It's the first Friday of the month and that means a finish from me!
Ready??? This is the FIRST pop song I actually remember seeing on TV - it must have been around 1981-2 because it was in our house in England. It wasn't this clip but the music brings back memories. And it fits with my finish.
I bought a fat quarter of safari fabric at the Perth quilt fair last year. I wanted to do something modern with it, and I had a hankering to try using linen. So I came up with this.
I also wanted to try using perle cotton, so I hand quilted it. Unfortunately, I didn't realise perle cotton comes in different weights, and the type of craft store near me... well, if you asked for perle cotton, they'd probably look at you strangely and say "the pearls are in aisle 6 and the cotton is in aisle 14..."I had hideous trouble getting the needle size right and pulling size 5 thread through a quilt... A less dense batting might have helped - I generally use White-n-warm. I also learnt that with this type of thread, there is a RIGHT way and a WRONG way to thread it. If you run your fingers along the thread, you can feel that running one way is a tiny bit rougher - like hair follicles. You don't want to be pulling it through the wrong way! So it's been quilt a row, wait a few weeks for blisters to recover, quilt a row, wait a few weeks.... So it really is TGIFF!
The linen was nice to work with (for a first go) and I love how it has all come together nicely... It looks cool and modern and cosy and friendly all at the same time.
Well done for pushing on through, I'm thinking that was pretty sore on the fingers given how tough it is to get #5 through a bear's nose o.O
ReplyDeleteLove your quilt Laura!
ReplyDeleteRather fun and different! Lovely quilt.
ReplyDeleteGood for you for persevering on the hand quilting! I have a little round rubber disc thingy that does save the fingers a bit!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt looks great! The amount of hand quilting is rather impressive!
ReplyDeleteThat is lovely!
ReplyDeleteNice work! I haven't hand quilted before but you make it look easy. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the modern look.
The hand quilting looks beautiful! Definitely worth the pain in my opinion :)
ReplyDeleteOhhh I see the aqua. Lovely! Didn't realise it was hand-quilted either - that is awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteLove what you have done with the safari fabrics Laura - i can just imagine how sore that was on the fingers. Hope you were using thimbles!
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt! It's nice to see a modern layout that also looks cosy and cuddly :)
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt and great tip on the perlé! I was hand quilting with Perlé 8 on linen when I read this and tried to feel the right way and the wrong way, will have to practice a bit I think LOL I do love the cotton perlé but I need to buy myself a decent needle!
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt. I didn't know that there was a right way to pull the thread.
ReplyDeleteLove your stitching! How did you keep those lines so straight?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your description of the quilt - it's really modern and fun too! The quilting is beautiful! I've yet to try but it's on my list and I hope I'm half as good as you :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute little quilt! Well done!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute! And such an ingenious way to make use of a fat quarter. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine hand quilting an entire top in Perle cotton! It does look beautiful, even if it took a while!
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous stitching! Very impressive, and really makes the quilt extra special.
ReplyDeleteWow - I really love this quilt. Great job!!
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