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.
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