Edited: pictures of the finished quilt here ! If you have not made yet tilted blocks, maybe someday you would like to try them, it's fun ! I will show you how to sew the quilt below. Here is the way I pieced this quilt top. The top has 42 (6x7) 12" blocks, 4" borders and measures about 80"x 92" (2x2.3 m). For the center of the blocks I used this striped fabric (Michael Miller) … [Read more...]
The second UFO
My intention was to make this quilt for Alexa's sixth anniversary, but it did not came out the way I wanted... Too much green for a little girl that loves pink:( I don't like it... I have to order new fabrics for my stash and make another quilt for her. Now I have 30 blocks and no desire to piece them together ! Edited to add: Thank you all for the great suggestions ! Unfortunately, I … [Read more...]
Tutorial strip quilt II
Follow this strip quilt tutorial and sew this quilt with me! I pieced it in a day, I quilted it in the second day and I added the binding in the third day ! Quilt size: 62 x 86 inch; Finished block size: 12 x 12 inch; Number of blocks= 5 x 7 = 35 (if you need a larger quilt, piece more blocks ). This quilt don't have borders; if you need a larger quilt, you might add borders; because you … [Read more...]
New Quilt
I made this quilt 2 years ago.My sister Oana loves blue color, so she wanted this quilt !I love to make stained-glass quilts ! This was the last one I made. After this I fell in love with trapunto and shadow trapunto so I abandoned this technique.Am facut acest quilt acum 3 ani.Surorii mele Oana ii place culoarea albastra, asa ca l-a vrut ea !Imi place sa fac acest fel de quilturi, gen vitraliu. … [Read more...]
My husband steals my job / Sotul meu “fura meserie” de la mine
I have wanted for years to make a quilt for my husband. I can’t manage to make it for his birthday so I planned to give the quilt on my birthday !I have worked on this quilt in the last month, and a couple of days ago I finished the top. And I didn’t like it ! I wanted to make for him the most beautiful quilt, but it is not !After I made so many wholecloth quilts, I think I lost my ability to … [Read more...]