Sneaking in under the wire...

....for Amy's Bloggers Quilt Festival.

When I noticed on Monday that the Festival was on I had nothing new to show you.

However, there were two reasons to see if I could churn something out by today:

• Ella-Sofia born on 19 October and quiltless!
• I was the lucky winner of one of these:

It had been sat patiently to one side for a couple of weeks while life got in the way.

So on Monday evening I opened it up and cranked through a bunch of 2 1/2" squares. In retrospect I should have cranked through the 4" square that came on the same die for a quicker outcome.

And fast it does go. I didn't have any wastage to speak of that others have commented on and I only have two small slight concerns.

The deposit of yellow that appears on the roller (top of picture) and on the board that you crank it out onto. To me that means two things are making such close contact that something is rubbing off something and in the long term I'm not sure that is ideal. I'd be grateful to hear if anyone else has experienced this as well.

And the second thing is this:

This is the plastic mat that you put over your fabric and die before cranking it through the roller. I have made just one small baby quilt, moved the position of the plastic mat around as the instructions tell you to do but already the mat is quite significantly indented. Again, I'm not sure that bodes well for longevity of use.

However, in terms of speed and the ability it gives you to quickly cut potentially difficult shapes (I'm going to test the Drunkards Path die next) I think it is a winner.

Anyway, I didn't intend this to be a review of the Go! Baby. So what did I make?

You can click on it for a larger view if you like.

Once you've cut your squares they all go together perfectly (more perfectly than if I had been let loose with a rotary cutter and mat) and it sews up fairly quickly. The light is a bit pants this morning and doesn't show off (imo) the beautiful colours.

Again, please feel free to click on this one.

Quilting was just following either side of all the seams to make a grid pattern with my walking foot and stitch length set to 3.20 on my Bernina.

As it is a small(ish) baby quilt I was able to get away without having to piece the back and just used some fabric to hand.

It will hopefully be with Ella-Sofia this weekend when we pay our first visit.

As usual, I am now off to see what everyone else has been up to.