Saturday, December 10, 2022

Jelly Roll twist

What a week this was!  Daughter-in-law had a back operation but got up and going so fast afterwards, however, she may still not drive a car which is rather frustrating for her little ones as no one wants to sit at home all day during school holidays.

She asked me if I would take her to have the staples in her back removed and the day before I had to take her to the hospital, our youngest was admitted with an unknown fewer.  We’ve had our fair share of hospital visits.

This poor quilt, therefore, was on the frame for days as once we got from the hospital we would have load-shedding and with that done, I had to do whatever needed electricity, such as cooking, before I could even think of quilting.

Friday morning, I decided that come hell or high water, this quilt needed to be finished and I got going.

The quilt will be used as a beach blanket and will still be fitted with waterproof backing.  I chose a motif called ‘water’ for this one.




Sunday, December 04, 2022

Off-centre square in a square quilt

I got so busy this week I almost forgot to post about the last quilt I did.

Many moons ago I made something similar except that my centre squares were not all the same size, therefore I used a different technique than the quilter who made this.  Seeing this quilt, reminded me of the one I made, and this is the second time since I stopped piecing that I had the urge to just make one more.  The technique I used is especially helpful when you want to make a quilt for a child, using pictures (different sizes) from a panel or maybe pictures from different fabrics. Maybe once this house is fixed, I will get there again.

This quilt was however truly beautiful, and this was also the first time I got the request for the geometric design to be quilted.  This motif was taught in my third course by Adria Good and can be somewhat tricky in trying to keep the lines straight.  When quilting, you do not look at where you are quilting but always somewhere ahead and this is when crooked lines happen, but it is after all free-motion quilting and not done with any rulers.

Just look at all these fun colours.