Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

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Technicolour Yawns for All

technicolour yawn quilt v2 lines

The sheer injustice of a single quilt between two kids was a situation that had to be rectified, and fast. Obviously, it would have made sense to delay the inveigling of quilts until both were completed, but logistically this was impossible when every stitch was supervised by the ever-present recipients. If I was able to weave the words, 'Are you done yet? Are you done yet? Are you done yet?' into a tapestry it would reach to the moon. And back.

technicolour yawn quilt v2 detail

Although I cut the pieces for both of their rainbow quilts on the same day, I ended up dividing each colour into three pieces for Jamie's so I could quilt the lines slightly farther apart without them becoming inevitably crooked. For the interested, Maia's quilt has 182 stitch lines and I didn't want to do that again. Jamie's has a slightly more reasonable 115 lines. Between the two, I completely decimated my thread stash.

technicolour yawn quilt v2

The extra seam allowances meant I had to add two strips of white to the mix so it'd still be single-bed length. True fact of the day: it's impossible to take a good picture of a quilt on a top bunk.

Saturday, 16 October 2010

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Retro Rocket Quilt: The Nitty Gritty


Because Crystal asked so nicely, here is my sketch of the design of the Retro Rocket Quilt. Click on the picture for a better view.

If you use 2.5" as the length / width of each square (as I did), you will get a final quilt measuring 33" by 43.5". Remember that you will need to add your preferred seam allowance to each piece on the edges that are sewn to others!

Thursday, 14 October 2010

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Retro Rocket Quilt

rocket boy quilt 012

Friend Sarah's sister is due her first baby this week and commissioned me to make a couple of things for him.

rocket boy quilt 007

This is only the second quilt I've made and I spent a very long time drafting different patterns on graph paper before I got started.

rocket boy quilt 009

I used a rocket, polkadot and red/white/blue colur scheme, with a Thinsulate interior and red flannel backing. I was going to quilt it with wavy lines but I lost my nerve. I'm not sure quilting is for me.


Thankfully, I was also allowed a project within my comfort zone: an appliqued t-shirt. The baby is called 'Sherpa' in utero (don't ask me why!) so I fused some white jersey letters to an organic khaki t-shirt and stitched them on with red thread. The t-shirt is tiny and the letters even tinier so getting the stitching around all the curves and angles involved a lot of pivoting!


We never had nickname for the kids while gestating but it seems pretty common... did you have nicknames for yours?