Why "cheating"?
It kinda feels like it...showing all these pretty pictures of quilts that were made months ago and were beautifully quilted by Emily. Really all I've done lately is sew on binding!
Hardly done any sewing at all in the last 6 weeks. Molly has started insisting on rising between 5am and 7am and I just cant handle days started that bloody early! I'm mostly falling into bed the second her eyes shut for the night (between 7 - 8 pm). Its not her fault, the teething is worse although still no sign of gnashers, and - big news - she grew too big for her crib and we had to get the cotbed. She is a BIG girl. Not sumo big (as we never call her...honest) but just BIG! And heavy, oh my word she's heavy. Our imminent house hunting is taking a bit of a brutal reality check for me as we're thinking we'll now have to try and look mostly at bungalows, which I've never liked, since I cant really carry Moo up stairs very well now, and she'll only get bigger and my hip will only get crapper. Phooey.
Anyway. My man is home now, for a while anyway, and I hope that in between house viewing and selling and stressing I might get some decent sewing time. Fingers crossed!
Meantime, back to the pretty pictures!
I consider this giant triangles quilt made with Koi and purple solids to be a lesson in less is more pattern wise. The plan was for giant triangles floating on the purple background. Then I had the brainfart of hiding two stars amoungst the triangles in solid. I like the quilt fine, but I dont think my pattern really worked. I think the two ideas together almost cancel each other out. Something else too.... I absolutely love every print in Koi, but.... well.... to be honest I'm not that keen on them all as a collective whole. I'm wishing I'd broken my bundle up and added it to stash to use seperately. I mean, there's not one print there that I dont wish I had more of, but however much I look at it all together here, something doesnt feel right.
I consider this beauty to be a lesson in "fast and simple piecing isnt always actually fast and simple".... Its a great pattern (not mine) and the instructions were simple enough, but wowza. It took aeons of cutting. Got a bit monotonous to be honest! It was done in a chain piecing method, which you'd think right away would make it easier than hunners of 2.5" squares, but after each stage of chaining there just seemed to be soooooo much trimming.
And finally, this one here is almost done. It was my challenge myself quilt. I love Anna Maria Horners "Innocent Crush". Love it. I've stashed it away for so long. However my bundle seemed to be taunting me as it languished unappreciated in a drawer for years. I just couldnt for the life of me settle of a pattern to use it in. Or a background to use with it... In the end, I went with a Moda Grunge brown. Yep, BROWN... As I said. Challenging myself, by going with a massive bit of my least favourite colour. That said, the grunge is probably the nicest brown I've seen, it has touches of red and slate in it, so has a wonderful texture.
So. Its almost done. Quilted, as usual these days, by the lovely Emily. Just waiting for me to bind it, then I'll do a full reveal. If we ever get a dry day again this year... Tomorrow we're off for the day to check out some places to live, and would you believe it, today they were hit by massive flash flooding from the tail end of Hurricane Bertha. I actually saw a house we had been considering on the news with a river running past the front door... Wont be checking that one out then.....
