Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Elka's blankets

I love quilts, but I'm not a very diligent quilter. I have trouble with the repetitiveness of making matching blocks, I'm a bit impatient with my measurements, and I generally loose interest three quarters of the way through, which results in things sitting around for years and years, or in much smaller quilts than I originally intended... but I did manage to finish 2 quilts for Elka to play on while I was pregnant, one is this scrap quilt that I started yonks ago, and the other one I started 4 years ago when I was still at uni and so I could only find time on during breaks, and it got pushed aside time and time again...
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But they are finished, and sewn together in that wonky, lazy way that would scare true-blue quilting types.

I also managed to start two new quilts along the way, both of which have come to a stand-still, the one below was just a way using up my left-over screen prints, and I decided to sew it together by hand, but considering how hot is was last summer and how enormous and impatient I became, it's still waiting for me to get back to it. I also managed to make 17 blocks of a 20 block quilt. I think they are lovely and I made them in a mad, obsessive rush, and then one day (in September) I stopped, and I don't even know where I stored them... but I'm sure they will make a lovely quilt some day...
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Lucky I have a grandmother who takes quilting seriously, who can sew triangles perfectly and who takes orders.
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Lucky me, and Lucky Elka!

B.

2 comments:

june at noon said...

Such a great collection! I especially love that second photo.

suzanne said...

Your quilts are lovely! I particularly like the first one - the fabric combinations are fab!