Sunday, July 15, 2012

the kitteh love the quilt

Charlie's quilt is more-or-less finished, except that it's a continuing work in progress as I add some hand-quilting detail with perle cotton. That is, when I can find the quilt unoccupied by boy and/or feline.



Elodie was rather suspicious of me hanging it on the line for a photo.


No really, I'm not looking at it, this is not bothering me at all.



The fabric is Tula Pink's Prince Charming, for my boy who loves frogs and green. Plus a couple of linens: one from the stash (Japanese I think) and some chocolate linen from the shop-around-the-corner.

There's a reasonable amount of wonkiness, which I don't mind since the original rows of patterned fabrics were bothering me a bit with their... straightness. The stretchiness of the linens and the wanderings of Charlie's sewing together of all the rows have given it that handmade look I prefer. (Even if I have had to patch up a few seam holes.)

It's rather jolly vast - longer than my washing line will wind up off the ground - and wasn't the easiest thing to manipulate under the machine to quilt along each row.


And I think I'll keep going with the perle cotton stitching for quite a while. The more I do the more I like it (and the more it distracts from the imperfect machine quilting). And wow, I've never used perle cotton before. It's so much lovelier than standard embroidery thread to use. And isn't hand stitching soothing? Hand quilting by the fire is something I can see myself doing for many winters to come.

- Jane x

11 comments:

  1. Wow - that is one big quilt! Charlie's going to love it! And it looks fantastic...I'm a big fan of a little wonkiness!

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  2. All round gorgeousness! And your cat voice is hilarious. I think the perle cotton stitching looks so lovely too - and I agree about hose nice it is to sit and do some handsewing every now and then. Especially over winter. Nice one.

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  3. Beautiful quilt - love the colors. I can't believe you have a fabric shop that close. How tempting must that be?

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  4. A Handsewn quilt really is an object of love -lucky boy ( and cat !) Love the frogs . I quite like hand sewing too -it is relaxing.

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  5. Great fabric colours. I love hand sewing too. It soothes the soul.

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  6. It looks beautiful. Elodie has excellent taste! I once read that the Amish build at least one wonky bit into every quilt to show that it has been made by human hands. They were definitely onto something. :)

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  7. I love the colours and the fact that you've made the backing look good too (I'm always fed up by that point and use a sheet just to get it finished). Very neat hand sewing!

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  8. The quilt turned out beautifully! I am a bit fan of "modern quilting" where nothing is particularly simetrical or straight. The wonkier the better I say! Great fabric choice too, - green (my favourite colour!)

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  9. Many thanks everyone! I now understand the joy of making a quilt for a person who loves it :)

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  10. I love it! It's beautiful. Well done.

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