WIP Wednesday

It's been so long since I posted WIP Wednesday! (June 21 was my last post). I had lots of work but no progress... (ha ha)

At long last I finished the Pretty in Pink quilt. I'm very happy with the result. All I need is to applique baby G.'s name on the back.


I'm working now on a new baby quilt, for baby E., my 3 weeks old lovely grandson. No more pink for now, back to blue/green/yellow and the rest of the color wheel. BTW, who says pink is for girls only? What do think? Would you make a pink quilt for a boy, or dress him in pink?


Enough with gender sociology. I'm trying something new - paper piecing. I'm working with a pattern from Glorious Patchwork by Kaffe Fasset the quilt on the cover. Somehow the instruction are for paper piecing, and I decided to try and master this technique with the help of my great teacher Margot. Well, I discovered I really don't like it. So time consuming! Maybe it's good for other shapes like points and curves, but for this log cabin I'd rather use simple piecing. Do you have a more positive experience with PP? I'd love to hear.


This is the first block I finished. It took me more than 3 hours! At this rate I'll finish this quilt when baby E. will be in school. I don't even like this block, I think the yellow at the end is not great. Well, hope to show some serious progress next week, paper piecing or not.

I'm linking with Lee from Freshly Pieced, who hosts this lovely event week after week. Thank you Lee!

Thanks for stopping by,

Noga

Pretty in Pink - Finished!

At last i finished Pretty in Pink, it's quilted and binded, I only need to applique the label with the name at the back. Baby G. is already 2 months old, and she has a new cousin, baby E. who is also waiting for a quilt, so it's time I continue working!




This quilt is made of my pink stash, some "it's a Hoot" for Moda, and some Ann Kelle for Robert Kaufman. Some of the fabrics are from my collection.




The backing is a sheet from Ikea. I bought few of their children's sheets, they have lovely prints, wash very well, and are very soft and easy to work with.


For the binding is I used one of the pink striped fabrics from the quilt.


The quilt is 91 x 93 cm, 36 x 37 inch. I quilted it minimally - straight lines through the colored squares.


It's very girly, and I'm very happy with the result. This is the first girly quilt I ever made!




I'm linking to Fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory and to Quilt Summer Fair at Gen X Quilters.

First place! Thanks and a giveaway

My quilt Sunshine and Candy got first place in Quilts for Little Boys contest at the Quilting Gallery blog! Thank you so much for voting for this quilt! I always loved this quilt, and I made it with great joy, but it's very heartwarming to see that other quilters like it as well. Thank you Michele, for organizing this contest!

As a note of my appreciation I decided to have a giveaway, I'll post about it in the next post, stay tuned!

Blowing in the wind

I'm a very slow quilter, especially during the design stage when decisions need to be made. That's why I'm still working on the Pretty in Pink baby quilt. After long deliberations I decided to add white border all around to frame the quilt.




I took some pictures of the quilt top on our balcony in the lovely morning wind.


I'm also going to put the baby's name on the back,

Hope to finish the quilt during the coming week.

Do you also spend so much time on seemingly small decisions? Is this perfectionism really worth it in terms of time spent?

I'm linking to Fabric Tuesday in Quilt Story

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great sewing week!
Noga