Friday, January 9, 2015

Gemmed – a baby girl quilt

After facing the epic fail of the bearding quilt. I quickly decided that I needed to make a second, a better quilt for my new (and first) niece.

My sister did NOT want all those pink and rosy colours so I opted for low volume fabrics with some colour mixed in.

wip

Trimming blocks in girl-ish fabrics – that does not happen often over here… I might even have enjoyed the tedious work. A bit.

trimming

I let the blocks form little wonky multicolour gems. With just a bit of pink or violet or rose. Then I backed it with a multicolour dotted flannel, chose a variegating Aurifil thread, grading from blue over pink into white, and free motion quilted it with “organic” straight lines…

Karla Quilting

… and little petals within the gems.

Karla Details of Quilting

It makes a lovely design on the back of the quilt (if I dare say so myself):

Karla Quilting detail

This time I added the lettering after I finished the quilting. First and last time. Period.

Karla Applique

Do I need to mention that I bound it with a triple-zig-zag-stitch?
No. I always do and always will.

Karla Binding and Backing

BUT I will mention how much I looooooove the binding I chose (shameless self-praise). Following the low volume theme, I chose a fabric stating “security is a thumb and a blanket” (must be the Peanuts / Charlie Brown?!). I really love the effect it has on the quilt and how it matches a baby quilt in particular.

Here’s another shot:

Karla Binding

Well, here it is, the “remedy” for the bearding quilt:

gemmed

Well, this was a lot of recap in a short time.
Now I desparately need to sew - otherwise I won’t have anything new to show you!

Happy quilting!
Christine

12 comments:

  1. Such a pretty quilt! I'm sure your sister will love it!

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  2. a very sweet girly quilt without an excess of pink, and I love the FMQ petals, thanks!

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  3. It's beautiful! Low volume is a fav

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  4. What a pretty quilt! I need to try one of these :)

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  5. Noch ein toller Baby-Quilt. Der hier gefällt mir auch gut, aber erst mal kommt der Elefant...

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  6. This is just lovely. Great touches of colour with the low volume prints. Love the binding and the quilting. i might have to make one for me ;)

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  7. Love the Sparks of colour against the background. How do you do the binding? Have you written a post about it previously? It looks really nice - how does it look on the back?

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  8. What a pretty quilt! I love the little coloured gems, they're so effective on the low volume background and the binding is inspired.

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  9. Yes, I love your binding too...

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