About Me
- Brigide
- I am a frazzled mother of 2 (4yrs and 14 months)that stays at home and attempts to keep house while crafting.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Evolution of a quilt
Hello again! I've been busy working on an anniversary present for the hubby. Seven years on Feb 14th!
When he was deployed to Iraq I crocheted him an immensely heavy blue and gray blanket and mailed it to him. I haven't made him much since then (except for a baby) so I thought it was time to make him his own quilt ;).
Me, Momma? Was I that baby?
It was me wasn't it....?
The starting point for this was his love of dark colors and asian culture. I consulted with him and dug into my stash. The black front piece was a nice linen that I had been saving for a dress. I took that and did an imitation of Sashiko embroidery on it. The sun/moon/circle thingy is hand stitched. I couldn't leave it like that since the whole thing looked way too empty.
We have always like the art of Hokusai and I remembered The Great Wave. Perfect! Now to execute...hmmm.
I roughly drew it on the fabric first to get a feel for how much space it should take up on the bottom, then I taped together some freezer paper and drew it on there.
I cut the shape of the wave out and started hunting for blue fabric in my stash. Right away I knew I didn't have enough of any one fabric to make the wave so I decided to piece it.
I rounded up some blue canvas napkins, one of his old t-shirts and a scrap of blue cotton blender I had left from another quilt. I'm lazy and find traditional quilting boring so I pieced it all crazy like with knit pieces lying on top of canvas pieces and as few seams as possible. It was a bit challenging to get enough fabric to fill the bottom but I squeaked it out. Keeping with being lazy and my husband not liking raw edges I grabbed some white packaged seam binding and sewed it all around the wave.
When that was done I pinned it on the black and took up my Sashiko again. I stitched the bold white lines by hand till it looked filled in enough.
After that all I had to do was cut the grey border, sew it on, make the quilt sandwich and quilt it, trim the edges and sew the binding on. I used matching thread on the back and white through the blue waves, I switched to black on the linen which is why you can't see the quilt lines in the pictures.
Whew! That was a really long winded post for me! Sorry if it bored you to tears. I promise I'll go back to my terse nature soon.
When he was deployed to Iraq I crocheted him an immensely heavy blue and gray blanket and mailed it to him. I haven't made him much since then (except for a baby) so I thought it was time to make him his own quilt ;).
Me, Momma? Was I that baby?
It was me wasn't it....?
The starting point for this was his love of dark colors and asian culture. I consulted with him and dug into my stash. The black front piece was a nice linen that I had been saving for a dress. I took that and did an imitation of Sashiko embroidery on it. The sun/moon/circle thingy is hand stitched. I couldn't leave it like that since the whole thing looked way too empty.
We have always like the art of Hokusai and I remembered The Great Wave. Perfect! Now to execute...hmmm.
I roughly drew it on the fabric first to get a feel for how much space it should take up on the bottom, then I taped together some freezer paper and drew it on there.
I cut the shape of the wave out and started hunting for blue fabric in my stash. Right away I knew I didn't have enough of any one fabric to make the wave so I decided to piece it.
I rounded up some blue canvas napkins, one of his old t-shirts and a scrap of blue cotton blender I had left from another quilt. I'm lazy and find traditional quilting boring so I pieced it all crazy like with knit pieces lying on top of canvas pieces and as few seams as possible. It was a bit challenging to get enough fabric to fill the bottom but I squeaked it out. Keeping with being lazy and my husband not liking raw edges I grabbed some white packaged seam binding and sewed it all around the wave.
When that was done I pinned it on the black and took up my Sashiko again. I stitched the bold white lines by hand till it looked filled in enough.
After that all I had to do was cut the grey border, sew it on, make the quilt sandwich and quilt it, trim the edges and sew the binding on. I used matching thread on the back and white through the blue waves, I switched to black on the linen which is why you can't see the quilt lines in the pictures.
Whew! That was a really long winded post for me! Sorry if it bored you to tears. I promise I'll go back to my terse nature soon.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Did you wear your party hats?
Happy New Years!
With two children it seems to be a low-key affair these days but fun none-the-less. It's also a birthday, hubby is 29! Eek!
We had a lovely Christmas and the handmade gifts were well received. I demanded a handmade gift from my husband and he made me this on a pillowcase:
(Yes, we are gaming nerds)
Still it was a lot of effort for my manly man to sit and patiently stitch it out. Lol.
He also bought me a Husqavarna Huskylock s15 Serger. It's a little bit intimidating and I haven't quite managed to get the tensioning right on it yet. I'm going to scour google and pick the brains of all the sewing people I know to get it fixed up. Then I shall conquer the world! Mwahahaha!
I'm working on a Sashiko stitched quilt for my husband and after that I'm thinking I need to try another garment for myself. Maybe I'll actually wear this one.
Hope everyone had wonderful Holidays and feels ready for the New Year! See you, around.
With two children it seems to be a low-key affair these days but fun none-the-less. It's also a birthday, hubby is 29! Eek!
We had a lovely Christmas and the handmade gifts were well received. I demanded a handmade gift from my husband and he made me this on a pillowcase:
(Yes, we are gaming nerds)
Still it was a lot of effort for my manly man to sit and patiently stitch it out. Lol.
He also bought me a Husqavarna Huskylock s15 Serger. It's a little bit intimidating and I haven't quite managed to get the tensioning right on it yet. I'm going to scour google and pick the brains of all the sewing people I know to get it fixed up. Then I shall conquer the world! Mwahahaha!
I'm working on a Sashiko stitched quilt for my husband and after that I'm thinking I need to try another garment for myself. Maybe I'll actually wear this one.
Hope everyone had wonderful Holidays and feels ready for the New Year! See you, around.
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