My Quilting Plan

Some of you wondered how I'm planning to quilt the Imagination 1/Soft quilt.  I have a couple of ideas in mind and drafted them for you in my highly sophisticated drafting program called powerpoint :)

Circles seem to be the dominant theme, I don't know if I'll get the column-theme in there too, or leave it at the pieced columns.  A work in progress ;)

Call Me Crazy :)

EDIT:  The blue in the background of the quilt isn't as different as it looks here - it's actually all the same shade, but I think there was a slight different  on the front vs back of the fabric, which I didn't notice at the time.  Not this bad though :)

As you can see by these strange lines, I basted with thread instead of pins this time.

Because I've decided that I need to spend LOTS of time with this quilt since I'm in love with it and want to bond properly.


So I will be hand-quilting this puppy :) Wahoo!

I just went to my former quilting teachers to borrow here snap-quilt-frame - I'll give it a try, since this quilt is a bit big for lap quilting



Here's the backing fabric - it's just as soft as the front fabric, though it's not from the same line. It was a steal at 3$/m!


Good night lovely quilt! (The instructions said to remove the snaps so the quilt can breathe, oh dear :) I assume they mean 'so it doesn't crease' haha!

I've Been Hit Again (of Soft Quilt Part 2)

By inspiration...

I found a new, very cool blog called Film and Thread and this post in particular showed a cool cool quilt. I thought that I'd like to try what I call an unbalanced design, where there either isn't a pattern or it doesn't continue over the whole quilt.

So I came up with this - I called it "Imagination 1" as I'm obviously planning #2, #3 etc as well :)


In my mind, I saw a white background with maybe blues, turquoises and browns, or maybe a MODA charm pack for the circles, for which I've found a tutorial here.

However, the decision was difficult until I remembered my 'soft' fabric!


I blogged about this AGES AGO! Way back when I first started. I loved the fabric for its soft feel, even though it's just normal 100% cotton. The fabrics aren't purely one colour though, the green for example has some orange threads woven in, it gives the fabrics much more vibrancy (more than you can probably detect on the photos :).

Anyway, this was to be the fabric for "Imagination 1" and I went about chop-chop-chopping :)

The whole thing was a figure-out-while-you-go project, mostly fun, sometimes frustrating, and it ate up my entire weekend, but gosh, that quilt needed to get out of my system!



I very nearly ran out of blue, I have a few 6" pieces left over, but that's it. I had hoped for the quilt center to be much bigger, but really wanted the blue as background.


At this stage, it measured about 40" x 50", but I'm putting light green (4" wide) and dark green (6" wide) borders around it, so it'll get up to a decent lap quilt size.

Even just the center was bigger than the current lap quilt I'm using, which is just a teensy bit too small for my likes.

I'm very very excited for this quilt to get finished. I have lots of green fabric left for the backing, and this soft quilt will be mine and mine alone!

Soft Quilt Part 1

These fabrics are so soft, and the colours are much more intense than on this photo. I think it's called Cotton Basics, and the interesting part is that two colours make up each fabric, one is the vertical weave, the other the horizontal weave. That's why they look vivid and dynamic.


No clue yet what this is going to be, but I'd like to make something along the lines of MelanieMade's Summer Quilt, but instead of a strip across the quilt, I'd like to use larger patches and have one big area in the center of the quilt, or slightly off-center. We shall see... these fabrics are too nice to rush into a quilt.