July Quilt Adventures - Part Two
The second part of the making of my July quilt was the most unexpected, I could have.
The top was almost ready when I had to chose the fifth fabric and I picked a fabric ready for the blue quilt - it matched the blue flower print and added a nice border. The all chopped and sliced flowers dilemma was quick and straightforward to solve - fabric paint. I drew a bit of flowers and aided a little colour to the printed ones here and there. A few little touches made it all wrap together beautifully.
The pattern that was on my list for years - the blooming nine patch - was spectacular on others quilts with solids /or with flowers and batiks/, but they all had one thing in common - lots of circles /rectangles actually/ of patches. With limited quilt size and no motivation to go under one inch patches, I had too little fabrics and "circles". Too little for gradual change and contrast in one area. So I chose focus circle instead - blue flowers. It looked quite more disintegrated before piecing them together. So I liked the top, the back and the sandwich were ready, the thread was perfect - so far, so good.
The unexpected part was the quilting - I did not work.
I tried roses and daisies and forget-me-nots, and swirls... And liked none of them
The back was kind of acceptable, but the front was almost ugly... I need quilting to warp it together texturally and none of them did.
It took me 2 days to take out the stitches of half an hour quilting /done in bad light and with no glasses/. I had never ever spent so many hours removing stitches.
I can't show you more now as I post daily on my other blog and need to keep it secret until Friday.
Come back on Friday for the finished quilt! And tomorrow for some flowers!
The top was almost ready when I had to chose the fifth fabric and I picked a fabric ready for the blue quilt - it matched the blue flower print and added a nice border. The all chopped and sliced flowers dilemma was quick and straightforward to solve - fabric paint. I drew a bit of flowers and aided a little colour to the printed ones here and there. A few little touches made it all wrap together beautifully.
The pattern that was on my list for years - the blooming nine patch - was spectacular on others quilts with solids /or with flowers and batiks/, but they all had one thing in common - lots of circles /rectangles actually/ of patches. With limited quilt size and no motivation to go under one inch patches, I had too little fabrics and "circles". Too little for gradual change and contrast in one area. So I chose focus circle instead - blue flowers. It looked quite more disintegrated before piecing them together. So I liked the top, the back and the sandwich were ready, the thread was perfect - so far, so good.
The unexpected part was the quilting - I did not work.
I tried roses and daisies and forget-me-nots, and swirls... And liked none of them
It took me 2 days to take out the stitches of half an hour quilting /done in bad light and with no glasses/. I had never ever spent so many hours removing stitches.
I can't show you more now as I post daily on my other blog and need to keep it secret until Friday.
Come back on Friday for the finished quilt! And tomorrow for some flowers!
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