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.

White on white

This white on white experiment got finished up - bar taking out the basting (you can hardly see it in these photos). I might do a bit more quilting around that border. I considered machine quilting this as the piecing is a bit shonky in places and I wasn't entirely convinced by the whole thing, so was thinking it might be good to get it out the way. But, the white on white thing sort of hides my shoddy piecing work, and I think the simple design helped make it go quite quickly. Plus, I suppose I'm getting better/quicker the more I do.

The backing and binding come from the same (now up-cycled) duvet cover, which I have been struggling to 'place'. The pattern/s and colours just didn't appeal but I'm such a frugal old so and so I have been hanging on to it as large duvets or sheets can make for lovely whole-cloth backs (or tops!). That's kind of what happened here, though the quilt isn't particularly big. Lap-sized I guess, at 89cm.