Five years in the making - end of an era
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janestarzPulling myself together last week to finally put the binding on my mother's quilt has paid off! This project that moved house with me four times and was a work in progress for five years has finally been finished.
Please note that you can click any image for a larger size!
In 2009 my mother moved to Houten and we bought quilt fabrics in Woerden for a quilt to celebrate her new home with. Since this would be my first major quilt project, I had no idea how to get started or how to calculate fabrics. The lady running the store must have thought I was mad!
Mom picked a series of fabrics from Makower UK, three coordinating fabrics and one border fabric. I sewed a test block from linen scraps and finally set to work on cutting out triangles for the blocks.
Test Block. The pattern is called "Wandering Star".
I had no clue how to work with strips for easy assembly, so I cut all the triangles separately. Needless to say, this took a lot of time and I cut a whole big pile of triangles in two sizes.
I was on a roll, though and soon enough the triangles were sewn into squares and the squares were sewn into blocks...
By the time February of 2010 came rolling around, I had (most of) my blocks assembled. I was aiming for 25 blocks.
I remember ordering fabric online because I didn't have enough, and I just ordered several yards of these fabrics just to make sure I could finish the quilt.
The scraps have been sent out in a swap, have been used as binding and I'm making a smaller quilt from them as well.
And then the project disappeared for a good long while. I have no further pictures documenting that I sewed all the blocks together to create the top, but I know I did so somewhere between february of 2010 and the next picture of june 2013. I vaguely recall I might have sewed the blocks together in the summer of 2013.
The next images I have are of the top complete with border fabric. I sewed strips and did the corners at a 45 degree angle so the border continues all the way around the blocks. Then I brought the quilt to a longarm quilter studio (Patch & Stitch) to have her quilt it.
Despite having sewn a few other quilt projects in the mean time, this was the first time I'd have a professional quilting my work. I simply didn't have the space or the patience to quilt the top myself.
I bought an apartment in December of 2013 and just as I was moving the message came my quilt was finished! I postponed picking it up for yet another few months. The quilting was gorgeous and Wendy from the studio showed us how her beautiful machine worked as we came to pick up the quilt. *makes grabby hands*
Now all that was left to do was the binding and label.
My mother would come over for dinner last Saturday and I wanted to surprise her with the newest addition to my household: my new furry friend the cat. But wouldn't it be lovely if I had also finished her quilt? So I set to work, and here are the pictures of the final steps.
Bias tape made thanks to furry helper!
Here's a picture of the quilting pattern
The border, bias tape and label.
I named the quilt "On the Zeisveld" (their street name, they've been living there for 5 years now). The rest reads "2009-2014, for mom and Luc". The label was embroidered by my own machine and stitched on by hand.
Done!
The quilt was displayed on my own huge bed in a far too small room. I had to stitch a (bad) panorama picture of 2 pictures to get everything on there.
The quilt measures roughly 250 x 250 cm (roughly 98 x 98 inches). Mom and Luc were delighted, and it triggered a late summer cleaning spree of their bedroom to make it ready for the quilt. I have yet to receive pictures of the quilt with their cats on it, but I have no doubt they will be forthcoming.
*ding!* Project done.
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Please note that you can click any image for a larger size!
In 2009 my mother moved to Houten and we bought quilt fabrics in Woerden for a quilt to celebrate her new home with. Since this would be my first major quilt project, I had no idea how to get started or how to calculate fabrics. The lady running the store must have thought I was mad!
Mom picked a series of fabrics from Makower UK, three coordinating fabrics and one border fabric. I sewed a test block from linen scraps and finally set to work on cutting out triangles for the blocks.
Test Block. The pattern is called "Wandering Star".
I had no clue how to work with strips for easy assembly, so I cut all the triangles separately. Needless to say, this took a lot of time and I cut a whole big pile of triangles in two sizes.
I was on a roll, though and soon enough the triangles were sewn into squares and the squares were sewn into blocks...
By the time February of 2010 came rolling around, I had (most of) my blocks assembled. I was aiming for 25 blocks.
I remember ordering fabric online because I didn't have enough, and I just ordered several yards of these fabrics just to make sure I could finish the quilt.
The scraps have been sent out in a swap, have been used as binding and I'm making a smaller quilt from them as well.
And then the project disappeared for a good long while. I have no further pictures documenting that I sewed all the blocks together to create the top, but I know I did so somewhere between february of 2010 and the next picture of june 2013. I vaguely recall I might have sewed the blocks together in the summer of 2013.
The next images I have are of the top complete with border fabric. I sewed strips and did the corners at a 45 degree angle so the border continues all the way around the blocks. Then I brought the quilt to a longarm quilter studio (Patch & Stitch) to have her quilt it.
Despite having sewn a few other quilt projects in the mean time, this was the first time I'd have a professional quilting my work. I simply didn't have the space or the patience to quilt the top myself.
I bought an apartment in December of 2013 and just as I was moving the message came my quilt was finished! I postponed picking it up for yet another few months. The quilting was gorgeous and Wendy from the studio showed us how her beautiful machine worked as we came to pick up the quilt. *makes grabby hands*
Now all that was left to do was the binding and label.
My mother would come over for dinner last Saturday and I wanted to surprise her with the newest addition to my household: my new furry friend the cat. But wouldn't it be lovely if I had also finished her quilt? So I set to work, and here are the pictures of the final steps.
Bias tape made thanks to furry helper!
Here's a picture of the quilting pattern
The border, bias tape and label.
I named the quilt "On the Zeisveld" (their street name, they've been living there for 5 years now). The rest reads "2009-2014, for mom and Luc". The label was embroidered by my own machine and stitched on by hand.
Done!
The quilt was displayed on my own huge bed in a far too small room. I had to stitch a (bad) panorama picture of 2 pictures to get everything on there.
The quilt measures roughly 250 x 250 cm (roughly 98 x 98 inches). Mom and Luc were delighted, and it triggered a late summer cleaning spree of their bedroom to make it ready for the quilt. I have yet to receive pictures of the quilt with their cats on it, but I have no doubt they will be forthcoming.
*ding!* Project done.
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Date: 2014-08-19 05:38 am (UTC)Hij is mooi geworden.
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Date: 2014-08-19 07:27 am (UTC)Ik heb wel moeten zoeken naar de sterren op de quilt, op de een of andere manier zien mijn ogen vooral de licht gekleurde balken ^_^
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Date: 2014-08-19 05:49 pm (UTC)Het uiteindelijke effect van deze quilt is erg drie-dimensionaal en bijna Escher-esque. Dat vind ik zelf ook de mooiste quilts: degenen met secundaire en tertiaire patronen erin.
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