Dec 22, 2023
playing around with a new quilt idea
playing around with a new quilt idea
HST Wedding Quilt
Last May (2019) I finished up this quilt for some friends our ours who got married. I wanted to make a quilt for them that had the same clean lines and modern feeling as their house and decor.
I made a bunch of HST blocks and arranged in a kind of gradient, mostly greys and neutrals with a few pops of colour in between.
Around that time, I went to a workshop with the Ottawa Modern Quilt Guild, with Johanna Masko on hand quilting.
I brought this quilt along to work on, and added hand quilting to several blocks around the quilt.
I finished it off with straight line quilting (my favourite!) and contrast binding.
I was really happy with how it turned out and the recipients really liked it too!
Quilty Details:
* 70” square, for a large lap quilt
* Mix of fabrics, mostly Kona Cotton and prints from Art Gallery Fabrics
* Backing and binding is a Guicy Guice Quantam print from Andover
* Straight line quilted at 0.5” spacing, using Wonderfil 40-wt thread, with additional hand quilting using DMC Perle cotton #8 size
I liked how the hand quilting was actually not too visible from afar, but gave a lot of texture when you have it up close, on your lap. I think I’ll try to add more of that hand quilted touch on more projects in the future!
It has taken the best part of the afternoon to quilt the borders. I still have the corner blocks to quilt. When I did my post run exercises this morning I discovered that my arms were pretty sore. No surprises there, they will be worse tomorrow, but the end is in sight.
I have just finished quilting the centre of the quilt top. Just the borders to go. I think my arms may drop off. It was quite a workout wrestling that quilt through my machine. I will think about how to quilt the borders in my dreams tonight and get on to that tomorrow. If my arms will move of course.
The weather was pretty average today. After some shopping this morning I headed into my sewing room to continue wrangling my large batik triangle quilt through my tiny machine. This quilt is a wedding gift for my son's best friend who got married back in April. I have never missed a deadline by so much. I am really struggling to get it done. Son said just aim for their first anniversary Mum it will be cool! I'm aiming son!
The quilting is not going so well on my batik triangle quilt. Time for a cuppa and a re-think.
Getting set up to quilt the batik triangle quilt. I think I will need more lighting and I have lost my Hera marker. I have also been distracted by the rugby, Opps.
I had some time this afternoon to work on the quilt back for my triangle quilt. Sewing a straight line is not my strongest quilting skill so I always have a tape guide. Today I was experimenting with using a magnet for a guide. It worked pretty well. The tape may be on borrowed time. Daughter arrived for dinner and photo bombed my quilt picture. Isn't her hat cute and oh so warm, perfect for this freezing winter weather. I got the quilt back made so next step will be making the quilt sandwich. Getting there!