Between my two lovely friends Kat and Kelly, I received in the mail two charm packs of zippity doo dah fabric designed by Sandy Gervais from Moda.
Using the disappearing 9 patch method as shown here
disappearing 9 patch tutorial by p.s. i quilt, I made a gorgeous throw for the winter months. This is the first real quilt I have attempted and thus started my love for patchwork quilting.
I laid out all the squares out. Having 5 light 4 dark, or vice versa
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| I sewed 9 squares together |
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| Chopped and twisted them around like so |
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| A pile of squares after chopping |
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| Then the fun began - laying them all out and trying to get the right colours in the right places. |
Sewed them together - voila!
I had to use one extra square of material as there weren't quite enough from the 2 charm packs, but it worked out well and as you'll see below came together as I used it in the border.
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| I love the quilting design Dawn used. The flowers and the butterfly suited the design perfectly |
I had so much fun with this. I love piecing the quilt together - working out where the colours go best.
Comments
*pets teh pretty* *bounces*
I.. I just .. it's brilliant, the border is very professional and how did you get that pretty flower design on the fabric?
By the way, I thought I would try to identify the foot on my sewing machine.. I googled 'images of sewing machine feet' and I had no idea there were so many! I still don't know what I've got, LOL.
Once I finish the Kaleidosceope, of course!
I'm afraid my quilting skills are limited to either straight lines (and then not very straight) and piecing together the coloured bits ;) - not like Kelly's quilt, she actually quilted the squiggly lines herself. She's braver than me.
My current project I will be quilting it myself. Of which, when finished I will show here.
Thank you for your encouraging kind words.