006 - A Finish To Show You

I've not just been resting on my laurels over the last six months.  I've been Finishing. Some. Stuff. Off.

I have a feeling I've shown you this before, but it might not have been finished totally.  It's totally bound, labelled stitched on, all good to go.

I even machine quilted this myself on the long arm.  I did okay.  Bit wonky but okay.

I had grand plans to go once a week to Mum's house and get good at long arm quilting.  But like all of my craft plans, I ran out of day and week, and that stopped.

I'm trying to get back to it.  We'll see.

Hope your day is going well.  Happy Quilting!

Monsters Revealed

So you may remember my monsters a few posts ago?

I’ve finished!

I thoroughly enjoyed the making of it but I must admit, I had some angst in the setting of my blocks.

I had a picture in my head, and it just looked awful.

I had planned to cut a whole swag of 3” squares and sash them around the blocks.  But when it came down to it, it looked just toooooo bright.

I’d tried a few sashings, and the further I went on with it the more wrong it became. 

I must admit it doesn’t look so bad online, but the real life version was wayyyyyy too bright.

So I unpicked it all and sulked for a while.

Then I went over to the next town (150 kilometres away) where I could buy fabrics and I brought one fat quarter of each bright fabric plain I could find.

And then I sashed each block with a different colour.

And hey presto, it actually worked!

I have fallen totally in love with this quilt, and though my brother has asked for it for his son, I may not part with it.

It’s one of the few I’ve actually finished!

I think I probably will give it to my delicious six month old nephew for Christmas this year though, so I will have it for a few months.

It’s a bit difficult to see here, because I’ve artfully cropped out the exact part of the quilt I wanted to show you, but can you see the binding?  I couldn’t find a colour that matched how I wanted it to, so I sewed 3” strips together and made a matchy matchy one.  And it was a buggar of a thing to do (*scuse my language) but I think it was totally worth it.

So there you go, my dears.  A lovely new quilt.  I am quietly thrilled to bits with it.

Hope your quilting days are going well.

Suzie

Customer’s Quilt–show and tell

My mother, despite me telling her many times, still hasn’t made herself a blog.  She does some truly lovely quilting designs on her customers’ quilts, and I figured you guys might like to see them!

This was a quilt from a local lady who specified for her quilt to be heavily quilted, which suits Mum to a tee because that’s her ‘thing’.

Sadly there were parts of the thread that bled, which is disappointing for the customer, but I think, both she and Mum did a brilliant job.  Apologies for some dodgy photos there, I’ll never make a professional quilt photographer, I’m afraid!

Till tomorrow,

Suzie