Monday, August 13, 2012

{handstitched}...Still going strong

One of our last projects for Handstitched class was a whole cloth baby quilt with the quilting done by hand. Rachel did a magnificent improve design using irregular triangles. I had a vision of straight lines at irregular spacing with the end product looking something like plaid. I know this wonderful little boy who has a first birthday coming up, and I decided that this would be a perfect present for him!


I went with Kona Dusty Blue for the front and Kona Ash for the back. I also found these awesome lizards to use as the binding and make it a little more playful! The mini herringbone...thats just for me....it was on sale :).

I have never put the binding on a quilt prior to quilting it, so this technique was new to me. I spray basted the sandwich, sewed the binding onto the front, whipped it by hand on the back, and then I got to quilting. I drew four vertical and four horizontal lines spaced pretty far apart and sewed them first to tack the sandwich together. Next I will fill in the large spaces between the existing lines with ones that are a little more closely spaced as you can begin to see in the picture below.


Since I was photographing at night, I had a really hard time getting the appropriate amount of exposure on the front side. These two pictures are of the back, but you get the idea. Its essentially the same on both sides...my stitches are just neater on the front!


I also considered ironing the quilt before I photographed it and then I didn't. This quilt traveled 28+ hours in a car with me, camped with me, was sat on by dogs, cats, and people alike, and I thought it would be a nice change of pace to see a quilt that looks like it is being worked on. Hopefully I will finish this week and have it beautiful and ready for photographs of the finished product. 

5 comments:

  1. This looks great...wrinkles and all...:). I have my medallion quilt top finished and the scrappy back made and ready to sandwich together to hand quilt. I definitely would like to make a whole quilt cloth. I was thinking circles...sorta like a quilt I saw that Lu Summers had done using fabric. Look forward to see it finished.

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  2. This looks great...wrinkles and all...:). I have my medallion quilt top finished and the scrappy back made and ready to sandwich together to hand quilt. I definitely would like to make a whole quilt cloth. I was thinking circles...sorta like a quilt I saw that Lu Summers had done using fabric. Look forward to see it finished.

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  3. I had trouble photographing my quilting too. But, when it was all done and ironed, it went a lot easier. And I hear ya on the wrinkles! I photographed my Modern Medallion when it was being worked on with all the wrinkles in tact. There's something endearing to a quilter, I think, about those crinkles from hand quilting.

    Looks like a cool design and will enjoy seeing more!

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  4. Good luck getting to the end with it :o)

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  5. I haven't tried this yet. The little one will love it. I see kids in the hospital all the time with their homemade quilts. I have to scan them with them! Little ones know that much love went into their personal quilts. Great job.

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