Blogger's Quilt Festival

I don't really know why, but Blogger's Quilt Festival always sneaks up on me! I have it on my radar a few weeks before, and I make big plans for the quilt I want to show. Yeah, that somehow never works. For example, a year ago I wanted to show my Little Folks string quilt. And it's now halfway done. Maybe next year then? For this festival, I wanted to show my Trip around the Ocean quilt. The top's done and the back is pieced together, but that's all I managed last week.

So instead, I decided to show you the favorite of all the quilts I made so far. It's my Ocatagonal Rainbow Quilt. It was finished this March, and went to a very dear friend of mine to Australia. Well, not really to her, it was for the lovely Miss Juliet, who came into this world in January. I had made quilts for my friend's two boys as well, so it was a no brainer what to gift her for the birth of her third child!

It's slightly bigger than crib size with 70 x 50 inches. The is all scraps, and the solid is Kona Cotton Coal. The pattern is of course the Octagonal Orbs from Elizabeth Hartmann.

I used some yellow shirting for the back:

 The only thing that did not come from my stash for this quilt is the binding, I think it's from Art Gallery Fabrics:

I know that it was well received at it's new home, which made me very happy and showed me once more, why I love to gift quilts!

Happy Blogger's Quilt Festival!

The loghouse quilt

Happy Friday, everyone! I am in a very good mood today, so I'm sending out happy thought into the blogosphere...

And I finished a quilt! I haven't had any finished in April, so I think May is off to a good start. Remember the giant log cabin I showed here a while ago? The one out of the Vintage Modern jelly roll?  I finished that one, but since the single block is so big, I can't really call it a log cabin quilt anymore. So instead, I proudly present the log house quilt:

I also thought that the single big block was a bit boring, and I did not want a square quilt, so I added another little log cabin block in the corner. The quilt now measures about 70 x 60 inches.

Here's a view of the back:

 For the binding, I took some leftover strips from the jelly roll.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend, I'm hoping to take a trip around the world. Check back for photos next week...

I'm linking up with TGIFF and crazy mom quilts!

WIP Wednesday: Halfway there

Hi, long time no see, right? I've been sick last week, so not a lot of sewing has been going on (and no blogging at all!). I'm slowly getting back on track, and I worked on a long time UFO, my Little Folks string quilt.

 

I pulled out this quilt top. I started this over a year ago, and then it just sat there. But then I got two more half yards of the lovely Little Folks Voile from Ulrike, and this prompted me to get back to this quilt top. And I made 12 more blocks in one evening! I paper piece them, they are 11 inch squares. I need 16 more to have a Full Sized quilt, and 32 more for a queen size, which would fit our bed perfectly. So what do you think? Which size should I go for?

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday!

 

WIP Wednesday: Sunny with a chance of hexagons

Wednesday. Work in Progress. Almost wordless today.

Started a new hexagon project over the weekend:

Made a giant log cabin block:

More photos and probably more words can be found here:

Kyoto meets Berlin

What comes out when you take a pattern from a book bought in Kyoto and you mix it with fabric bought in Berlin?

A new top of course!

I was a bit afraid at the beginning since the book is all in Japanese, but it was so easy to follow this pattern. Maybe it was a bit risky to use the good fabric right away and not make a muslin, but I could not wait to use it. But I bought three meters of it (for 12 Euro altogether, which is an absolute steal), so I knew I had enough to make a second top should I screw up the first try. The only alteration that I made was to take some material away at the sides so it's not so bulky. I think this will be a perfect staple for summer, so expect some more to come...