Playing with Hexagons

New design to play with!

Made with EQ, of course.

 

Have a happy sewing week!

Geta

WIP

I am still wondering how my quilt will turn out! For years I thought that 10 colors in a quilt are way too much, now I am wondering if these colors are enough.

But I make this quilt for a young man so it can be too colorful, right?

I can't disturb my hubby with my noisy sewing machine now so I will have to wait until tomorrow to see! Can't wait to add the black!

I am more and more in love with solid fabric. I think I have to order a Kona cotton color card.

Wide scrappy binding

I am more and more in love with wide scrappy binding.

I like to cut scraps of the same length  - the binding looks great and it is easy to calculate how many pieces you need.

My pieces were cut 3.5 inches wide and my finish binding is 0.5" wide.

I have to wash it then to take some good pictures.

But only after I will handed it to my hubby. Today is his 44 anniversary!

I hope you are having fun today!

A New Beginning

My next quilt (for my 21 year nephew) will be black.

I don't like black color. Here in Romania when someone dies the familly usually wear black clothes for a few months. I think that is why I have such an aversion to black color. I don't have too many black clothes.

But I hope I will love this quilt -  I added many happy colors! Still there will be a lot of black.

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Happy again...

I had a few pieces of colored poplin, very wide(more than 100 inches) but short (1 yard). And I pieced two striped backings for my next quilts. 

I did not use the rotary cutter and cutting mat! I just ripped strips from the width of the fabric, then I pressed them and stitched them together.

The strips ended up perfect straight and it was so easy to piece them together.

Too bad I did not make them narrower!

I started quilting the last solid quilt I have. And I am happy again because the quilt is not too large and I still had a piece of cotton batting.

Assistant at work :)

 

Half of quilt is already done and I am in love!

Lesson learned from the cube quilt: can't make long straight lines of stitching -  make them waved! Which I do and the quilting looks wonderful!

Can't wait to wash it! 

Happy Sunday!

Geta

Lovely!

Isn't this pouch wonderful ? My friend Teodora made it for me a few months ago.  She knows very well what I like: green color and kitties. Fabulous assorted !

I carry it in my tote bag  but it is too sweet to be hiden there, I have to find another use for it!
The kitty panel is a paper napkin. The pouch is washable, YES! The technique is called "decoupage" and Teodora has a tutorial on her blog.

Have a  lovely weekend!

Lunch Bag

I made a lunch bag for my hubby.

I don't have too many fabrics in my stash suitable for man projects and I am glad I found this navy velveteen.  

I made for the first time this type of cover and it turned out great.

He wanted something that folded could fit in his pocket, let's see if this could change his mind:). 

Too bad I don't have at hand some oilcloth  - I could make in minutes something like a paper bag -  maybe he would like it more! Next time...

Thank you!

This little guy kept me busy in the last 3 days.

My spools kept him busy too...

"Thank you" for your comments about the cube quilt. My sister loves the quilt- she doesn't see anything wrong with the quilting or the texture.

I have to make three new projects until August 26!

Happy Stitching!

Geta

2 in 1 Quilt Finished

What a terrible week I had!  Just because I ran out of cotton batting. 

While I worked on this quilt my only thought was: "I ruined this quilt, I ruined this quilt!" . So I started hating the quilt instead of hating me that I did not wait with this quilt until I have the batting I wanted.

143 cubes, 75"x87" the final size.

I wanted to quilt the blocks with perfect straight lines and evenly spaced and of course I couldn't have all the lines like they were stitched by a computer. 

My puffy batting made the quilt sandwich bulky and I hardly moved it under the needle. Moreover, the top did not stick so well on polyester batting as it sticks on cotton so the whole week I struggled to move the quilt and keep the top flat! 

A cotton batting would have hidden the imperfections - but from a plane the quilt did not look so bad, what do you think?

Every cube was quilted in one continuous line.

I already told to my youngest sister (Alex's mother) that I have a quilt-surprise for her. "What's  the occasion?" she asked. Alex's  first birthday (which will happen in a few days)! So she is now anxious to see it.

I forgot to say her that actually there are two quilts. Look in the picture bellow:

 

It's like seeing the empty part of a glass (on the left) or the full glass (on the right). Just by rotating the quilt 180 degrees. A side for every mood!

 

Here is the back -unfortunately the colors faded a little after the first wash  -stuff bought from Romania!

So I am still sad that I did not make the best quilt, especially with this time consuming pattern. I usually don't make compromises with my quilts but this time I had to work with what I had in my stash.

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Hancock's of Paducah offers a few times a year free shipping for international customers. I think the order is limited to 2 battings but it is great to have them without paying expensive shipping.

WIP

I started quilting the cube quilt - and I am not having fun!

Today is the fourth day and I don't think I am brave enough to finish it.

The quilt was too wide and since I did not have such wide batting I trimmed two vertical rows from the both sides.

I am not sure if I will hate or love this quilt - I have to wait to finish it! Right now I hate it!

 

I hope you are having fun!

Memories...

... from years ago.

8 years ago I made this quilt for my nephew Dragos for his 13 birthday. Tomorrow he is turning 21 and he needs a new quilt. Until Alex's birth he was the youngest of our nephews and we have always spoiled him- he was the first in the family who had a bed quilt.

This was my 2003-quilting style! At the time I was a big fan of batiks.

The quilt was washed many times, the colors are a little faded but they still look great. 

I took these pictures a few days ago and I was surprised to see how good the quilt looks after 8 years of everyday use.

Minimalist stitch-in-the-ditch quilting - one of the very few quilts stitched with the walking foot.

A pieced border - something I don't make anymore these days...

He needs a modern quilt now - I already planned it -  just have to wait to arrive a few fabrics.

I sure loved the fabrics, colors and pattern because I made another quilt, just bigger and without pieced borders.

No stitching...

at all this last week.

Just a few trips in nature.

on the "Piatra Craiului" mountains

My sisters and my niece were very brave and climbed up to the ridge,
at 1850 m (6070 ft).

Then we spent a day with Alex at the foot of the mountain.

and here is a view of Brasov. Yes- this is me!

Happy Stitching Week!