This quilt I started in 2009 and promised to my eldest for Christmas! I didn't say which Christmas but she is rather despairing of ever getting her quilt so it is about time I finished it don't you think!? I last blogged about it in April this year!
This is my favourite photo of it from April - looking like a stained glass window!
I pieced it entirely by hand except for attaching the borders which is why it has taken so long to finish the top - my daughter doesn't appreciate that it is time consuming, but to be honest the top has been complete since April 2011!
It has lain waiting to be quilted! As I have progressed with my machine quilting I decided to quilt it by machine just to make sure that it will all stay together and to give it more texture. Well and also because I thought maybe I could and quite frankly it was the only way it would be finished on time!
So far I have quilted round the stars and have cross hatched the squares in the border.
Ok there are a few wiggles and the stitches are not all even but I don't think she will mind! I quilted it using King Tut variegated thread which I had bought at the time for that purpose as my top thread and cream on the bottom to match the back fabric. I wish now I had been confident enough to use the variegated thread on the bobbin too but I still like it!
I will do something else in the irregular octagons but would rather give her the quilt at Christmas bound and ready for use and add a bit of quilting to those octagons once we've had a chance to discuss what she wants there - there was talk of Japanese words but I am not sure that it will fit with the look of the quilt. But if she does want it still I will have a go! Either by machine or perhaps hand stitched in cotton perle!?
I have called it Starry, starry night for obvious reasons but also because the Don Mclean song is/was a favourite of hers.
The song was written in admiration of the work of Vincent Van Gogh - she likes his paintings too. Bit of a sad song telling how Vincent was at odds with the rest of the world - for so many years, misunderstood and alone! She is an individual too who likes to go her own way!
She is also a Doctor Who fan and who remembers which Doctor is the one to meet Vincent in one of the episodes??
Hope she will love it, and as she gets ready to go to uni next year, I hope it will remind her of home and family and all the love we feel for her.
She is interested in Cosmology and is a bit of a star herself in my eyes!
I'm linking this post to Quilt Story, see my sidebar for the button - see you there!
I pieced it entirely by hand except for attaching the borders which is why it has taken so long to finish the top - my daughter doesn't appreciate that it is time consuming, but to be honest the top has been complete since April 2011!
It has lain waiting to be quilted! As I have progressed with my machine quilting I decided to quilt it by machine just to make sure that it will all stay together and to give it more texture. Well and also because I thought maybe I could and quite frankly it was the only way it would be finished on time!
So far I have quilted round the stars and have cross hatched the squares in the border.
Ok there are a few wiggles and the stitches are not all even but I don't think she will mind! I quilted it using King Tut variegated thread which I had bought at the time for that purpose as my top thread and cream on the bottom to match the back fabric. I wish now I had been confident enough to use the variegated thread on the bobbin too but I still like it!
I will do something else in the irregular octagons but would rather give her the quilt at Christmas bound and ready for use and add a bit of quilting to those octagons once we've had a chance to discuss what she wants there - there was talk of Japanese words but I am not sure that it will fit with the look of the quilt. But if she does want it still I will have a go! Either by machine or perhaps hand stitched in cotton perle!?
I have called it Starry, starry night for obvious reasons but also because the Don Mclean song is/was a favourite of hers.
The song was written in admiration of the work of Vincent Van Gogh - she likes his paintings too. Bit of a sad song telling how Vincent was at odds with the rest of the world - for so many years, misunderstood and alone! She is an individual too who likes to go her own way!
She is also a Doctor Who fan and who remembers which Doctor is the one to meet Vincent in one of the episodes??
Hope she will love it, and as she gets ready to go to uni next year, I hope it will remind her of home and family and all the love we feel for her.
She is interested in Cosmology and is a bit of a star herself in my eyes!
I'm linking this post to Quilt Story, see my sidebar for the button - see you there!
