Thursday 19 December 2013

Our wonky house in the middle....

 Our wonky house in the middle of our wonky street....

I was lucky enough to receive lots of lovely blocks from the Wonky House Swap group and decided I would make them into a picnic blanket. 






After conversation with the lovely Katy I went with cord as the backing.   Having made that decision I thought I'd better Quilt as You Go or I'd have to wrestle a heavy quilt through my little machine!

That all went reasonably well.



Then I wanted to add borders and the quilt title in paper pieced letters created by Kirsty @ Quiet Play and called Just My Type.   I got as far as one word before I gave up! 



Nothing wrong with the pattern - all to do with me and how I used to feel about paper piecing. Ok it is still not my favourite construction method - I still make too many mistakes meaning I have to unpick lots but I do love, love the results!

So I have at last got around to finishing the borders on this quilt, including some blocks that didn't fit into the central part of the quilt, my words and the siggy blocks!







Just got to add wadding, backing and to quilt all those borders in this QAYG project and of course to bind it all! 

The sun was out - I got a bit carried away - and I had company...

16 comments:

  1. Wow! Lots going on in this quilt! You could look at it for ages! Jxo

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  2. Love all the bright colours! The words look great so worth the unpicking I think!

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  3. So fun!! I love that you added the words, it's brilliant! I've just accepted that I waste fabric when paper piecing, I mostly use large scraps because I always get the angles wrong but it stops me from going mad ;)

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  4. Heh, love how you combined everything together

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  5. What a bright fun picnic quilt! Your paper piecing ended up really adding a lot to this quilt, so I'm glad you picked up on it again.

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  6. Such an uplifting quilt! I'm singing away...

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  7. Fabulous quilt All if tthose houses are great, but I do love the one with the snow

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  8. I think it's brilliant and I love the pink/green edging. Oh, and the words were definitely worth persevering with!

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  9. A work of art indeed. Di x

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  10. Looks gorgeous! Never thought houses can look that nice :)

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  11. This is terrific! The boat is my favourite..so much to look at her and smile about.
    Colours are gorgeous in your "light" . . . on your side of the world.
    I'll come to your picnic anyday!

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  12. Love, Love, LOVE it. Well done.

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  13. This Is so charming... I love it! So fun to look at all of those pretty houses.

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  14. how fantastic!! Love how you have put the borders together.
    You are amazing...

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