Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

Since I knew that I was going to need some hand-sewing projects to take with me for our family's summer vacation trips during the summer, I tried during April-May to prepare blocks and templates for as many of my EPP (English paper piecing) projects as I had time for. (Like in the photo above, where I'm trying to mend my daughter's unicorn horn and stitching on some blocks for Secret Hearts .) If you check my current WIPs and UFOs in April , I had a total of 6 active(ish) EPP projects at the start of summer: the Second Christmas quilt ( started ) R(ed) is for Rita ( started ) My Secret Hearts 2019 birthday quilt ( started ) The ”Lucy’s Terrace”-quilt ( not yet started ) A spring/summer version of the Kingfisher quilt ( not yet started ) the Farmer's Wife 1920 quilt ( not yet started ) Since then, I must say it’s nice to see how much progress you get done if you happen to have everything prepped and ready to sew. I don’t know how those who whip-stitch th...

Quilt details Name of quilt and Recipient: "You, Me and the Sun",  for Janika Sund Size and Timeline 154 x 153 cm (length x height). timeline quilt top started on June 28th and was done on June 29th. quilt was basted on June 30th. machine-quilted with free motion quilting June 30th and July 1st. bound by machine on July 1st label appliqued on the quilt top already June 28th and embroidered details were added at the same time. Pattern and Fabrics used: No pattern, just an idea of a giant sun or compass that I thought up. About the fabrics used for the quilt top Background is a blue solid that was the biggest piece of blue solid I could find in my stash. I think it was fabric meant to be used to make bed linens. Every single piece of fabric to make the quilt top came from my stash, and I had my little 3 y o son help me choose the fabrics. "Blue!" was the main color he wanted, so (no too childish) blue, gray and green fabric...

The semi-official theme I've kinda chosen for my focus this year is  hand-sewing . Lots of American bloggers seem hard on having these "words of the year", but I think I'm gonna stick to my "crafting themes of the year" instead ;) ⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟ June has been so busy for my family: me taking two pedagogy courses at Hangö Sommauni in Hanko and trying to get school work for that done, us spending Midsummer week at a rented cabin close to my parents, and me trying to find time to quilt. Good thing was, I got my  Defiant finished already on June 3rd, before all these things started happening! But, let's review: ⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟ These are my WIPs ⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟⧟ 1. Violet and Orange Sawtooth Stars (aka the Odd blocks color quilt nr 2) Progress:  no more progress since last months, because I concentrated on the hand-quilting and hand-sewing ones and building the hand-quilting frame.  Schedule:   2. Violet Evergarden ...