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ordered on 2012, made in 2013 – lollipop II quilt

My first “big” quilt of 2013 is finished. It is a custom order from a client in Germany that liked my original Lollipop quilt, but wanted it wee bit larger and in orange/purple hues. I have suggested to use fabrics from the Notting Hill collection by Joel Dewberry in magenta. Wonderful fabrics and the colors are just fantastic. Size : 153 x 213 cm / 60″ x 94″.

lollipop II decke

This time it was straight line quilting in horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions using the walking foot. A nice to change to free-motion quilting.

lollipop II detail

The backing and binding are finished using in the same orange fabric.

lollipop II back

 

I have made 2 blocks from the Swoon pattern. They will make a cushion cover for my Mum.

swoon blue

swoon yellow

Looking forward to the weekend – lots of time to sit at the sewing machine !

Happy sewing, Barbora

another quilt finished and quilt care labels

I am so happy that I have finished the lap quilt for my mum. 500 little squares found their place in this quilt. Cutting square size is 2 1/2″, finished square size is 2″.  It turned out nicely, the colors are not exactly from my usual palette, but I think the result is nice. It is actually the first time that I have used so many fabrics in gray and black. I have quilted it with a straight line pattern in diagonals. I have used a dark gray quilting thread from Gütermann Sulky in 30 weight. The binding is completely machine stitched from back to front.

happy birthday, mum

 

happy birthday, mum detail

 

happy birthday, mum backing

 

Another issue that kept me busy the last week was designing labels for quilts. People have asked me how they can wash a quilt without ruining it. So I decided to make some labels with not only quilt care but also quilt name and size. Inside the labels is free space for a personal note.

quilting label front

quilting label care instructions

This Tuesday I go Prague, looking forward to that! No sewing or quilting for the next 10 days, Barbora

avenue loop – another quilt is finished

We had some rain over the weekend. So this was the right time to finish my Avenue Loop quilt. Somehow I got hook on half-square triangles. An easy unit, but thousands of possibilities how to finish a quilt design. Here I used Freshcut collection by Heather Bailey. Love the colors and the fabrics were nice to work with.

Size : 55″ x 69″ or 140 x 176 cm. Quilting detail of the center piece – once more meanders with loops. This time I used a white polyester quilting thread So Fine! #50 from Superior Threads.

Backing has a favorite fabric from Freshcut collection and a soft aqua hue in solid.

Double folded binding is machine stitched from front to back using the soft aqua solid fabric.

As mentioned before we have had some rain lately. The dog stayed inside :

and the cat took over his kennel and enjoyed the soft land-rain, fresh air and the peace outside :

 

Happy quilting………..

 

mint meets pink – this quilt is finished!

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

floating colors – another finished quilt

This week I did my best and finished the quilt. Yesterday my sewing machine had a hard day – quilting for hours. I enjoyed sewing all these parallel lines. It was something else than free-motion quilting. I like both techniques and think it is always good to change the routine. The quilt size is 40″ x 54″.

My next project is a quilt with the same pattern but larger, with more blocks. This one I shall definitely finish with free-motion quilting. So that I can compare the same pattern but different quilting techniques.

Can’t wait to start with it!!