Skinny Strip Quilt

When I saw this quilt pattern I instantly fell in love with it. It has all the colors of the rainbow! I just want to make one, as I could already imagining myself snuggle up in this quilt on the couch. After a quick check of my fabric stash,  I have some left over strips from a jelly roll which is perfect for this project.

I had so much fun arranging the strips, it is a great exercise on playing with different colors and see what color combination works well and what you don't like. I also love how the solids gives a clear, crisp shape and without the distraction of prints.

As for the back of this quilt I pulled out one of my favourite fabric called Crosshatch Sketch from Timeless Treasure. It is a tone-on-tone fabric with crosshatch / imperfect sketch-like grid that gives the quilt a bit more texture and depth.

After making many quilts for children and friends I think I will keep this one for myself!

Thank you for stopping by!

Cheers,
Erica.

Do you remember...

Do you remember the very first quilt that you made? I started quilting about four year ago when my son was nearly one year old. I have no previous sewing or quilting experience and I pretty much learn as I go ever since. My sister did a beginner lesson in quilting and she pass some of her knowledge to me. The first quilt I made somehow I choose to do applique (from this book) and instead of making a baby sized quilt I made a large quilt top. I never finish it until now.

Part of me is really embarrassed to show you this quilt top, as I can pick up so many mistakes in it, but part of me also believe that it is important to look back and see how much we have grown in terms of our quilting skills, color selection, and, perhaps in the process, finding our own design and styles.

Anyway, back to trying to finish this quilt, this is what I have designed to quilt on this quilt top. The sashing around the applique squares I took the design from here and recreated it into a tulip flower cross, with 4 small hearts in the middle.

For the outer border I really want to try free motion quilting some swirls so I purchased Angela Walters' Craftsy Class "Machine Quilting Negative Space" to help me get started. The class was excellent as she takes you through the process step-by-step visually, and I did watch certain parts again as I got stuck around the corners but it didn't take long for me to get it right.

As you can see for the bottom half of the border I use swirls combine with leaf design (from Angela's class) and the top half I quilt straight line with little circle. I think the two designs blend well together and quilting swirls isn't so scary anymore. Thanks to Angela Walters!

Thank you for stopping by!

Cheers, Erica

Thea's puzzle quilt.

It was love at first sight when I sew this quilt pattern from Amy Butler's design and I drop off all other projects to work on this one. It is so simple and yet so lovely. Picking out the colors are the best part of the process. I am currently in love with the colors of teal/mermaid and sea green so those are my starting point. Then the rest of the colors follows from my stash.

  

For the back I decided to do some improv log cabin echoing the colors used from the front of the quilt, and keep it simple but wonky.