Denim + Denyse Free Whirling Single Girl Quilt

Over the past few months I have been participating in the 2019 Free Wheeling Single Girl QAL, hosted by the pattern designer, Denyse Schmidt, The Next Stitch and Sewtopia. I couldn't decide between using my Denyse Schmidt scraps or my Carolyn Friedlander scraps, so I started two different versions.

I managed to finish the quilt top of my DS version in time for the end of the QAL and have recently turned it into a completed quilt.

For the backing and binding I found a few older DS prints in my stash that worked well with the denim I used for the background.

I quilted it with my walking foot in a design inspired by the sectioned curves from a bluprint class with Jacquie Gering and attached the binding using big stitches in a perle 8 thread.

I'm linking up with the 2019 Finish-along Q4 finishes link-up as this quilt was on my list of proposed Q4 finishes.

I now just need to give it a wash and it will be ready to gift to my new niece or nephew, who is due to arrive in the next fortnight!

Kat

Origami quilt

Earlier this week my quilty friend and pattern designer super star, Alyce of Blossom Heart Quilts, released her lastest quilt pattern: Origami. I was lucky to be one of the quilt pattern testers and made a large bed version for my mum (the only person in my family I hadn't made a quilt for yet).

I used a mix of fat quarters and quarter metre prints from the Satsuki 2 Collection by Robert Kaufman to make my blocks. I love how the blocks are cleverly designed to look like a double-sided piece of origami paper. They also come together super fast.

The pattern also includes an optional paper-pieced crane block, which I placed right in the centre.

The quilting took forever but I am really pleased with how it turned out, and how well it suits the theme of the prints.

Head over to Alyce's blog to pick up the pattern and see what the other Origami pattern testers made.

I'm linking up with the 2019 Finish-along Q4 finishes link-up as this quilt was on my list of proposed Q4 finishes.

Kat

November One Monthly Goal

It's been a while since I joined in the Elm Street Quilts One Montly Goal, but I really need to get some things done and could use a little extra motivation :)

This month my goal is to quilt my baby Free Wheeling Single Girl quilt. I finished the top last month as part of a QAL and I'm keen to get it finished.

The first step will be to choose a backing. I was hoping to find something at IKEA (I love IKEA fabric for backing because it is 60" wide), but didn't have any luck there. I may have to piece together a scrappy backing (something I usually try to avoid), but at least it will match the scrappiness of the top.

Kat