One of my friends sent me a few strips of fleece and yesterday I made a blanket for my little nephew. These are 5'' squares. I stitched them with long stitches and the widest seam allowances. I pieced the blocks and finger pressed the seam allowances open then I stitched them down. No bulky seam allowances on the back side. Some of the blocks distorted more than others so that I adjusted … [Read more...]
Christmas Ornaments
I am in love... with this pretty little thing I made last night... but especially with Fast2Fuse interfacing...This was the first try so I made it small... Fast2Fuse is a firm and heavy interfacing, is fusible on both sides. After I pieced the front, I used it to cut the interfacing and the backing.I fused the backing to the interfacing and finished the edges with zigzag stitches. Then I fused the … [Read more...]
Sneak Peek of My New Pattern
These are the small and quick versions, made in Christmas fabrics. Bored by free motion quilting, I quilted them with the walking foot and loved it. Hopefully I will finish it soon! … [Read more...]
An Aid for Free Motion Quilting
Super easy - free motion quilt following the fabric's pattern ! This fabric is from the Mixmaster-Scribbles line by Patrick Lose for Robert Kaufman. I love, love, love all the Mixmaster fabrics designed by Patrick Lose. It was fun and easy to quilt this piece! This fabric is from the Ginkgo collection by Kona Bay. I love striped fabric too, it is so easy to quilt it. I … [Read more...]
Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Fall 2010
Amy is organizing again the Blogger’s Quilt Festival - a great opportunity to see new gorgeous quilts and make new friends. Thank you Amy for creating such a fun time!I've decided to share this quilt with you (some of you already know its story) because this is one of my favorite quilts.Ten years ago I discovered quilting on Internet, absolutely by chance. I live in Romania and here quilting is an … [Read more...]
Christmas Gift Bags- Decorations
Last week I made my "Pockets with Love" in Christmas fabrics. Practice is the best teacher! If you bought my patterns, here are a few more tips. For a set I used a little heavier interfacing than I usually use and I broke two needles. If you want to make some pockets, stitch using Jeans/Denim needles #90/14. If you want to use them as gift bags or as decorations, you can make them … [Read more...]
Fabric boxes
Do you use interfacing? For making bags, pouches, bowls? Maybe garments? If your answer is positive, I am sure you have many leftovers, small scraps you don’t want to throw to the trash. I consider interfacing (especially the heavyweight one) as valuable as the fabrics I use in my projects. I am happy I found a way to use every bit of it ! These boxes use 5 squares of interfacing. I made … [Read more...]
Labels for quilts
One lesson I don’t want to learn: to add labels to my quilts. I have never paid attention to this detail. Probably because the permanent markers I have are not so permanent…I think that after washing the writing will fade anyway.But my friend Mihaela helped me to become a serious quilter. A few weeks ago I received from her a beautiful box and inside of it I was so surprised and excited to find a … [Read more...]
“Nicole” bag
I am glad to show you my latest bags! I modified my bag patterns and I made two extra large totes. These are my gifts for the new moms in our family. This is the "Nicole" tote bag. I named it after the name of my youngest sister. My nephew will come into the world tomorrow so she needs this bag. You can see its size, it's really big. 17.5-22'' (top and bottom) wide x 14.5" tall x 5" … [Read more...]
The quilt for my hubby
He waited for it for 10 years ! But the waiting was worth it ! I used cotton batting, I love the look of the quilts made with cotton batting after washing . The quilt is huge, 80x92 (2x2.3 m) and stitching all those pebbles took me 3 days, and a lot of thread. I used the three green spools of King Tut. Detail of quilting. It was very easy to … [Read more...]
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