It's Quilt Time

Update since I let this one stew in my drafts: I went with black binding since it happened to be on sale. It's not going to look great but I'm not going to be looking at the edges of my quilt anyway. Plus, my first quilt is allowed to be terrible. I'm going to have to piece the back and the batting since I couldn't find enough of the fabric I wanted or wide enough batting but I have ideas and I'm excited!!! All that stuff arrives Monday and I'll hopefully get to work next weekend.

Made the lanterns of hope quilt top pattern as a little birthday present to myself , very happy how it came out

Finished my first quilt! All by hand, only machine used was an iron. I learned a TON in the process and am excited to start another (with my own pattern variations this time 😈)

Finished the top of the 20 year old scrap quilt! Miiiiight put on another brown border... definitely gonna bind it with that same brown. The last bit of brown will really tie it together, but I don't know if a thick border of brown will bog it down too much.

behold the bird quilt

So my water lily quilt is coming along once again, and I'm noting an issue which is that the green of the lily pads and the blue of the water blur together so that's kind of a bummer. I'm thinking of using a crochet yarn to do the quilting similar to how I did the stars on my space quilt to do outline details to help them stand out

I Know God Because She’s Right Outside My Home

daughter of the white tree

I decided to take up quilting to make a bunch of stuff for people for Christmas. I'm making a set of pillows and a twin sized quilt. Not pictured is the materials to make a set of quilted bags and pouches and quilted city play mat for the kids.

It's not like I don't already sew garments, crochet garments and accessories, make soap, and make soup/ cookie jars.

This set is a very pleasing colour pallet though.

Finished quilt top dimensions: 100×100 inches or 256×256 cm)

I finally sat down and finished my massive autumnal crow quilt. I cut the blocks out about three years ago and then got overwhelmed by the prospect of figuring out placement. Gotta love the ADHD panic.

This quilt spiraled out from finding an awesome crow panel and my love of the traditional poem about counting crows. The center most block has the poem machine embroidered, which required the fabric to be rehooped every 4 inches (10 cm).

The other block features a giant crow appliqué which was done with a freezer paper template that I made.

Anyway, I did decided to give it a do-over, and make it dramatic this time!

Black in the center to yellow on the outside. I’m curious to how it’ll look with the shades inverse.

It’s looking good so far!

I like the dark in the centre as much as I like the light there. Mike&Ike approves as well 💖

Of course, the plain black in the center is a little stark, but put a bit of gold quilting on it…

Had to put black cuddletex on the back which looks good with the yellow binding.

It’s definitely different from the other yellow Luminous, but I don’t know if I’d say better. I like them both 😭😂