Posts tagged quilting
Sweet Hearts Quilt
146 months ago
by Erin
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you might remember this tweet:
Well, it didn’t go as quickly as I had hoped since I got sick in the middle of it. But now it’s finally done! Introducing my latest quilt: Sweet Hearts!
Sweet Hearts completed
The quilt finishes at 46″ by 42.5″ and is machine appliqued and quilted. I wanted to do all over free motion quilting on it, but that’s outside of my abilities for now. So I did a grid pattern for the quilting, with a vine decorative stitch in the purple border. It’s a preset on my sewing machine. 
I used variegated thread for the quilting, a first for me. I liked how it turned out. I used fabrics from my current fabric stash to complete it (yay!). I really had a fun time making this one, I love all the different hearts.
One of my favorite blocks, I love the background fabric. So cute!
The back of the quilt was made with some pieced flannel fabrics I had in my stash.
The back of the quilt.
I just love these two fabrics, they’re so cute!!
Amazing what you can find in the remnants bin!
Another part of the quilt I love is the label:
Forgive the smudging, protecting baby's identity!
I printed out the text for the label on a piece of paper using cute fonts, and then traced over it on the piece of fabric to make the label. I like how the font matches the hearts on the front. I used some ric rac I had left over from Liliana’s quilt as a border and voila! A very cute label.
One aspect of the quilt I’m not happy with is the binding:
Yellow binding.
I wanted to use the red polka dot fabric, but it’s quite a large print and I didn’t think it would translate well into binding. I also thought since I had a pretty bold print for the outer border, I should use a solid for the border. The only solid I had that I thought would match OK was this yellow I got from my mom’s stash. Lesson learned! Don’t settle!
Overall I’m pretty happy with the way this quilt turned out. I hope Mama and baby love it!
My first Quilt Show and a WIP
07 months ago
by Erin
Last Thursday I went to the Orange County Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival at the Orange County Fairgrounds with my mom. We had an awesome time! I found a couple of doilies for doily quilt I want to make. There was SO MUCH fabric I wanted to buy, too! But I figured I have enough in my stash, so I was able to hold myself back from buying any. Mostly I was inspired by all of the amazing quilts there. I would have loved to take pictures of them, but pictures were restricted.
Heart Applique
Here is a block from the current quilt I’m working on! They’re all applique hearts. I have all the blocks done, I just need to do the borders and the backing and I can start quilting! This is a quick one.
New Fabric! (Stash #5)
17 months ago
by Erin
Something came in the mail yesterday…
I'm a sucker for cute & neat packaging!
My fabric! I won a giveaway over at Stitched in Color for this GORGEOUS set of Michael Miller fabrics from Marmalade Fabrics!
Gorgeous!!
I received 1/2 a yard of each fabric. I can hardly wait to use them on something!! In fact, I’m going to save these to use on a quilt for MYSELF! Can you believe of the 10+ quilts I’ve made, I haven’t made any for myself yet?? (I can’t believe it’s been so many, I only started this hobby less than two years ago!)
