Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

I wrote a while back a little about my quilt project plans for the year 2019. In that post, I mentioned two things I had thought about for next year; learning more handsewing and more EPP. For those, I had thought just two projects to focus on for 2019 would be nice: the Lucy Boston ”Patchwork of the Crosses” variant called ”Lucy’s Terrace” by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth. A denim quilt with a sashiko theme. Well, best laid plans of mice and men, and all that.  Kristen Esser on her podcast ”Simple. Handmade. Everyday” mentioned in ep 15 ( link ) (which I listened to yesterday) that she and some others are planning a quilt-along for next year (starting in January) and the theme will be ”quilting by hand”. I want to take part in that. And then, while I was browsing around Pinterest, Instagram and Google for ideas about what type of denim quilt I could make... I stumbled upon Deanna Lynn Cole’s Instagram feed, where  she had just about completed all the ...

" Vasa Arbis vårutställning 8.5.2018"   With the kids (still down with the flu but feeling better anyway) and my husband Mikael in tow, I tried to capture photos of as many of the beautiful handcrafted works I could, but I missed a lot of the woodwork pieces and croquis-paintings. My  sewing teacher Carola also wrote about the exhibit , on Instagram :) And she has more photos of the woodwork I wanted to see the different quilts and patchworks most of all, and I got photos of most of them. Myself, I had given six projects to my sewing course teacher to display in the show. At the last show, last fall, I only submitted one, and I thought that this time that it would be okay for me to submit more. Three of the projects were small (two small denim bags and the Fancy Fox mini-quilt) and three were larger (the Blue Roses and Denim quilt, the Fake cathedral windows quilt and  the Cars quilt ) All the works were displayed without any maker names, so I can’t tell you who ma...

Quilt details Name, Recipient, Size, Start/Finished date, Pattern and Fabrics used The Fake cathedral windows quilt. I made it for myself. 102 x 103 cm (length x height). 2.2.2018 (the Jeans workshop course) - 29.4.2018. I free motion quilted my maternal grandmother's crocheted doilies to the blue background fabric, then used the "fake cathedral windows"-method to quilt the denim circles to them. The blue background fabric was a second hand store find I found the same Saturday the Jeans workshop ended, the crocheted doilies are ones that I inherited from my maternal grandmother, and the denim were both scraps from way back  when and also scraps provided at the course. Batting, backing and binding fabric: The fake cathedral window method is a quilt-as-you-go (QAYG) method, and the denim works as the backing and part of the quilting. I opted not to use any batting, because it would have made the already bulky quit even more difficult to handle. Binding w...

(another photo heavy post, but again, I don't think you'll mind) I read a lot of blogs. And by a lot, I mean I follow about 300+ blogs (via Bloglovin) and read blog posts mostly at night when I can't fall asleep again if the kids have woken me up. Or when I'm trying to fall asleep. Or when I desperately want to read something and I don't have enough money to buy another book on Amazon Kindle... If it's one thing - reading about other peoples quilting projects - that I've learned, it's that creative people usually start a lot of project. And some projects get finished, and some don't, and thus the dividing line of WIP:s and UFO:s (works-in-progress and unfinished objects). I keep track of mine via my own quilt planner , and I move the project pages from UFO:s to WIP:s as they stall or I feel I have too many projects going on. But I thought, maybe it would be nice to see a summary of them all. These are my WIP:s 1. the Blue Roses an...