SEWING POAST
This is another craft post. I guess I make quilts now. I am basically your granny.
This was the first quilt I ever made. :3
It was a present for my friend Holly's little girl, who is now 18 months old. I made it using this charm pack, plus plain cream fabric for in between, plain white for the back, and red-and-white polka dotted bias binding for the edges. I machine-quilted it to start with, then filled in some of the gaps by hand.
Because this was my first one ever, there are a few errors, places where I had to re-sew things by hand later, weird gaps, and places where the machine chewed the thread, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. FIRST GO, you guys. FIRST EVER GO.
Having finished the above, I decided I wanted to make MOAR QUILTS. MAKE ALL THE QUILTS! So I started on two more. One of these was the Death Star I made for my live-in gentleman friend. The other was this one, for my brother.
This picture gives a better idea of the hand-quilting and the backing fabric (although I forgot to take a picture of the strip of colour I put on the back. WOE).
I WILL NOW PROCEED TO BE WANKY ABOUT QUILT DESIGN
OK so. My brother recently moved into a new place. He is living in what is effectively a massive shed in someone's back garden. It is light and airy and I think it's heated, but it has no running water. It is full of plants. It seems strange. Anyway, when he found the place and decided to move there, we had a conversation about it and he said something about living in a sort of indoor rainforest, and wanting to fill it with even more plants and green things and natural stuff.
So when I made him this quilt, I kept that in mind. I picked out a variety of fabrics that didn't necessarily match, although they do more or less coordinate; I wanted to evoke the feeling of being amongst hundreds of different species of plant, all of which coexist even though they look different. (I told you this would be wanky.) I had the same aim in mind with regards to the layout: by using squares set in the way they are, I wanted to give the impression of layers of plants and leaves visible through each other - thick rainforest.
LISTEN I TOLD YOU I WOULD BE A WANKY TWAT
It's a blanket OK
hooray for blankets
This was the first quilt I ever made. :3
It was a present for my friend Holly's little girl, who is now 18 months old. I made it using this charm pack, plus plain cream fabric for in between, plain white for the back, and red-and-white polka dotted bias binding for the edges. I machine-quilted it to start with, then filled in some of the gaps by hand.
Because this was my first one ever, there are a few errors, places where I had to re-sew things by hand later, weird gaps, and places where the machine chewed the thread, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. FIRST GO, you guys. FIRST EVER GO.
Having finished the above, I decided I wanted to make MOAR QUILTS. MAKE ALL THE QUILTS! So I started on two more. One of these was the Death Star I made for my live-in gentleman friend. The other was this one, for my brother.
This picture gives a better idea of the hand-quilting and the backing fabric (although I forgot to take a picture of the strip of colour I put on the back. WOE).
I WILL NOW PROCEED TO BE WANKY ABOUT QUILT DESIGN
OK so. My brother recently moved into a new place. He is living in what is effectively a massive shed in someone's back garden. It is light and airy and I think it's heated, but it has no running water. It is full of plants. It seems strange. Anyway, when he found the place and decided to move there, we had a conversation about it and he said something about living in a sort of indoor rainforest, and wanting to fill it with even more plants and green things and natural stuff.
So when I made him this quilt, I kept that in mind. I picked out a variety of fabrics that didn't necessarily match, although they do more or less coordinate; I wanted to evoke the feeling of being amongst hundreds of different species of plant, all of which coexist even though they look different. (I told you this would be wanky.) I had the same aim in mind with regards to the layout: by using squares set in the way they are, I wanted to give the impression of layers of plants and leaves visible through each other - thick rainforest.
LISTEN I TOLD YOU I WOULD BE A WANKY TWAT
It's a blanket OK
hooray for blankets