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Quilt details Name, Recipient, Size, Start/Finished date, Pattern and Fabrics used The One for Emma for Emma Collander, for her birthday 2018. 140 x 152 cm (length x height). 22.7 - 1.10.2018. variant of a modern HST quilt About the fabrics used for the quilt top Solids in 6 colors of violet and orange from my stash. "Remix Geometry in Sunset" by Alison Glass for Andover Fabrics". Donated triangles in a neutral white color from Arbis' stash. Leftover piece of violet used for making a skinny border 1. Largest piece of orange fabric I had used for making border 2. Binding was made out of parts from a violet shirt bought second hand. Batting, backing and binding fabric: Single layer of thinnest (40 g) polyester batting from Kruunun Kangas. The quilt back is a donated bed linen fabric from my mom.  Binding was made out of 5 cm wide violet fabric strips. Quilting pattern: Center quilted by doing fillers on the neutral fabric on the HST, a...

Oh happy day - the borders have been added! And I think they turned out great. I'm truly amazed by the fact that I - after reading up on color theory and then trying my best while also using an app tool to help - actually managed to create a quilt with a color palette that WORKS! Even the scrappy fabrics I've used for the hexie flowers work together well. On the overview photo some of them look a bit muted, and some of the oranges are so bright they shine, but close up the effect is much better.  Oranges, browns and red. With pink, and some odd greens, light blue and a few yellows. Writing that down makes it sound like an insane mix. The patterns on the fabrics are also an insane mix: florals, geometrics, polka dots, stripes, pastoral idylls and solids. Also, and in this I'm thankful for all the comments I got on Instagram for these photos, I noticed that I've chosen autumn colors. Without thinking. Visa det här...

Guess what? I sewed the the center together on two course lessons at Arbis! Here's two photos, one without any flowers on, and one with. I really like how it came together. Most points actually also match up - go me!  I only have 8 flowers left to do. Then I have 46. Wish me luck on those ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE ask permission BEFORE you PUBLICLY copy anything from my blog. All images, all my text, and content that I specifically haven't referenced as belonging to someone else on this site are my property and they cannot be used, copied or transmitted without my consent. The exception here is Pinterest, because I give you permission to pin my photos there IF YOU CITE THEM AS COMING FROM THIS BLOG AND THUS FROM ME. I understand that Pinterest is useful for saving tutorials and photos for quilting inspiration, because I use it that way myself, and I'm okay with you doing that too - but PLEASE: "cite when you write". Give the creator some...

There are times when something (that something in this case being a social media event) gets you interested, but you only join up when are pulled in by sheer gravitas as you start to see the physical representations of that event. That made no sense to you? Okay, but if I say that a quilt-along/stitch-along social media event pulled me in when I started seeing the quilts people were creating? Does it make more sense now? Anyway, searching for #kingfisherstitchalong on Instagram will show you lots of pretty. And even though I had already decided NOT to take part in it, back before the summer started and the event was announced and kicked off, well...I obviously changed my mind. And instead cut out the background pieces for the quilt one day before the event was to officially end. I thought, while I was feeling really ”off” in my head (because my therapy had only just begun), that ”I could try to just make the quilt out of things in my stash” and ”I think I can...