Sunday, October 16, 2016
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Quilty Pleasures: Scrappy Trip Around the World
Many of us love to start quilts. The thrill of making something new, with different fabric, and learning new techniques certainly gets me going. I'm gung ho all the way, up to a point.
Finishing in a timely manner is another matter, altogether. I am a paralyzed perfectionist, so finishing means I must accept any mistakes, real or imagined, if the task is complete. So there it sits.
That's why there are about 15 neatly stowed away project boxes illustrating this petrified perfectionism. But I'm working on it.
This photo was taken a little over a year ago, when I had almost all the blocks complete.
Other, more juicy projects intervened, so it isn't until this month that I finally finished my Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt. It's from a Bonnie Hunter tutorial.
I have to say it was quite the stash buster, but of course there's always more where that came from.
It's queen sized, with enough to cover the pillows and to have a ten inch drop off the sides.
The batting is bamboo, something I haven't chosen before. The quilting was done by Michael Siewert at ThreadBear, my local quilt shop in Las Vegas, New Mexico. If you don't live nearby, you can mail your quilt to them and they do an excellent job. I chose a widely spaced, loopy design because I didn't want the quilt to be too heavy.
The backing is 108 inches wide, by Kaufman.
The binding is scrappy and machine stitched because it's going to be used a lot. I used this tutorial by Cluck Cluck Sew. In a perfect world, the stitching is unobtrusive on the front, and I am still working on that.
So even if it's not perfect, it's done and I love it and it's on the bed.
Finishing in a timely manner is another matter, altogether. I am a paralyzed perfectionist, so finishing means I must accept any mistakes, real or imagined, if the task is complete. So there it sits.
That's why there are about 15 neatly stowed away project boxes illustrating this petrified perfectionism. But I'm working on it.
This photo was taken a little over a year ago, when I had almost all the blocks complete.
Other, more juicy projects intervened, so it isn't until this month that I finally finished my Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt. It's from a Bonnie Hunter tutorial.
I have to say it was quite the stash buster, but of course there's always more where that came from.
It's queen sized, with enough to cover the pillows and to have a ten inch drop off the sides.
The batting is bamboo, something I haven't chosen before. The quilting was done by Michael Siewert at ThreadBear, my local quilt shop in Las Vegas, New Mexico. If you don't live nearby, you can mail your quilt to them and they do an excellent job. I chose a widely spaced, loopy design because I didn't want the quilt to be too heavy.
The backing is 108 inches wide, by Kaufman.
The binding is scrappy and machine stitched because it's going to be used a lot. I used this tutorial by Cluck Cluck Sew. In a perfect world, the stitching is unobtrusive on the front, and I am still working on that.
So even if it's not perfect, it's done and I love it and it's on the bed.