frame for the quilt.

Once again Fran did the quilting for me.  I chose a simple curves in a pale blue thread and the quilting really added another dimension to this quilt- I was so pleased with how it looked once the quilting was done.

My sisters and I had a great time together over the weekend.  Whilst A1 and A2 spent some time with their grandparents, we headed off to Newtown to do a spot of shopping.  I don't get to go there often and when I do go, we always go to one of our favourite shops- Made 590- where we did some clothes shopping, and then had a Mars Bar milkshake (Sister 4 has a Snickers milkshake).  Yummo.  Lucky I don't get there often, I was still on a sugar high in the evening.  On the way there we saw this billboard:

And then this one:

The countdown is on!