Lindz Quilts

Quilting is almost finished on this bad boy. I'm getting really excited to finish this!

This is my first experience with free motion quilting. I decided to a random geometric pattern through all the white negative space. I love the way it is turning out so far!




I am definitely not fully in control with the free motion quilting yet. If you look close you can see some stitching is longer/shorter from me not being able to give it consistent motion. I will get better with practice! .... I think.



AHH imperfections!

The effect is still great though over. I can't wait to finish this! Next time I post I will finally have a finished project! WOOOO

Thanks all for stopping by!

Yay! It has borders! I dont know why this was the most annoying part for me, but I really had to MAKE myself get the border on this thing.
 

I have no idea what I'm going to do for the backing. I completely ran out of Kona white and was hoping to not have to buy more fabric. I'm really hoping I have enough of the other fabrics to piece together a back!

Tis all for today!

Thanks all for stopping by :)

 Working away on this quilt for my Mommy in-law. I have all the blocks together with sashing now. This did not happen without a massive amount of frustration. 2 of the rows had to be completely ripped apart after realizing the sashing did not line up AT ALL.

It still needs borders, but I decided maybe I needed a small break from sewing yesterday.

I don't have a lot of room in my teensy apartment for laying things out, so I apologize for the shadows and terrible cropping.

I wanted to talk about a little bit about some resolutions for this year that I have for this year. Nothing really intense, but I always like to try to be bettering (is that a word?) myself


Pretty much.

Sewing:

• Finish all unfinished projects
• Finish at least 1 quilt per month through 2013
• Start/establish an Etsy store

So this is a project that I thought up mmm last May. I decided I was going to make a quilt for my mother-in-law. They had just bought a new house and she was clearly going to need a fresh new quilt for her living room!

Well here we are 8 months later and I finally sat down and made some real progress on this. I knew that I wanted to do a similar layout to what Camille did in this blog post with Summersville. I love the clean lines because I wanted to use bold fabrics to give some nice color for my in-laws new living room.  I decided that the color scheme of Maya by Anthology Fabrics was perfect, as my MIL loves red and yellow.



I added some coordinating reds, yellows and teals fill in the gaps and give it more depth.



The blocks are about 10" x 10" after using 2.5" strips of fabric.



I kinda thought I'd cut enough fabric to make a big enough quilt, but I ended up with only enough for 14 blocks. I tried to lay it out with 12 and do some cool border with remaining strips, but I think I will have to bite the bullet and press on with more block making.




Since this is a long overdue project, I'm hoping to get the top done ASAP, so be on the look out for more updates to come!