авторски пачуърк създаден в България : patchwork + gifts: handmade in Bulgaria
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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.
It is so fresh, it makes me smile!
Here it is in its cheerful glory! Showing it all as I promised.
Lovely prints, simplest design you could think of. But still with its special style. It is not simple squares, though the prints are gorgeous enough to make it this way juts a perfect quilt. The added cream corner adds something really special. And if you are not careful enough, you can miss the corner thing – it is so perfectly made.
Being in Bulgaria and being more conservative, that I would like to be with overseas fabric purchases… I am absolutely happy to have the designer mix in this quilt on my wall. This could not be more perfect! Each little square is gorgeous!
I loved the ducks, the moment I saw them, when they started popping on the blogs. The aqua flower is one of my faves, the apples are just gorgeous and I have just received a pincushion in another shade few weeks ago, the tweets.. I am still not sure what I love best of this collection..
Well, the rest is lovely too. The ones I mentioned are just the ones this some more personal story behind… And the Midwest /if I am not wrong with all the excitement… / have not noticed the yellow /I am more in orange/pink. green/brown there/ and it is lovely!
Did I mention how perfect the binding is?! I realize now I have no back picture… Will fix this tomorrow.
The quilt is on display now. The firs thing I see every morning heading to a big cup of tea. Thank you Linda!
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…
Just a few minutes before it’s officially all sewn and ready for its first wash. It has a long и long story – took me months to complete.
I made it in little lovely sessions spaced quite generously… It was hard to space them – found working on this one fantastic… I first waited for batting, then for backing, had to make some things in between…. Followed some strange but exciting dilemma solving pattern, you can read about here.
Attracted the binding this Friday in a hot, hot day with almost unbearable humidity and a tropical shower…
It needs some thread clipping, label and wash and will start looking for a baby to hug it.
Here comes the good old spring patchwork top – quilted and almost ready.
And my second process thoughts here.
I had some time wondering, choosing and not feeling sure how to quilt it. As far as it is a true Improv quilt – no plans, charts, sketches, swatches… just sewing patches sections and mixing them all together… I thought the quilting should follow this same manner – quilt as you go. Not in the technical sense, but quilting my present mood. Logically /my logic/ it called for straight lines or even wonky straight lines, or a complex all-over design, or curvy quilting based on the patches, or.. so many options…
Going back to the original strategy – make it totally Imrov… I just quilted flowers, as it is flowery prints quilt, bold patches and random layout and it just felt like meant to be quilted in flowers…
Great process thought isn’t it? Ignoring any plans and just letting it happen LOL
The next big question was the binding choice. It was unexpectedly easy to solve – took less than a minute. And was followed by 10 minutes checking different options today… before I decided I will stick to the first thought anyway. Which reminds me, the back fabric dilemma had exactly the same process and outcome…
I had to wash and cut the binding now. Getting closer to the washing/drying part…
A few words about inspiration. I have not quilted in a month or so and this felt really great! And for this quilt … I had been collecting patches for a project like this for quite a time when I joined the Project Improv. Started this quilt partly for the long planned quilt, partly unable to wait till I make a quilt like this.
I am about to start my Doll Quilt Swap 9 quilt and getting excited and inspired is one of the best parts in it.
Going to check all the inspiring blogs I am following this weekend and start it next week. Off to sketch the current most liked DQS plan now.
The blocks sorted by colour and laid on the table.
A moment of a tidy, ordered studio…
I try to be as organized as possible.
However making a quilt is so interesting and I am so anxious to get to and complete the next step… than often the tidying up just has to wait for awhile till I finish the sewing session…
This quilt is almost ready now.
We are now having a long weekend on the occasion of St George’s Day May 6th – 4 days weekend in May feels good. I will finish it right after its end.
Love the way the contrast and subtle blocks mix together. It is a wedding quilt and it makes it special.
Tags: patchwork, quilt, wedding quilt
I sent my package yesterday. It was sent to a far away place. I think I never sent to somewhere else actually. Most places are far away anyway in swaps. I think swap mamas might have tried to make distant partners to make the package even more special. Holding something from the other side of the Earth feels special enough even without being a marvelous quilt.
I felt quite intimidated this round. My prather is a talented prson, whicjh was more than expectad in the swap participants company. However I have alway liked her creations a lot. Anxious to see if it will be liked. HOping it will be!
And anxious to receive the quilt made for me…
I finished this bright stripy square on March 1st, not able to mail it the same day because of some very urgent and lovely things to do and attend. Than I was busy with the national holiday. March the 3rd is the National Holiday of Bulgaria, but we had a celebration that kept me busy on March 2nd… And I was in bed on March 3rd with a virus. Did I wrote DQSs tend to coincident with extremely busy periods?… yes, it is true! And it is not just the end of the mailing period… busy, busy, busy for a month…
Making this one was great pleasure. I machine pieced and quilted this time. Only one totally handmade thing – the labeling.
Hope my partner will like it. It will be in the mail on Monday. When I am back to normal.
More pictures on my Flickr.
I finally managed to start it! It is almost finished actually.
But I see a prominent Doll Quilt Swap routine here… every time I sign up, an extremely busy period starts… So far I have always been able to send in time or almost in time. Hopefully I will send precisely on the deadline this time.
As always I started with a long ideas, deciding and un-deciding… period. It is not easy to make something you would like to do and seems your partner will like too. I started with some ideas and had to leave them. The official quilt is in my latest quilting trend – solids, so it felt great and hopefully my partner will feel it too.
It is almost quilted now.
