I wanted to make a pillow. The Workshop was fun and I was able to make a pillow. Fabrics are Pandalicious from Art Gallery Fabrics.
This was my first pillow. There is definitely room for improvement, but I see more pillows in my future!
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Bias Tape Applique- Latifah Saafir Workshop
The Music City Modern Quilters Guild held a Workshop with Latifah Saafir. The first day, was an afternoon where we learned bias Tape Applique on a small project. The next day was a full day with the Glam Clam Quilt (see next post)!
I wanted to make a pillow. The Workshop was fun and I was able to make a pillow. Fabrics are Pandalicious from Art Gallery Fabrics.
This was my first pillow. There is definitely room for improvement, but I see more pillows in my future!
I wanted to make a pillow. The Workshop was fun and I was able to make a pillow. Fabrics are Pandalicious from Art Gallery Fabrics.
This was my first pillow. There is definitely room for improvement, but I see more pillows in my future!
Celtic Heart - finish #011
A new baby means a new quilts! An acquaintance of mine wanted me to make her a quilt for her new granddaughter. This was my first commissioned quilt. Due to their Scottish heritage, she wanted something with a Celtic look and loved the look of a Celtic Heart. I didn't want to do applique for a baby quilt and ultimately found a Pretzel heart paper piece pattern on Etsy for only $3.50. I decided to go with a medallion type quilt with this pattern.
The colors her daughter picked for the nursery were pink, light blue, and light green. I decided to go with mainly light green and pink for the front and incorporated the light blue with the backing fabric. She wanted a quilt that her granddaughter could use as she gets older, so she didn't want a baby size quilt. Originally, I had planned for the quilt to be 60x60; however, it ultimately turned into a 66x66 quilt!
Using the Pretzel heart pattern, I blew up the pattern to 150% percentage for the center and used the pattern at 100% for the corner anchors.
Once I finished the focus pieces, I wanted to come up with a way to have interesting borders. I love the way it turned out!!
Quilting: The center medallion hearts are outlined and filled with pebbles. The corner and side hearts are outlined and filled with paisleys. Stripes on the side are filled with a alternated narrow and wide candy ribbons. Along the edge of the striped borders is a row of hearts. The remaining is filled with stippling that has hearts thrown in. I definitely went all out with the heart concept!
Fabrics: I used Kona solid for the green background fabric. The pinks and purples were calico fabric from Joann's. The binding is Cotton + Steel honeymoon fabric.
Photoshoot location: Kennesaw Farms - Gallatin, TN
PS - I used my Juki TL-2010Q for all the piecing and quilting. This machine was a dream to use! I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to quilt their own quilts. This quilt was 66x66 and fit in the machine's harp space with ease.
The colors her daughter picked for the nursery were pink, light blue, and light green. I decided to go with mainly light green and pink for the front and incorporated the light blue with the backing fabric. She wanted a quilt that her granddaughter could use as she gets older, so she didn't want a baby size quilt. Originally, I had planned for the quilt to be 60x60; however, it ultimately turned into a 66x66 quilt!
Using the Pretzel heart pattern, I blew up the pattern to 150% percentage for the center and used the pattern at 100% for the corner anchors.
Once I finished the focus pieces, I wanted to come up with a way to have interesting borders. I love the way it turned out!!
Quilting: The center medallion hearts are outlined and filled with pebbles. The corner and side hearts are outlined and filled with paisleys. Stripes on the side are filled with a alternated narrow and wide candy ribbons. Along the edge of the striped borders is a row of hearts. The remaining is filled with stippling that has hearts thrown in. I definitely went all out with the heart concept!
Fabrics: I used Kona solid for the green background fabric. The pinks and purples were calico fabric from Joann's. The binding is Cotton + Steel honeymoon fabric.
Photoshoot location: Kennesaw Farms - Gallatin, TN
PS - I used my Juki TL-2010Q for all the piecing and quilting. This machine was a dream to use! I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to quilt their own quilts. This quilt was 66x66 and fit in the machine's harp space with ease.
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