Birthday weekend

Hi everyone. Hope your weekend was lovely! Mine was.
Seb and I spent the weekend at my parents' as the whole family gathered to celebrate my father's and my younger sister's birthdays.

I had gone to bed late the night before to add the finishing touches to their presents!

Here is my father's quilt, quilted and bound:

(You can see the details better in the picture above, but the real colours are those below:)

Dad really likes it. I'm glad! I added a habging sleeve to the back.

For my sister, besides the purse and the Popcorn bear, I made her a small basket (in French we call those "vide-poches", because you can "empty your pockets" in them)

Back and inside:

The print fabric is the same cotton I used to make a skirt for Hélène, a couple of months ago (I had made one for me too!). The fabric inside is towelling. I interfaced the print fabric for more stiffness and sandwiched a layer batting between the cotton fabric and the towelling fabric, to add softness. I quilted the bottom to flatten it.

Finally, I embroidered her a towel (click for a close-up):



I chose the colours to make the kitten look like Violette (Hélène is very fond of her too!).

Those were merry birthday celebrations. With everyone's work obligations we don't get the chance to be all together often (we are four siblings), so we try to enjoy those times to the utmost.