quilt

I make comission quilts. I make quilts for babies, kids, weddings.  I take my time designing, ensure everything is made precisely and beautifully, then packed with style and shipped on time. I never forget it will be someones quilt and will warm both his body and soul but it is a project and order at the same time. Until it is received.

My customers sent me this marvelous picture of the wedding quilt they ordered few months ago. We came up with the design together. They knew what they want. I have not met them or the wedding couple and enjoyed the prоcess a lot. It was all made with great care and packed and sent just in time for the wediing. I knew it was well received. But when I received this picture and have a look at it now, with the lady wearing natural colours and really great soxs … It all looks so warm and natural. The quilt has a life of its own. And I am happy I was part of its very beginning.

I am making some progress. I can not believe it, but it happens. I spend approximately an hour or two a week quilting it - tiny, tiny steps progress. That is why I can hardly believe I am making any progress at all - I hardly quilt it.

The machine applique acts as quilt-as-you-go here and since I finished applique, approximately two years ago, this little quilt was stored. I decided to try hand quilting this summer and quilted the blue curves. I changed my needle somewhen in the middle and it turned out the first one was absolutely wrong choice. The new one allowed much more stitches per inch. This makes the whole quilting very “unique” as the stitches density is quite variable and getting higher. I even tried variegated thread, which also adds “uniqueness”. Well, I like it and this is all that matters now. Hopefully it will be ready for Christmas.

If you are my partner and you find my initial likes & dislikes you received insufficient, here you can find more. I have already posted some of my favourites but could not stand it and I am showing more here. This way when I need an inspiration I can have half of them on these two pictures!

Note: I will try to explain I generally like, but I do not stick to this only. All of following things here are just some vague ideas to help you find a starting point for your creativity.

USE & WASHING:

The quilt will be used for display for now, but I prefer it to be washable if possible /it may find a doll later on/. However, if you thought of something artistic with felts, etc, why not? I want you being happy while making the quilt. This matters and makes difference to the final result. Read the rest of this entry »

First of all, a big “Thank you!” to all of you, who commented on my #100 give away post - you are all so kind! I will reply and show all the cards later today!

Back to the swap now. I was quite vague in my likes & dislikes in the sign up message. I would like a quilt that is made with enthusiasm, care and love. So I thought I will not specify what I like /and I hardly can do this/ but give my partner absolute creative freedom instead.

However it may be difficult to start sometimes, so following a Flickr discussion idea, I am showing you here some of my favourites from the previous rounds.   These are only 36 as this is the maximum I could include. This is the only reason! They are all soo beautiful!

You can click on the button on the side bar to visit the Doll Quilt Swap blog. I modified it a bit.

And here you can check more on each of the beautiful quilts below. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a quilt I finished last week. I will tell you something about it here, but first of all I would like to thank all of you who commented my #100 give away post! I did not expect so many and all lovely comments in a night. I did not! Thank you for your support!

Back to crafting now - this quilt is a customer order. The design is based on stickers design. I used their shape as a starting point as this quilt will complement the stickers placed on the wall. This was a nice one to work with - bright colours and clean look. I enjoyed the applique process and could not stand the embellishment options, so I added a bit of embroidery design on a flower and a little cute lady bug flying around the flowers.

This quilt make me whip some similar doll quilt to hang on my wall. Maybe, some day after the holiday season I will. I can write it down in my list now - it is too long already.

This quilt is a wedding one too. It was a custom order wedding gift.

Piecing the bright top was a real pleasure. I was lucky to have all this colours around me in a dark week, which was quite stressful too. I had to design and make it in a hurry so I proposed a simple layout. The customers had clear idea of the desired style and look, so it was great to work on this project and I did feel lucky to work on such a bright and almost provocative quilt.

I like the mix of small scale, large scale prints, solids and abstract prints. I think it turned out quite cheerful and warm quilt. It was supposed to be full of colours energy and joy, and I think it is. Hopefully the recipients feel the same way.

This is the quilt I received. It is made by dearfii.

I had no chance to make a picture right after opening the envelope in the evening - a nice and colourful envelope…. and was too busy to post the pictures. It was a really hectic week so I sent the “thank you” e-mail only and quick blog entry of excitement - it took it only 5 days to arrive this time.

Fi also sent me some extras - buttons, a fabric piece and a felt apple  and a scotch tape with cars - it was the first car stamped one here. My kid like it a lot! Thank Fi! Read the rest of this entry »