I'm back!!!I finally finished the third & final quilt for my Niece a few weeks back. A bit late for Christmas but I managed to get it done before her 5th birthday! YAY
again it folds up into a pillow or "quillow". And is backed with cotton flannel and the same pink binding as the other two.
This was actually a very quick quilt top to make. (I have blogged about it earlier) The quilting was a pain however.
I saw a wavy pattern on a quilt in sew hip which I really liked. I couldn't find a wavy line anywhere (online or in any books) so I drew my own using a glass. However, the waves were too wavy & to quilt them involved LOTS of pivoting & turning so I ditched that idea and tried to do free hand waves. That didn't work either. So after two lots of quilting and two lots of unpicking I was back to square one!!! I ended up doing a mixture of stitching "in the ditch" and echo quilting.
Then came lots of machine problems. My machine was playing up so I sent it in for a service. In the meanwhile I borrowed my mums, which also played up. Then came Parent's evening, report writing and end of year assessments!
DH then commented on the fact that I was either sat at the computer doing "School" work or I was at the sewing machine sewing, and we rarely had an actual conversation beyond "how was your day?" So I had to abandon my poor machine for a brief spell in favour of the husband! lol Now the workload has tailed off a bit, I am back sewing :) guilt free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also managed to find some time to do another Saturday quilting course. "quilting on the go"
I need to take some photos and then I can share this fab method with you! No more wrestling large quilts under the machine. You make the quilt a block at a time, bast & quilt the block and then sew the blocks together already quilted!
hopefully you wont have too long to wait lol...
but then again ;)
