Saturday 28 May 2011

New Quilt Uploaded to My Shop

I have finished another quilt to hopefully sell on my shop.  This quilt is made up from loads of tiny scraps of fabric that I have been stashing in a basket over the last two years.  I cut them all into 1 3/4 inch strips and then sewed them end to end into a long strip and used this to make a log cabin style block.  I made 9 of these blocks up and then sewed them together to make a larger square block.  I made a border around the edge using some blue flowery fabric I had laying about and then decided I wanted to do another round of mulit colours around the edge so I got some more strips of my scraps, this time 4 inches by 1 3/4 inches and sewed them together width ways to make a nice stripey border.  I finished the quilt off using the blue flowery fabric.



The quilt is my first big attempt at machine quilting and although I much prefer hand quilting I didnt think it turned out as bad as I was thinking it was going to.  The pattern is just abstract sewing.




5 comments:

  1. Love the colours! Beautiful quilt Lesley. Im following you on facebook now. x

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  2. OMG Les, How on earth did you have the patience to sew all of that? The colours are fantastic. I bet that will fly out of your shop. :)

    Please come live near me, so I can have lessons. xxx

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  3. Thank you Julie and Pootle, the middle squares did take quite a while to make but it was good using up the little scraps as most of them were so pretty.

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  4. Leslie you are always so fantastic with any thing you make.

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  5. Wow Lesley! what a beautiful quilt :) Just goes to show what you can do with scraps :)
    Brill :)
    Sue x

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