I have been sharing my quilts on Flickr for some time now. Since I just started this blog, I thought I would share some of those quilts on here as well.
The quilt shown below is a baby quilt I made recently, using "Goodbye Moon" fabric. The pattern is my own creation. The small squares surrounded by white show various scenes from the children's book; these were fussy-cut from a "cheater" print in the line (I used the same fabric on the back).
If you hover above the image above, you should see a couple of navigation arrows. These will allow you to scroll through a slideshow of all my completed quilts on Flickr.
May 26, 2014
May 20, 2014
Some hot air
I've decided to start a blog as a means to share some of my quilts. I don't expect to be posting often, but I do hope to share a bit about each quilt I finish.
My most recent finish is a small wall hanging:
The design is based on a mini-flag I made last year for the "To Boston With Love" project coordinated by the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild:
I enlarged the applique design by 200% for the wall hanging, but I kept the background triangles at the same size, to help use up some scraps. The border uses leftover strips as well.
I used a trapunto technique to add an extra layer of batting behind the applique pieces. I tried a shortcut at this step, which did not work out as well as I would have liked. I fused the shapes to the background, then layered a piece of batting underneath before stitching around the shapes with a blanket stitch. I used a walking foot for this step, but the stitching turned out quite uneven, as you can see in this photo:
I hindsight, I think I would have been better off by doing the blanket stitches without the batting, then add the batting with either clear or water soluble thread.
To complete the trapunto effect, I trimmed the batting from the back, close to the stitches. Then I sandwiched the top with a regular-sized piece of batting and a backing fabric, and did the quilting.
The "ropes" were machine stitched using Aurifil 12wt, after quilting the background.
A lot of the scraps in this small quilt are from a larger project which is almost completed. I had hoped to have the larger quilt finished in time for the Blogger's Quilt Festival, but since that isn't to be I decided to enter this one instead.
My most recent finish is a small wall hanging:
The design is based on a mini-flag I made last year for the "To Boston With Love" project coordinated by the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild:
I enlarged the applique design by 200% for the wall hanging, but I kept the background triangles at the same size, to help use up some scraps. The border uses leftover strips as well.
I hindsight, I think I would have been better off by doing the blanket stitches without the batting, then add the batting with either clear or water soluble thread.
To complete the trapunto effect, I trimmed the batting from the back, close to the stitches. Then I sandwiched the top with a regular-sized piece of batting and a backing fabric, and did the quilting.
The "ropes" were machine stitched using Aurifil 12wt, after quilting the background.
A lot of the scraps in this small quilt are from a larger project which is almost completed. I had hoped to have the larger quilt finished in time for the Blogger's Quilt Festival, but since that isn't to be I decided to enter this one instead.
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