First Love - Quilt Top Completed

My first English Paper Pieced quilt top is completed, it is the baby quilt "First Love" designed by Lynette Anderson. It is a free pattern on her web site.

The close-up shows more details of the stitchery. I used only fabrics from Connecting Threads for this quilt.

This was my ALYoF goal for December; I managed to piece the EPP, finish the stitchery and join the two parts together. In addition I pin basted the quilt sandwich, and it is now ready for hand quilting.

I will enjoy staying inside working on hand quilting in this cold winter time.

Linked up to December's finishes party .

2012 Aurifil BOM Quilt - Finally Finished

Last night I finished the last stiches on the binding of the wall hanging, and I took it outside for a picture taking today. We have had a very strange winter this year, normally it would be very cold with lots of snow. When I took my walk in the forest today, together with DH, it felt like spring. No snow, birds chirping, and 5 degrees C. That made it a lot easier to complete the photoshoot.

The wall hanging is approximately 40" x 50" and it consists of 12 stitcheries from as many designers, one for each month of the year.

The spring-like conditions were a perfect frame for displaying the quilt. The sashing in between the framed blocks is a white-on-white fabric. Then a 1" black inner border, and finally a wide wood-like outer border. It is almost like a wooden frame.

Here the quilt is on display in the kind of spooky light in among the dense trees.

Here is a detailed picture that shows one of the blocks and the quilting. Each of the 12 individual blocks are framed by dense straight line quilting in white thread. That does not show off very well in this picture. The outer border is quilted with rectangular lines, which gives a good contrast to the wavy design of the fabric.

Notice the December block which is almost 3D with the yellow braids of the skier.

The Snow Bird in the January block was singing in the forest today, but there was no snow to make a snow man and -woman for the February block, like there was last year.

The binding is a green, black and gold striped fabric I bought during summer. It may be a little difficult to see this on the picture, but in real life it almost looks like a golden frame on the outside of the quilt. The backing fabric also fits the golden binding.

With this quilt I have finished my third UFO this year, and I also completed my February Goal of 2014 A Lovely Year of Finishes.

Linked up to
2014 A Lovely Year of Finishes ,
Richard and Tanya Blogs ,
Crazy Mom Quilts .



Happy quilting!

A Lovely Year of Finishes - February Goal Setting Party

I have come far into my UFO busting this year, and this month I will combine the two. My 2012 Aurifil BOM has been waiting way too long to qet quilted. I assembled the blocks into a wallhanging, and last week it was basted and is now ready for quilting. This is the way it looks right now with hundreds of pins:

 

My goal for February is to get this quilted and bound.

 

You can see more details of the quilt top in an earlier post here .

 

Linking up to A lovely Year of Finishes 2014  .



 

2012 Aurifil quilt top completed!

It took me a few months to assemble the quilt top for the 2012 Aurifil designer of the month , stitcheries from 12 different designers; one block released each month last year.

I really enjoyed making these blocks, and I am very pleased with the resulting quilt top. Here are some pictures showing off detailed stitcheries, and the complete quilt top. The final assembling and quilting is standing next in line.

Here the top is in all its glory, with a kind of wild "wooden" fabric as the surrounding frame.

Slow working...

Finally, one week into April 2013, I finished the December block of the 2012 Aurifil Designer of the Month . It took me an enormously long time to complete this stitchery, and I can't really blame it on anything particular. Maybe it was just me running out of steam... Anyway, here is the last stitchery of this BOM.

I liked the 3D-effect of the braids on the skier. I have a fairly good idea on how to put all the 12 blocks together, and I will do it as soon as possible.

Right now, I have started on my second barn of the Barn Along; to be continued...

Aurifil BOM November

Now there is only one month left for this BOM. I am curious to see what the last stitchery will be. This month's block makes me feel the cold and wet wind of November. The design has caught the feeling!

Block #4 in Christmas Mystery is completed

4 blocks out of 5 are stitched, and I am waiting for the next issue of Quiltemagasinet in December (?) to get the last stitchery design and the assembly plan for the complete quilt.

Lots of other projects to work on until then, I won't be 'unemployed'!

