Thursday, August 28, 2014

Scrap slab

I'm loving the look of my finished scrap slab quilt top. 92 1/2" unfinished. Now making the backing in a particular design from 10 1/2" squares...



Happy sewing
V


Monday, August 4, 2014

Baby quilts


This quilt was made for Fletcher. The idea was inspired by a quilt photo of a Thomas Knauer quilt in the book Quilting with a modern slant by Rachel May.


To mix things up a bit, I left one of the blocks out and featured some different quilting. I love the finished product.




This quilt was made for Thea. The petals are needle turned appliqued onto the background fabric. 36 petals using 6 different fabric repeated 6 times. The blocks where the arranged to be balanced and the way I liked them to be. 


The centre was then sewn on point with the background fabric to create a floating design. The idea was pulled from a few different designers but the main inspiration was derived from Elizabeth Hartman's Craftsy class. Elizabeth's blog is Oh! fransson. Go check it out. Awesome quilts and lots of inspiration.
 

The quilting design for the petals was picked from a stencil I had and traced with a frixion pen. Easy easy easy way to draw designs on.





The filler was an evenly spaced doodle design inspired from Jenny Pedigo from Sew Kind of Wonderful's blog. The last photo is the back of the petal quilt. Easy 10.5" squares sewn 4x4. A fun and easy way to use up fabrics I'm not so in love with anymore, or fabrics not so on trend ;).

Just need to get a label on the petal quilt and gift it to Thea who is about 5 weeks old now.

V