Inspired by the Moda Bakeshop

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I’ve been pondering the design for a quilt I want to make for our guest bedroom, which is also going to be my sewing room once I find a suitable desk. The room is painted a pale yellow and is full of light, but it’s currently very bare, so I want to inject some colour.

Then I came across this beauty. It’s the Boho Honeycomb Quilt designed by Erica a Kitchen Table Quilting, and it incorporates the new hexagon precuts from Moda. And that’s where I hit my first roadblock. For all my searching, I can’t find them in stock anywhere in the UK, and with shipping from the US, it’s hardly worth the convenience of not having to cut them yourself, so I’ve resigned myself to having to cut them myself – I’ll only need 36 after all, and they’re not tiny. But if anyone knows anywhere in the UK that stocks them, please let me know!

So anyway, next up was deciding on a colour scheme. I wanted to keep it fairly mellow, but not bland, and I knew I wanted to use grey for the spaces in between the hexagons. I looked at print after print after print, and couldn’t find anything that felt right. And then it occurred to me to use solids, and everything suddenly fell into place.

Here’s what I came up with:

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I’ll need about a metre of each, except for the dark grey that’s going to be the “filler” colour of which I’ll need two. I’ve not yet decided on backing or binding, but I’m a heck of a lot further on now than I was before. My next problem is that I will have to wait till my next pay-day to actually buy any of these fabrics, since my wallet needs to stay under lock and key till then.

But not to worry, I have plenty of things to occupy myself with until then. I still have to finish my two hexagon cushion covers, and two more in the same fabrics made from hst:s, some place mats for my mum, and some other bits and bobs for around the house – and I have the material for all of them already.

One finished cushion cover top. I love the fabrics and colours. I almost feel a bit sad that I have to give it away when it’s finished.

 

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A First Venture into Free Motion Quilting

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I was terrified when I sat down at the sewing machine to start putting down those squiggly little lines onto my carefully basted quilt sandwich. I started, did a whole section before I noticed that my thread tension was too loose. I had to unpick it all again – quite disheartening, but I started again, did it over and did it right. And the further I went, the better I got and the better it felt.

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I used mostly scraps for the patchwork, and it felt good to use up the little bits of fabric left over from three other projects. And I do love the texture that stippling gives to the quilt. I think I might even like it better from the back.

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As you can see I decided to add some colour to the grey back, turning the quilt somewhat reversible, depending on how playful you feel, I suppose. The grey binding works well with both the back and the front – it adds framing to the design on the front, and doesn’t distract from the simplicity of the back.

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So there you have it. My first free motion quilted quilt. I’m so proud!

It’s available to buy from my Etsy shop.

Pink Baby Quilt in Progress

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On Friday, these babies arrived, just in time as well as I needed some cheering up after falling and twisting my ankle earlier in the day. I’m better now though.

The fabrics are for two different projects, and the one I’m going to write about today is a baby quilt for a newborn baby girl. The quilt will be a simple, but very cute plus design, using a plain white cotton as the base. You get an idea of the pattern below.

Since the entire quilt is made up of square or rectangular pieces, it was fairly quick and painless to cut up. I only have an A4 cutting mat as well, so the fact that none of the pieces are very large was a big plus. I used one fat of the fat quarters to make up the binding, and off I went.

The quilt top came together far quicker than I had expected, and without any major incidents. I only had to use the seam ripper once, and only for a very minor mistake. Hooray!

Instead of making the back entirely in plain white like I had originally planned, I added a vertical row of leftover pieces from the front, and I love the effect!

But you’ll have to wait to see the finished product until the quilt is complete and has reached its new owner. I’ve still to hand stitch about half of the binding, sew on the label, take photographs and deliver it to the new parents.

Stay tuned!