blankets

[ironymaiden]

the quilt
Originally uploaded by green eyed so and so.

i've been working on this quilt sporadically for a little less than two years. it's definitely not the first project i've finished, but it's the first one i started. it all started so innocently, when C's friend's wife offered to use quilting to teach me to use a sewing machine. from the computer right now i can see at least four things that i've made in the other room, and scarlettina can attest to my mildly obsessive fabric collecting.
today i made pillow covers, to take a break from hand finishing my laptop sleeve.
the next quilt top has been on hold since last year; i'll start in again on it shortly. it's throw-sized as well, and i would like to donate it to a charity auction. i'm not sure when it will be done, of course, but i'd like to start collecting suggestions of who has both a worthy cause and the right audience so that it might fetch some real money. (asian-themed patterned fabrics, mostly burgundy and other earth tones. contemporary feel.)

Comments

[varina8.livejournal.com]

You have a terrific eye. My grandmother quilted and I know how difficult even a throw-sized piece can be to make, This one is lovely.

On the topic of worthy causes, in the past the Friends of the King County Library used quilts as fundraisers. I don't know if this is still true.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Very pretty!

My cube-neighbor at work quilts, and has her work hanging out along the aisles.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

It's even prettier in real life, though this pic definitely shows the pattern off to good advantage.

I like varina8's suggestion of friends of the library.

BTW, I stopped by In The Beginning (which I realize now I always thought was a maternity shop!) and got apron fabric. I think you'll dig it. Still need to pick up bias tape, which should be sometime today. Yay!

[msanborn.livejournal.com]

it's gorgeous!

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

I don't know who you should donate it to, but I know who should buy it... Me!

It sounds awesome, keep me posted.

[bdkellmer.livejournal.com]

that's gorgeous.

I've always wanted to try my hand at quilting -- any books on the subject that you can recommend?

[ironymaiden]

i really like this one. the book is focused on smaller projects made from fat quarters, which are those little packets of fabric you see for sale in fabric stores (a half-yard of fabric cut in half, making a less oblong quarter-yard). it has good instructions for choosing fabrics, piecing, and finishing, but it doesn't have much info on the actual quilting process. it also is free of cutesy country crap.
my current project is the pattern on the cover.

[dreamline.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful!

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful!