Showing posts with label Quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quilts. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 October 2009

To cheer myself up, I’m making something for me!

Hello chaps, things haven’t been too rosy lately and since the clocks changed it’s been gloomier than ever – not a mood conducive to creativity to be sure.

Despite that, I’ve decided to start a new project - something cheery, time consuming, and (probably most importantly) that will use up my mountainous stash. No, more importantly, that will cheer me up!

What’s that you say? How about a quilt? Yesiree! A few days ago I came across this tutorial from Cluck Cluck Sew (serendipity?) on how to make double hourglass blocks the easy way. I love her quilt and decided to use up my blue and red scraps to make it.

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After a few hours, I had cut about a million 2” strips, sewn them together and made a template to cut them into this:

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I still have a lot of cutting to do, at the moment I have enough triangles cut to make a very tiny cot quilt.

The pattern should look like this:

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But I’m thinking of making it more like this:

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What do you think?

I also went charity shopping this morning so I have a few vintage finds to show you too (If I get a nice day to photograph them)

Beccy

Sunday, 14 June 2009

I'm a lazy poster... but I finished something!


Ok, I know... I haven't updated in a while. I suppose Christmas took over, then learning to drive (I passed, yay!) then it was teaching, assessments... you get the picture.


So I thought I'd share something with you that I finished. Oh yes, I finished something alright. Well quite a few things acyually, they were Christmas presents after all :)


This is the quilt I made for my mum (my first ever quilt). It is a lot thicker than a regular quilt... Winters in England can get quite chilly you know... so that made it quite hard to sew through my cheapy machine, but it was worth it. I used Amy Butler's Daisy Chain, with French Wallpaper and Royal Garden Clay (for a bit of extra added orangyness) for the colour blocks and Kashmir Olive for the binding. The backing is zingy Erin McMorris Leaf Dots in orange.
It's not the most complicated quilt in the world, but be kind, it was my first try :)