Aurifil BOM for September

Outside we have real fall weather, with lots of rain. What is better to do in these circumstances than being indoors creating? This month's block came out yesterday, and now it is finished. It is a sweet block that is really appropriate for the season. I made my own 'variegated' thread by using one strand of two different colors in the stitching. This gives more life to the leaves, in my opinion.

Here I have put together the 9 blocks that have been published so far in this BOM. I think they look great together with the different blue/green sashing. This will be a nice quilt to put up on my wall in a few months time!

Friendship Embroidery Mini Quilt Swap

Today I finished my Mini Quilt for this swap. The swap is hosted by Quilting Gallery

I am really pleased with the result! This is my first time in a swap. The guidelines were to use the stitchery which is in the center here, and then create a quilt around it. The size of the mini quilt had to be between 12" and 24". Mine measures approx. 13" x 14". If you look at my banner on the blog, you may recognize the fabrics from the quilt in the middle, the mini is made completely of leftovers from my charity quilt 'Walk in the Woods'.

Today I also received my partner info, so now I know where to send my mini quilt. It will be shipped in September, sometime.

I would not mind doing a swap again, because this was a fun project!

Block #3 in Christmas Mystery is done

The third stitchery for the Christmas Mystery project is completed, now only two more remains. Looking forward to the finished result.

Aurifil BOM for August

This is the Lily that was this month's design in the Aurifil BOM. I changed the colors from the original layout, and I think I got a good-looking result of the block. I love how the white colonial knots in the frame look like a row of tiny pearls!

Quilt top finished

I finished the quilt top for the charity quilt late last night. Well, finished and finished, I still have to add some eyes and bow ties for the cats, but that will have to wait until the quilting is done.

The weather today was much more co-operating, grey clouds, but no rain. My old, dead plum tree acts as quilt display.

I would say that this is a colorful quilt! Siw at Quiltegården helped me choosing thread for quilting. The quilting will have to wait a while, though, because first I have to assemble another Halloween top since the bag of fabrics I got was huge!

I guess both quilts will get a pieced backing in order to get rid of most of the leftover fabric. It is fun to make charity quilts like this, but after two Halloween ones, I think I will I enjoy returning to quilts more my "own" style.

A quick update

Today I finished assembling the blocks of the Halloween quilt 'Simply Spooky 2' by Red Rooster Fabrics, and now I have to cut the inner and outer borders and finish stitching the whiskers on the cats in the corner blocks.

The weather today was not perfect for picture taking, there were quite a few raindrops during the photo session, but the session was very quick, so not much harm was done to the quilt top.
I have to try to complete the top today, because I have to buy batting and decide on how to quilt it tomorrow. More updates will come...

Fresh sewing day

Due to vacation time I and being far away from my sewing machine, there have been few finishes in July. I managed to finish a mug rug at the end of the month, though, a mini Great Granny along block.

During summer vacation I completed a couple of stitchery blocks, one for a summer table runner, and another for a Christmas mystery project.

Colors of Summer

After returning from my summer vacation, my fingers were itching to start working with quilting and stitchery again. The first project in line had to be the Aurifil BOM, because I had to finish the block before the end of the month. I think it really turned out nice, with lots of great summer colors.

Second mystery block completed

The first one you can find here . I'm looking forward to stitching more blocks, and finishing up this project by Christmas (hopefully).

First summer stitchery completed

I finished the first stitchery of two that belongs to a table runner designed by the Norwegian designer AnnAKa. The pattern was in a previous issue of Quiltemagasinet, and I can honestly not remember the name of the design. I have not traced the second stitchery, that will have to wait until after the summer vacation.

But, I have traced another stitchery design that I brought along, and I will tell you more about that later.

In the mean time I am enjoying the warm weather, it is 36 degrees C right now, that corresponds to 97 degrees F. The humidity is about 50%, so it feels like 45 deg C (113 deg F).
HOT!

Summer Flowers

I finished the stitching yesterday, and put the sashing on today for my June block of the Aurifil BOM. I am very pleased with the result!

Now I'm half way through!