Treasure Treadle

This is unfortunately not mine. I found it when I checked out the apartment next to my grandparents. It's being renovated after the previous tenant died of old age, and some of his stuff is still there, including this old Singer sewing machine. I've seen people rave about these treadles on quilting blogs but don't know anything about them myself. I like he idea of sewing without electricity, though...

Border choices

These quilts definitely need peppy borders, they're too dull, not enough popping colour in them.

I've experimented with some colours, trying to pick up the red in one of the fabrics.

Nice match for the orange-red in the colourful square

Too dull

Too red

Too busy

First one it is then :)

And for the other (light version) quilt, something to pick up the green squares would be good. Let's see what the stash has to offer!

NaturalFeel: Light

Here's the light-coloured sibling!

More orangey than I had expected...

NaturalFeel: Dark

Tadaaa, here's the center of the first quilt top finished...

It'll be fun to quilt in the large background areas!

Layout time

When you have 4 of everything and many of one thing (i.e. the beige filler squares, since I didn't have enough light-coloured charms for all the 9 patches), layout is always fun. 

I do try not to have the same pattern next to each other, and to get a bit of balance. I find taking a photo and looking at that helps to get an overview...

Now cut the rest of the brown background squares and rectangles and I'm good to go...

NaturalFeel Babyquilts

Those baby quilts I mentioned the other day will be following this single Irish chain pattern and will be hand-quilted just as this quilt from a few years ago:

I felt like using natural colours and picked some left-over charms. Can't remember the name of the pattern, MODA something :)

There'll be a dark version (brown background with beige chain) and a light version (beige background with dark brown/green/orange chain).

It'll be lovely to be working by hand on a small quilt again; I'm really quite looking forward to the handquilting! My finger tips have gotten awfully soft :-)

Something is happening...

... a little bit of quilting!

Do you know how -- as soon as you don't have something any more -- you want to use it? Well, I've loaned my sewing machine to a friend who wants to fix her curtains. So of course, now I have the urge to quilt.

In the absence of my machine, I sorted through patterns and fabrics (especially my charms collection) and prepared the pieces for a couple of baby quilts.

More to follow on these later...

And the Warm and Fuzzy quilt I posted about last --- well, it was missing 2 corners. Yes, I just had to cut 2 triangles and couldn't get myself motivated... until now!

So as soon as my machine is back, this quilt top will be finished, and the 2 baby quilts will be assembled!