Quilt Market Swag Giveaway

The first day of Market I attended a Schoolhouse session with Lila Tueller.  She has a new collection coming in June for Riley Blake, called Priscilla.  The collection features lots of pretty pinks, yellows, and blues with floral and damask designs.



Lila generously gave me this notepad holder, and I thought I would pass it along to you.  I love the sweet little rose button closure.

Just leave me a comment, and then stay tuned because I have a bunch more pictures to share with you, as well as some more Market swag to give away.  I will pick a winner for the Priscilla notepad holder next Friday, the 24th.  Good luck!  Sorry, the giveaway is over!

Yay, Another Quilt Finished!

One busted machine later, I am finally done!  This turned out to be an experimental quilt for me -- I did some pretty ambitious (for me) quilting that I enjoyed immensely.  My technique did improve significantly toward the end of the quilt, so more than ever I'm a proponent of "practice, practice, practice!"

These are the feather details I'm happy to show -- some of the earlier feathers on this quilt do not stand up to close scrutiny.  I chose to do the feathers on the patterned parts and stippling on the solid white, whereas it might make more sense to do this in the reverse.  I thought since I am fairly new at FMQ, doing the more detailed work on the patterned sections would be more forgiving.

Feather detail on one of the bottom triangles.

Feather detail on corner triangle.

Since it took me so long to quilt this darn thing, I decided to go with a machine binding technique that I read about here on Red Pepper Quilts.  I do love the look of hand binding, but I gotta say, this technique is SO much faster. 

The stitch-in-the-ditch on the front binding blended in well after washing.

Top-stitching detail on the back side of the binding that results from machine binding.

All in all, I'm happy with how this quilt turned out and am even more excited to move on to new projects (and other WIPS).  PS. I love, love, love my new Janome 6600!

Charm Pack Quilt Along

I'm very late to the game, close to a year late, actually, but that's beside the point.  I started this quilt last fall, after finding the pattern as part of a quilt-along at Freckled Whimsy. 

I was about half-way in when I stopped to start my holiday sewing.  I only recently started working on this quilt top again, after a major reorganization of my sewing space.  Well, it's still not done, but I thought I would post my progress.

The quilt-along calls for two charm packs and some yardage, so I chose Lila Tueller's Spirit collection for Moda. The colors are pretty bright, which I think works well with the solid white Kona to make it not so screamingly bright. Now, I have to add the border, make the quilt sandwich, quilt, and bind. Wow, I still have a ways to go.

I wished I were close enough to being done to post it in the Blogger's Quilt Festival over at Amy's Creative Side. Have you seen some of the quilts? They are truly amazing.