Posts Tagged ‘quilt’

The TeaCup Quilt

August 10th, 2010

I started writing this post a week ago, at which time I started it with the line, “Well August is upon us. How on earth did that happen!?”, and now we’re two weeks in. How on earth did THAT happen?!

Back in April we (read: our craft group) started working on a teacup quilt. It was one of those things where we loved this pretty tea party fabric, and wanted to make a wall hanging out of it, but it didn’t belong to a pattern we liked (or as far as were aware, any pattern at all).

So Nana set out to make her own pattern with the odd shaped sections of fabric we had. Lets just say that it has NOT been an easy task, hence it being August already, and we’ve not started it.

Last Tuesday at craft group we decided to bite the bullet and sacrifice parts of the fabric in order to easy the planning and quilt making process.

I think it’s going to work well once it’s all put together. We’ve divided the quilt into three sections, so tomorrow we plan on putting the first section together, and then I can start the embroidery for it as well.

This is going to make my list of quite big projects rather long… Hopefully I have them all finished by the end of the year!

Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!

Tags: planning, processpledge, quilt, Sewing, teacup, wall hanging

Posted under Craft, Project, SewingView Comments

My Latest Quilt

July 15th, 2010

So I haven’t forgot about the process pledge that I took while I was making my polka dot dress (remind me to wear it next Tuesday when I go to craft so I can show Nana…). My latest projects is this Nancy Nalvorson wall panel quilt. I LOVE Nancy Halvorson designs, they really are so beautiful, but it is awfully annoying how the panels never seem to be straight.

I’ve had a bit of difficulty trying to get the borders to sit straight to the print, which has been frustrating, but I think I have it as good as it gets…

I chose the thin yellow border and the thick pink border. I’m not sure what I’ll do for the binding, possibly the same dark green from the panel. A few others ladies from craft group, including my mum and nana are doing the same panel, but different borders. I think we might have all chosen different colours. I find it really interesting to see the different borders on and how it changes the look and feel of the quilt overall.

My biggest goal at the moment is to hand quilt everything… kinda a huge task, but ultimately worth it. I’ve started going around the edges of the main shapes, and going over all the writing. I love to free-motion hand quilt the whole thing, but I’m definitely not good enough yet. Maybe one day!

So that’s where I’m up to with my quilt. Now for some photos!