Another wedding gift!

Another one of my lovely friends got married last week and I was lucky enough to be a bridesmaid again! It was such a brilliant day, great fun and everything about the day reflected her style and personality perfectly.

As a wedding gift for the happy couple, and a reminder of the day, I designed and cross stitched a sampler style momento. The colours and patterns match themes from the wedding day, as well as embroidering the place and date of the wedding at the bottom.

I love the simplicity of this idea and would love to eventually offer a customised wedding or baby cross stitch sampler on my Etsy shop... Pick two colours, a few different themes and a message and away I go! What do you think?

Wedding Quilt

Earlier this year my best and oldest friend got married and I was privileged enough to be one of her bridesmaids. I've known her since I was three years old, and we were in the same school class as each other all the way from nursery through to college. It's for this reason I wanted to get her something meaningful. I decided to make her a patchwork quilt... with three weeks to go until the wedding.

Despite working late nights and weekends on it, needless to say, I didn't finish it in time! But three months later it was finally finished and here it is...

I wanted to create something that was traditional and modern and old and new. The design is a traditional type pinwheel quilt, but the colours I chose are fresh and contemporary. The fabrics are a mixture of new and old vintage fabrics I had got from my Grandma.

I also hand embroidered a little keepsake ticket and attached it to the back of the quilt, as a reminder of the day.