The March quilt guild meeting was this Tuesday, and for once I brought with me some finished projects!
First off was my "The Story of My Day" by Anni Downs of Hatched & Patched.
This has been a project that has been in and out of time-out for the past year. I made all the stitcheries pretty fast - and spent a lot of time figuring out how to put it all together. I started with a scrappy border using a bunch of mini charm packs I had, but didn't think that worked. Ripped back to start.. So I added a border around each stitchery alternating in blue and grey, and decided to add a square of light and brown fabric here and there (in a pattern) to make the mini charm squares fit better with these new borders. Well, that obviously didn't work... Ripping again.. Tried again.. Left it for a while to see if I felt happy with my choice.. Considered adding the title as a side border, but before I came as far as to try that I ripped it all back to the beginning. Found some yellow bubbly fabric that I felt went well with both the borders in grey and blue and with the colours of the stitcheries (and the background fabrics, of course). Ok, that worked. Now what?
My mom gave me a pretty large piece of blue fabric with small white swirls. I auditioned this together with a couple more alternatives here on the blog, and the swirly blue won! I think it looks pretty good!
Unfortunetly there wasn't enough of the blue fabric for the binding, so after I quilted it (I've just recently started to manage the whole stippling quilting/wandering/wiggly path thingy) I set it aside again for a couple of days while I thought about the binding. I pulled out 2-3 alternatives (yellow, grey, blue) and decided to use the same blue fabric as the inner borders around the stitcheries. It looks pretty good - and another of my started projects have been crossed off the list. *yay*
The second quilt I brought with me for show and tell, was "Cat'o'lantern" from one of Fat Quarter Shop's seasonal specialities boxes - the "spooky box".
Cutting and sewing the cat was like a dream. The pattern was well-written and the instructions clear. The result? Wonderful!
I debated wether to quilt it using the glow-in-the-dark thread that came with the box, but felt a bit unsure of how the thread would appear in the darker parts of the quilt.. so! As with "The Story of My Day" it was finished by stippling quilting (what is the correct word for this?) using a grey multicoloured thread. The binding is a black IKEA cotton fabric. I do like a dark binding on my quilts.
So that's another started project crossed off the list! *yay again*
We've had a birthday in the family! A is now 8 years old and I don't understand where the time went..
I had to go to the office on the morning of her birthday, so I decided to leave a little surprice for her at home. In kindergarden they make cardboard crowns for the kids for their birthdays. Last year hubby and A made a cardboard crown together, but for some reason a crown was never brought up this year. So I decided to try and see if I could make her one without her noticing.. TwoTinyMakes have a trio of patterns for epp crowns which are just genious. I used the pattern for the big crown, choosing colours and prints I thought A would like (which I also liked, haha) and finished it the night before. I added a glass bead on top of each point - otherwise the pattern is as the pattern is written.
She loved it! It even went with her to school! (It's a bit big, but there's an elastic in the back which can be modified slightly so that it fits better now - but still able to adapt to size as she grows older.)
Maybe I'll add some more glass beads for next year..
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