Pink flowers garden quilt for my a beloved grand niece
10-06-2013, 07:00 AM
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Pink flowers garden quilt for my a beloved grand niece
I am a self taught quilt top piecer, but not yet a quilter.
I have been at this for about three years now. I have been very enthusiastic about purchasing fabric- probably too enthusiastic. I have enough fabric to keep me busy for about five years.
The fabric I used in this quilt was an EBay impulse buy- I just loved the colors and prints. The fabrics were 13 Laura Ashley fat quarters. I put them away, and when I came across them, I wondered what the heck I would do with them.
During the past summer, the fabrics were calling to me, but I have three grown sons. To whom would I give a quilt is these shades of white, pink, purple, and green? I have a darling grandniece who lives with her family on the other side of the world, in Africa. So I began to cut with her in mind.
I used block patterns from Quilter's Cache, a website run by Marcia Hohn, to whom I am greatly indebted. For the sashing, I should have cut the fabric on the bias, but that is part of my learning process.
My quilter, Cheri Gabrielsen, stitched it all over with dragon flies in bright green thread. I love the whimsy of the dragonflies flitting through the flower garden.
Thanks for looking and commenting.
I have been at this for about three years now. I have been very enthusiastic about purchasing fabric- probably too enthusiastic. I have enough fabric to keep me busy for about five years.
The fabric I used in this quilt was an EBay impulse buy- I just loved the colors and prints. The fabrics were 13 Laura Ashley fat quarters. I put them away, and when I came across them, I wondered what the heck I would do with them.
During the past summer, the fabrics were calling to me, but I have three grown sons. To whom would I give a quilt is these shades of white, pink, purple, and green? I have a darling grandniece who lives with her family on the other side of the world, in Africa. So I began to cut with her in mind.
I used block patterns from Quilter's Cache, a website run by Marcia Hohn, to whom I am greatly indebted. For the sashing, I should have cut the fabric on the bias, but that is part of my learning process.
My quilter, Cheri Gabrielsen, stitched it all over with dragon flies in bright green thread. I love the whimsy of the dragonflies flitting through the flower garden.
Thanks for looking and commenting.
10-06-2013, 12:24 PM
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You have a very cute quilt there. Just a few ?s and thoughts. I like gingham used on the bias. it takes a lot of starch and pressing the fabric rather than ironing it so as not to distort it and looks great that way.
Now, if you had put the sashing on the B would you also have put the border and binding on the bias too? In my eye that would keep the quilt consistent.
As you did it, it is perfect. Not that gingham has to run in the same direction but on this little charmer, it works perfectly.
peace
Now, if you had put the sashing on the B would you also have put the border and binding on the bias too? In my eye that would keep the quilt consistent.
As you did it, it is perfect. Not that gingham has to run in the same direction but on this little charmer, it works perfectly.
peace
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