#quiltinaday
I’m always quite envious of those annoying productive types who seem to punch out a king-sized foundation peiced quilt, then FMQ’d in various colours & layers of complicated designs, and get it all done in the blink of a toddlers nap time. Plus blog it. With mulitple perfectly staged photos. You know who you are.
But yesterday, I made a decision. To make a quilt in a day. If my little project was going to find it’s intended purpose with it’s intended recipient, it needed to be finished by 1pm today. So started the “quiltinaday” project.
After a moderately quick stop at the fabric store (well, quick by fabric-store-standards!), the children were fed, watered and put to bed, the air-con in the studio turned to “Arctic” (hey, it’s was very flippin’ hot here yesterday, then add in the iron, plus me working up a sweat churning out this quilt…), and it was time to get cracking.
The key to success in this project was simplicity. I decided on a simple 3-fabric disappearing nine patch, which I could strip piece. And, so, that is how I managed to go from:
1.42pm Monday
to this:
12.38pm Tuesday:
It’s not a masterpiece, but it is already well-loved. Quilting is just straight lines, rather than the FMQ that I think would really bring this design to life. It is only a small lap quilt, around 42″ across, with very nice bamboo batting. So lovely & soft, that stuff is. The little cream border between the green inner border and pink outer border is actually a flange sandwiched in the seam, inspired by the very talented Emma.
I did it. I made a quilt in 24 hours.Proof that dreaming big actually works. Just don’t ask about the state of my house… So, this afternoon, instead of painting, or drawing, or sewing, or any other variety of creating to make messes in my nice clean studio, I am playing catch-ups. And nursing a ruptured eardrum. Ouch. Maybe I’ll just pass out in front of the air-con and watch a movie with the boys. Thanks for playing nice, Monday. That was a fun project. Let’s do it again sometime.
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Well done! Isn’t it satisfying? I’m impressed that even in the 24 hours you managed to add a flange (and it was certainly worth it, it really adds to the quilt)!
Thanks Emma! The border originally was going to be just pink, but it was too plain. So I added the 1″ green, but still too plain. I think the flange set it off perfectly! (Though I cheated and only pressed the first piece – the rest were finger-pressed after I scorched my thumbs holding the 1″ strip in half!)
That is pretty cool! Go you!
Ohhhh nice!!!
I love it! Beautiful colors!
1 Day to produce such a beautiful piece. Mate… only in my dreams.
Thanks ladies! It was really quite simple, those large strips in the first photo were joined into one ultrawide strip, then cut down into row sized pieces. I did lots of batch sewing to be as efficient as possible! The longest part was stitching down the binding…
Wow, I’m impressed. Very clever and very pretty.
I can’t beleieve you managed to hand sew the binding too 😮 well done!!! I can do a quilt top in a day, but not the rest… although – I can feel it as a challenge for 2010!!!
The quilt looks great BTW!
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