Flower Quilt (the front)

Here is the top of the charm quilt I entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival in the last post. I absolutely adore this quilt too.

As you can see in the close-up I didn't do a lot of quilting (only some outline quilting), I am always afraid the quilting might ruin the quilt, as I do everything by hand I cannot make it look as neat as I would like it to be.

close ups:



And as you can see in this picture the quilt is fully reversible with the charm quilt in the back. SO I have two quilts in one. hurrah.



I hope you like this one too. and it is sooooo comfy. and really big too.





Let me know what you think.

Nadine

Blogger's Quilt Festival

OK, I might as well. I wasn't going to participate at first thinking I am not really qualified, but as the rules state anybody can enter I then decided I should be nice and mingle with all the great quilting bloggers at the Blogger's Quilt Festival.



So here is my entry in the Blogger's Quilt Festival, one of my favorite quilts which showed me how easy it is to surprise myself.




It is made up entirely of charms which I really didn't like and wanted to get rid of. It is actually the back of another quilt and ended up looking better than the front. SURPRISE!

Simple but beautiful, that's my motto. I have realized I prefer the simpler designs and modern fabrics, they go better with my life and my flat, so there will be more of those on the blog.

Making this quilt also showed me that even the ugliest scraps of fabric can look beautiful if combined in a quilt.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" or something like that. So there you go.

I hope you like it.

Nadine

La Dolce Vita

Look what has just arrived. I ordered it from Saints and Pinners and it arrived within 2 days. Hurrah. Isn't it beautiful? makes me want to go to LICC in York and have some yummy ice cream.

Oh, I can't wait to work with this. So many projects waiting.

This just makes me happy, no matter what the weather :)

My Fabric Wishlist

Consider this indulgence in Quilter's P*RN or call it what you will, I get very excited when I see these fabrics and one day, yes, one day I will own them and then cut them into pieces and sew them back together. Oh I can't wait.

These are the designers lines I am craving the most at the moment, apart form Kaffe Fassett Shot Cottons, Free Spirit Knit solids, or Kona cottons.

Patty Young's "Flora and Fauna" (and above)



Denyse Schmidt's "Hope Valley"



all fabrics by Heather Ross

"Far far away"



"Mendocino"



"West Hill"





check out Elizabeth's beautiful Heather Ross quilt on Oh, Fransson!



and Laurie Wisbrun's "Tufted Tweets"



check out Ashley's beautiful quilts made from this fabric (on Film in the Fridge)





These are absolutely beautiful. well done Ashley.

I wonder what I would do with these fabrics. Maybe one day I'll find out.

Now how do you feel? Has your heart started beating faster? Do you feel warm and dizzy now? Well I do.

This is the stuff of dreams.

What now? (some fabric love and a cry for help!)

I am still working on 1 2 3 no 5 other projects but I can't help myself already planning the next one. This is my favorite part, choosing fabrics and deciding on a design. And I have finally cut into my Amy Butler stash. Yum. I decided to cut 2,5 by 9 inch strips but now I can't decide what to do with them.

A simple strip quilt? Or a log cabin quilt? Or maybe something different? Any suggestions are welcome.

pinks:


oranges and browns:



greens:


blues and more greens:


oh and then some more:

Zest and Dawn

I am working on so many projects at the moment and just noticed I can't actually blog about any of them because they are all presents and shouldn't go online until they have changed ownership. So for now I am showing you another finished quilt, one of my favorites actually.

A very large reversible quilt called Zest (front) and Dawn (back) made up mainly using Kaffe Fassett and other Rowan designers' fabrics and some matching batiks and whatever else I could find that would go well with the colors.

I absolutely love this quilt and it was so much fun to make.

And it contains all my signature colors that can be found in a lot of my paintings too: turquoise, orange, red and lime green (and some fuchsia as well).

Love it!




and the back

Sneak Peek

Hello everyone, today you'll only get a sneak peek at one of the things I'm working on.

Sorry for being so slow, but as I only get an hour or two a day at the most to work on my projects and the weekend is off limits because I am giving all my attention to my other half and since I don't own a sewing machine and do everything by hand it takes me ages to finish something. I'll report back when I have a few more photos.

Sorry for the bad quality pictures. The sun is scarce at the moment and I tend to use my mobile to take pictures. Better ones coming soon.

Lots of Love
Nadine




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