Monday 31 October 2011

.Working on a quilt.

It rained all weekend, which was good for me because I desperately wanted to get started on a new quilt!

This was my weekend project.
 
You may recognise the fabrics as being the same as the new cushion covers I recently made for the loungeroom.  The mis-matched eclectic mix of prints and colours are still making me smile, so much so that I decided a matching quilt would be fun!

I did have a think about perhaps using a more elaborate piecing design (like triangles...super elaborate on my behalf!) for the quilt, but didn't have quite enough fabric to make the quilt a big snuggle under size so stuck with squares.
 
I love each of these fabrics so much that I'm happy to let the fabric shine rather than the focus be on the piecing design.
Jaron did ask me during my cutting and sewing marathon what "pattern" I was working on and when I told him I was making a quilt just for fun I could almost hear him think psycho woman to himself!!
Crafting gets a bit like that, don't you think?  Sometimes I actually do feel like a bit of a psycho, cutting up fabric and sewing it back together just for fun.  And to prove it...my secret reason behind making this quilt is so that I have something to do (i.e. hand-quilting) when we sit down and watch a movie or something on TV!
So now, I'm waiting on backing fabric to arrive and then have to think about how I'm going to quilt it...Perle 8 cotton?  What colour?  What design?  Any ideas??

8 comments:

Sarah Craig said...

How about circles in the squares, or centered over each intersection of four squares?

Bindi said...

I would go for some sort of all-over flowing curvy design like hearts or waves or something like that - totally different from all the straight lines of the squares.

Nettie's Blog said...

definately red thread and perhaps a circle design ...love the colours and the fact that it is such and easy pattern...

Jane said...

I love that mix of fabrics, I could just stare at it for ages! Pretty but not too pretty, you know?

Melissa said...

Hahaha....I actually laughed out loud with the 'psycho woman' remark!! Then to top it off you said that you made it so that you have something to do when you sit down to watch a movie. Yes, maybe slightly psycho!!!! haha, you know I'm joking!! xx

**nicke... said...

such a beautiful mix of fabrics. i would quilt in a perle 8... white.

Kate said...

Ooh, a quilt! I love the simplicity of simple squares. As for the quilting, if it's for the fun of it I would stick to straight line quilting rather than circles or some design where you have to turn the quilt a lot. It's so much more enjoyable to just quilt in a straight/ish line. Have fun!

Oh, and I would probably stick to perle 8 white too.

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that is so awesome!!

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