авторски пачуърк създаден в България : patchwork + gifts: handmade in Bulgaria
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Well, it grows in the getting more finished sense, not in size.
Getting the edges sewn together and the blocks ready, makes it all so clean and ordered. Looking forward to putting the whole top together this afternoon to enjoy an even cleaner look.
Spider web blocks were expected to accumulate lots of seam allowances bulk along the seams, so I am fixing this on the way.
Will see how much fixing will help me quilt it smoothly. Hopefully it will make quilting way easier.
Tags: Doll Quilt Swap, DQS9
Just a few days before the deadline… it is about to appear.
I do like how it is going now. By this time the top is almost finished.
I am using the the very first idea, the first colours I thought about… It is a little planned, a little impulsive and looks as expected.
I am not happy, I am almost late. I hope the quilt be loved though. Doll Quilt Swap emotions!
More pictures on Flick in the Pool.
When I got a call yesterday, I had a package waiting for me in the post office, I though it will be a fabrics one.
Well, I found out today it was… but some of the fabrics were sewn into a lovely quilt, as I has received my Doll Quilt Swap package!
It was wrapped in the most beautiful blue paper, so Dutch in style you can not mistake where it was coming from.. and checked inside! in red and white!
The content itself was even more amazing, just as expected – a lovely modern quilt in great prints, lovely design and fantastic IKEA backing.
I also received the cutest little chocolate. It did not make it to the picture but not because it was eaten… I suppose it will never be… it just over the size of an SD card.. and I touched Japanese woven ribbons for the first time!
I have not taken picture of the quilt itself displayed yet, as I have something on the display spot now. Will take one tomorrow.
I will blog a little more about it then. It is a very, very, beautiful quilt! I am so happy to be its recipient.
Thank you, Linda!
I love every detail in it!
The place is occupied by a cute dress I made last week for a special lady.
Sorry for the blurred picture. It is partly due to insufficient light, partly due to me felling not just right to show it yet.
It is not exactly Doll Quilt Swap info you might think. Actually it is – this is the reason I was not piecing and quilting on my DQS quilt last week. Starting my quilt today!
Tags: DQS9
Here are the latest pictures of my spring-summer experiment – started in February and Finished in July. It will be in the shop today or tomorrow.
I was so happy with process, I am already saving scrapes for the next one. The only really bad thing about this type of quilt is you really need scraps. Since I have already used most of my scraps, I have to cut uncut fabric pieces to make scrappy quilt… Not than I am not able to do it LOL.
This makes me think my studio might prove to be a quite organized one… We have a tale here about a an old man who was looking for a tidy young woman to be his daughter in law.
He sat on his cart all full with plums and shouted he was bartering plums for household waste. He than asked the girl with the hand-full of waste to marry his son. She even borrowed the waste from her neighbors as she had no at her house…
I am not at all that tidy or organized, I just use every bit of fabric I have. Love it too much to waste it. And I am now to pick an ordinary – notscrappy - project or too to make, so I can accumulate some scraps … Makes me smile as I know most people just piece, quilt and than look for a project to utilize the scraps. Well I am crazy enough to do just the opposite – need “normal” projects to make some scraps, I need…
I received it in time. It was long ago. I realize now I have not shown it yet….
It is a stunning design in interesting colours, plus black and white. Did you notice the muttered border and the quilting? On a Whim made a lovely quilt!
I am still not able to find a place for it, as I have no such a contrast corner, which is a pity as it is gorgeous design with cute little baskets in aqua and green… I have an idea where it might fit soon, but in the meantime is just adored as part of my precious Doll Quilt collection.
The back is black on white little dots and the quilting is just lovely!
At first I liked the back better as I felt a little ovewhelmed by the black on the front and who can not love this quilting… The picture does not show its beauty properly…
Thinking about this now and looking at this picture I see negative space, and the baskets are somehow washed-out, which adds interest in a special way.
This made me think about the way I design my quilts and how different it is from this one. So many new thing to try…
I might make it a white twin some day…
Tags: Doll Quilt Swap
Here is the orange invasion in my studio… Slow but inevitable – it covered the pink…
You can see how sweet it was in the beginning and now it gets definitely orange…
This is my first big log cabin project and I love it.
This is the first round in the whole project that looks like one colour all around. It is now though.. the yellows break the orange round a bit and I like this.
One round more and the block will be all pieced and ready…
All the blocks are ready now – 9 more than the ones shown here
Latest progress. Half of the blocks seem to be all pieced and ready. Will be sure when the other half reaches this stage too.
Starting with something crisp and making it washed out, disordered and vintage looking… twice! … was nice thing to do. LOL
New fabrics for second half blocks’ second stage are all cut and ready to be sewn too. Maybe tomorrow.
Tags: log cabin
Before the washer.. no wrinkles yet, but still pretty.
It is washed and dried now and I love the final result.
Had not taken any pictures of the wrinkled quilt yet though – a dark gloomy day yesterday and busy, busy day today….
More about this Improv style experiment is blogged here and here.
I definitely see some more to come pretty soon. Just after this one.
Tags: patchwork
I started a new quilt yesterday! It is a simple log cabin in Improv style. I really enjoyed making it so far. Look at it!
Here is how it appeared today strip by strip. The first picture below shows yesterday’s progress.
It went so fast today!
I pinned the blocks on my board. It is not a design wall but served as one today…
It is intentionally two part quilt – two different types of blocks – orange and red centers. They will not be arranged like this though, nor they will look like this when finished…
I had an assistant and this made the piecing more interesting.
You can see the next colours to be added to this blocks below. Picked by my talented assistant of course!
In a week of showers and a day of even more showers, this felt just lovely!
Looking forward to sewing more tomorrow.
