This is a really bad photo, the camera had to be returned to its owner.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
From The Beginning
This is the first quilt I ever made (that I remember)
I made this in grade 9 (2000) and I was the teachers pet, and totally got an A for Home Ec. It is a pretty simple pattern, I think it is by The Chook Shed, but a pretty ambitious start for me, all up its a bit shorter than a single bed quilt, to fit under it a bit of curling up was needed. All the fabric for those nine patches was stolen from Mum. Thats right, she had cut out all those 2.5inch squares for something for herself, and I asked if I could use a 'few' of them. I'm pretty sure I used all of them in the end. The background for the fabric was stolen from Grandmar, and most of the fabric for the flowers comes from me, with a little help from Grams.
Quilt#2 is this
It is comprised of foundation pieced New York Beauty blocks, which again, pretty ambitious for me. It was made in grade 10(2001) and again, teachers pet got an A. This is the first time I ever did free hand quilting, and looking back at it, its pretty dodgy.. But there are many things that I look back at and really don't like, like the way I did the binding. The pattern is out of a Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine. Overall though it makes a nice wall hanging and everyone that sees it usually says 'oh how nice'.
Quilt #3
I made this while on school holidays sometime, possibly before the other two quilts, then quilted it I don't know when either, but it was entered into the Emerald Show in grade 12, meaning it was finished sometime before May 2003 and I won the top award out of all the high schools and got my whopping prize of a $10 voucher to Woolies. The fabric for the bright hearts is mostly mine, then the rest was either stolen from my Grandmar, or purchased for me by Grandmar, like the awesome border fabric (Love you Grandmar). The quilting is mostly freehand stippling, in the border it is done so tight that it makes the purpley spots look like trupunto. My mum's friend suggested that I stuff each of them, but because there is an aweful lot of them, I haven't yet. I will one day post a picture of the quilting, but my camera skills arent too great so all the pictures haven't turned out too great.
Quilt #4 was started sometime during grade 12. During this year, seeing as though I was moving from Emerald to Brisbane at the beginning of the next year to start uni and I would therefore no longer have Mum's sewing machine to use, I decided that I would cut my entire fabric collecting into 4.5inch squares and make a quilt out of it. All up, this quilt is about 2.6m by 3.2m, and did not comprise all of my fabric stash (I know, impressive for someone who had only been collecting fabric for 4 or 5 years, with her pocket money). I had enough fabric to add another row of blocks (each set of blocks being about 4x4? I think) which would have made it about 3m x 3.2m but when it was all laid out on our dinning room floor, and it took up all the room, my Mum convinced me I didn't need to add the extra row.
So because of its massive size, I wasn't able to take a photo of the whole thing, so this is maybe a quarter of it. It is quilted all over in a stipple with stars in it. I used tracing paper to quilt the pattern on as I wasn't too good at doing the stars by freehand - I needed lines to follow or else they looked a bit crazy. All in all, it took me about 1.5 years to quilt, mostly because it was done either when I was on uni holidays and back in Emerald, or done when Mum loaned me her machine for a while. I really love this quilt. During the middle of my poor uni years, I would sleep under the unfinished quilt, with the tracing paper still attached, folded over on my king single bed because I was so cold. The binding was finished some time in the start of 2005 I think. Now that I have upgraded to a queen sized bed, I do sometimes wish I had added that extra row, I really like to pull it up and snuggle under it. My one problem with this quilt is that I didn't prewash the fabric (though I never prewash fabric), so I have a fear of washing this and having all those really really bright colours run into each other. I will one day get over this fear, and on that day, a very large quantity of colour catchers will be used and I will wait patiently beside the washing machine for it to finish.
Thats it for now, I need to find some more finished quilts to post, most of them are at Mum's so I might have to begin the very long UFO parade..
I made this in grade 9 (2000) and I was the teachers pet, and totally got an A for Home Ec. It is a pretty simple pattern, I think it is by The Chook Shed, but a pretty ambitious start for me, all up its a bit shorter than a single bed quilt, to fit under it a bit of curling up was needed. All the fabric for those nine patches was stolen from Mum. Thats right, she had cut out all those 2.5inch squares for something for herself, and I asked if I could use a 'few' of them. I'm pretty sure I used all of them in the end. The background for the fabric was stolen from Grandmar, and most of the fabric for the flowers comes from me, with a little help from Grams.
Quilt#2 is this
It is comprised of foundation pieced New York Beauty blocks, which again, pretty ambitious for me. It was made in grade 10(2001) and again, teachers pet got an A. This is the first time I ever did free hand quilting, and looking back at it, its pretty dodgy.. But there are many things that I look back at and really don't like, like the way I did the binding. The pattern is out of a Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine. Overall though it makes a nice wall hanging and everyone that sees it usually says 'oh how nice'.
Quilt #3
I made this while on school holidays sometime, possibly before the other two quilts, then quilted it I don't know when either, but it was entered into the Emerald Show in grade 12, meaning it was finished sometime before May 2003 and I won the top award out of all the high schools and got my whopping prize of a $10 voucher to Woolies. The fabric for the bright hearts is mostly mine, then the rest was either stolen from my Grandmar, or purchased for me by Grandmar, like the awesome border fabric (Love you Grandmar). The quilting is mostly freehand stippling, in the border it is done so tight that it makes the purpley spots look like trupunto. My mum's friend suggested that I stuff each of them, but because there is an aweful lot of them, I haven't yet. I will one day post a picture of the quilting, but my camera skills arent too great so all the pictures haven't turned out too great.
Quilt #4 was started sometime during grade 12. During this year, seeing as though I was moving from Emerald to Brisbane at the beginning of the next year to start uni and I would therefore no longer have Mum's sewing machine to use, I decided that I would cut my entire fabric collecting into 4.5inch squares and make a quilt out of it. All up, this quilt is about 2.6m by 3.2m, and did not comprise all of my fabric stash (I know, impressive for someone who had only been collecting fabric for 4 or 5 years, with her pocket money). I had enough fabric to add another row of blocks (each set of blocks being about 4x4? I think) which would have made it about 3m x 3.2m but when it was all laid out on our dinning room floor, and it took up all the room, my Mum convinced me I didn't need to add the extra row.
So because of its massive size, I wasn't able to take a photo of the whole thing, so this is maybe a quarter of it. It is quilted all over in a stipple with stars in it. I used tracing paper to quilt the pattern on as I wasn't too good at doing the stars by freehand - I needed lines to follow or else they looked a bit crazy. All in all, it took me about 1.5 years to quilt, mostly because it was done either when I was on uni holidays and back in Emerald, or done when Mum loaned me her machine for a while. I really love this quilt. During the middle of my poor uni years, I would sleep under the unfinished quilt, with the tracing paper still attached, folded over on my king single bed because I was so cold. The binding was finished some time in the start of 2005 I think. Now that I have upgraded to a queen sized bed, I do sometimes wish I had added that extra row, I really like to pull it up and snuggle under it. My one problem with this quilt is that I didn't prewash the fabric (though I never prewash fabric), so I have a fear of washing this and having all those really really bright colours run into each other. I will one day get over this fear, and on that day, a very large quantity of colour catchers will be used and I will wait patiently beside the washing machine for it to finish.
Thats it for now, I need to find some more finished quilts to post, most of them are at Mum's so I might have to begin the very long UFO parade..
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
