Hello and welcome! If you've headed over from the Blogger's Quilt Festival then it's great to see you here. I'm a brand new Mum, Mia is just 11 weeks old, and I sew to keep me sane. I've been obsessed by patchwork and quilting for the last few years - if you'd like to see some of my finishes, then there are links at the top of the page for 2012, 2013 and 2014 so far!
My second entry in this Bloggers' Quilt Festival is my Neon Stained quilt. I'm entering this in the home quilted category.
If you are a regular reader then you will know a couple of things already about this quilt - it has been a WIP for years and I recently did an epic quilting job on it. For those of you who are new, here's the full story: In spring 2012 Sarah from Narcoleptic in a Cupboard led a quilt along for her quilt Stained. I had collected some citrus coloured fabric and this was perfect. The pink was a bit of a last minute addition. You can find all the info for the quilt on Sarah's blog.
After some epic cutting over the Easter weekend, and then a week off work spent piecing (heaven) I had a finished quilt top. I even got it basted fairly quickly. I added it to my Finish Along list. And then the next quarter and the next and the next....
I couldn't decide how to quilt it. I had two ideas: very dense straight line quilting or individual quilting patterns in each coloured block. Both had disadvantages. For the first idea I just couldn't decide on a thread colour. For the second idea my free motion quilting wasn't good enough. Since summer 2012 I have stippled a large number of quilts and did some other patterns as part of the Skill Builder Quilt Along (something else I haven't finished and that is on my Finish Along list).
For some reason I decided April this year was the month to do it and to go with option 2. I madly pinned lost of quilting ideas on my Quilting Pinterest Board and then picked out the ones I could feasibly attempt. I did a huge blog post dissecting the quilting a few weeks ago and I decided that there were some patterns I would never try again, others that I was really pleased with and lots I wanted to work on further.
The backing is a cotton fabric from Ikea. I quilted it with the same colour in the bobbin as the top thread so you can see the quilting (in all it's glory/gory) from the back.
I finally finished attaching the binding this afternoon! I added a corner of orange to black binding. This may be my favourite quilt ever. I love the colours and how bright it is and I love the dense quilting - this is a heavy quilt.
As well as linking up for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival, in a few weeks time I will also be linking this up with Katie as one of my finishes for this quarter. You can find my original Finish Along list here.
My other entry in this Bloggers' Quilt Festival is my Thread Along quilt - you can find the post here. If you'd like to see my previous entries into the Blogger's Quilt Festival, you can follow the links below:
Bear Paws
Rhubarb and Custard
Pembrokeshire
Bubbles Baby Quilt
Farmer's Wife Quilt
Rainbow Incubator Quilt
Wilding Angels - my first quilt
Thanks for stopping by!
My second entry in this Bloggers' Quilt Festival is my Neon Stained quilt. I'm entering this in the home quilted category.
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| It's windy today and I was using an inexperienced quilt-holder-upper |
If you are a regular reader then you will know a couple of things already about this quilt - it has been a WIP for years and I recently did an epic quilting job on it. For those of you who are new, here's the full story: In spring 2012 Sarah from Narcoleptic in a Cupboard led a quilt along for her quilt Stained. I had collected some citrus coloured fabric and this was perfect. The pink was a bit of a last minute addition. You can find all the info for the quilt on Sarah's blog.
After some epic cutting over the Easter weekend, and then a week off work spent piecing (heaven) I had a finished quilt top. I even got it basted fairly quickly. I added it to my Finish Along list. And then the next quarter and the next and the next....
I couldn't decide how to quilt it. I had two ideas: very dense straight line quilting or individual quilting patterns in each coloured block. Both had disadvantages. For the first idea I just couldn't decide on a thread colour. For the second idea my free motion quilting wasn't good enough. Since summer 2012 I have stippled a large number of quilts and did some other patterns as part of the Skill Builder Quilt Along (something else I haven't finished and that is on my Finish Along list).
For some reason I decided April this year was the month to do it and to go with option 2. I madly pinned lost of quilting ideas on my Quilting Pinterest Board and then picked out the ones I could feasibly attempt. I did a huge blog post dissecting the quilting a few weeks ago and I decided that there were some patterns I would never try again, others that I was really pleased with and lots I wanted to work on further.
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| I was quite pleased with the "wood grain" effect in the block bottom right The square spiral (orange in the centre) gave a really dense finish I liked |
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| My favourite was very dense matchstick quilting (pink block in the middle) And I want to further develop the ideas where I've combined two patterns in the same block (green top left) |
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| I want to try the "stringed circles" (yellow and green blocks at the bottom) again |
The backing is a cotton fabric from Ikea. I quilted it with the same colour in the bobbin as the top thread so you can see the quilting (in all it's glory/gory) from the back.
I finally finished attaching the binding this afternoon! I added a corner of orange to black binding. This may be my favourite quilt ever. I love the colours and how bright it is and I love the dense quilting - this is a heavy quilt.
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| Fleck of orange binding in the bottom right corner |
My other entry in this Bloggers' Quilt Festival is my Thread Along quilt - you can find the post here. If you'd like to see my previous entries into the Blogger's Quilt Festival, you can follow the links below:
Bear Paws
Rhubarb and Custard
Pembrokeshire
Bubbles Baby Quilt
Farmer's Wife Quilt
Rainbow Incubator Quilt
Wilding Angels - my first quilt
Thanks for stopping by!
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