Quilted Farm Play Mat

I've been so preoccupied with my new mini quilt this week that I haven't shown you the farm quilt from last week all finished up.

As you can probably see the gates all 'open', and the barn door too.

I finished it off with a few extra details - like the button flowers around the house, and button door handles.

And a few fish in the river.

 But generally I stuck to leaving it open for imaginative play, since, as a play mat,  that's what this was designed for. It would be lovely to make a bed quilt along these lines too, and get to put more on that - like the sheep, pigs, chickens etc.

Usually I like to make a 'quilt bag' for quilts I give as presents, but this time I decided to have a bit of a change and make a cushion cover...

It's just the right size to fold up the quilt and stuff the cushion with it.

It was definitely a fun quilt to make, and I think it would translate well to making it in bright, cheerful cottons as well.  But I really enjoyed using the wools and it's got me wanting to make another 'picture' style quilt from wools now - maybe a seaside scene.

Back tomorrow,

Sally.

PS Oops, almost forgot, I'm linking up with Needle and Thread Thursday over at My Quilt Infatuation today.