My submitted blocks shall be featured on The Modern Quilt Guild on the 14th, 17th and 19th September.
I am really happy about it, there are so many nice blocks. It will be hard to choose the few blocks for QuiltCon Raffle Quilt. Elizabeth Hartman of Oh, Fransson! is doing this. The other ones shall be used to make quilts for the Austin Children’s Shelter. A very good idea!!
Until next time, Barbora
This and next week I am on an unexpected visit in Prague. My father Vaclav died this Tuesday after a short illness at the age of 85. I came to be with my mum in this complicated time. My parents got married 1951 and celebrated this summer 61 years together.
So, no sewing and not a lot of blogging in the next few weeks. I need some time to understand this situation and learn to live with it.
B.
In the last post from Dianna in her blog diannajessie I came over a button to Lily’s Quilts and the Fresh Sewing Day or Small Blog Meet where bloggers can share their recent work.
Here my finished quilts over the last month or so ……..
For this quilt I have written a PDF MINI tutorial
So this will be more an internet Sunday than a sewing Sunday. Looking forward to visit other listed blogs!!
Have a nice day, Barbora
Yesterday I started with the free-motion quilting and today I finished the good piece with binding.
I tried the loop quilting pattern and I am happy with the result.
One more thing : take out the basting pins well ahead when machine quilting. I wasn’t very careful at one point and here is the result :
Don’t ask me how I did it. Thanks God nothing happened, but imagine when the needle breaks and doesn’t stay in the pin. Normally I never sew over any pins when piecing, this has worked well for me.
Thinking now about my new project, Barbora
This week I wanted to finish my Avenue Loop quilt, but I wasn’t in the mood to work on a large quilt. Saturday I decided that it is the right time to carry on with work and prepare a quilt sandwich. To my surprise I did not have enough batting. Now I have to wait for another week till the shop opens after holidays. Since I haven’t been on the sewing machine for some time, I really wanted to work and make a smaller project (to fit in my rest batting). I found a nice quilt tutorial at Hyacinth Quilt Designs called Sanctuary Squares. I downsized it and used fabrics from the collection Freshcut by Heather Bailey. As solids I chose a bright fuchsia and aqua in light blue/green. The top as well as the backing are now ready, tomorrow I shall make the quilt sandwich. I tried to take a photo this afternoon, but we always have wind – so everything was moving.
Still thinking about the quilting pattern and I am looking forward to finish it. Anyway, the best part with each quilt is binding (at least for me). And I hope I can bind this one later this week.
Happy quilting, Barbora
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