From the sewing room

This was finished quite a while back. A big machine quilting project. I've seen lots of 'super-sized' blocks, and I've long admired the bold 'colourfield' style amish quilts, so decided to give this idea a try. Not bad...not brilliant, but not bad. 

Making this was quite an insight into whole-cloth quilting - I'd hoped to make it quicker and easier by using the machine, but it was jolly hard work and I'm not entirely convinced that it was worth it: but that has more to do with my choice of quilting design than anything else, as well as inexperience and the difficulties of quilting large pieces on a domestic machine. Still, I've developed a new fondness for patterned fabric and the associated camouflaging properties!

Here's the back. 

Here is the little white-on-white. 

And this is another go at the 'origami fold-map cushion' design, with hand embroidered label. Quilting design is the fold-map pattern of the flapping bird 'logo' on the tab.

Super-sizing

I've noticed a few 'scaled up block' quilts knocking around the 'net. I like the simplicity of the idea and the boldness of the effect, so I thought I'd give super-sizing try.

And I'm pleased! It's got a kind of Amish-ness about it too, with the big plain blocks of colour.

Not sure how I'm going to quilt this up yet. Machine is tempting - there's a lot of yardage there! - but I'm not totally convinced I can make a good job of it on my domestic machine. I may have to knock up a practise quilt to get the hang of working with large expanses.

The pink is actually my duvet, but it looks good to me so if this doesn't get an extra border, it may well get a pink binding. It's square and almost 'double bed' sized (the bed is kingsize). I'm half-tempted to give it another border to size it up just that little bit more.