Bloggers Quilt Festival Spring 2013 - Doublesided QAYG Flora Quilt

Hello all,

yes, believe it or not but it's time for the next Bloggers Quilt Festival on Amy's Creative Side and I can't wait to check out all the lovely quilts that are entered.

I decided to enter my reversible QAYG Flora Quilt as I consider this my greatest achievement of the last few months. It took me forever and made me curse out loud so many times. Well, maybe getting a bit of recognition for it from my fellow quilters will help me get over the trauma. :)

But finally this quilt is finished, it honestly almost broke my back and brought me to the brink of giving up on quilting altogether. It was a nightmare to make and ended up being much bigger than I am normally comfortable with. (we have a tiny tiny flat which means I find it almost impossible to make larger quilts).

Once again I made a reversible quilt with 2 very different designs on front and back. On the front I used lots of colorful Phillip Jacobs fabrics and on the back I used Flora and Fauna fabrics by Patty Young, one of my favorite lines of all time.

Making the blocks was not bad, they are all 12" wide and were really fun to make, quilting the blocks was a doddle and so much fun. The difficulty is attaching the blocks to each other. Again, the blocks were not too bad but sewing the rows together made me curse out loud many times.

But it is done and that will be the last QAYG project for a while. Well, let's see.

I hope you like it. I'd love it if you could nominate this quilt.

It is entirely pieced and quilted by myself on a domestic sewing machine.

Special technique: Quilt as you go - reversible - 2 in 1 Quilt

Lots of love,
Nadine

The back (or front??? I can never decide which is back and front, but from the way it was intended and sewn this would be the back)

and the front again:

8 new quilts

Hello all,

I am currently in a quilt-making frenzy, or rather, I am frantically working my way through the unfinished projects pile and have now actually finished 8 quilts which had been waiting to be quilted and bound for some time. Pheew.

So here they are, I hope you like them. Sorry to be so short in this post, but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves (as I am knackered). I might just tell you a bit more about these some other day.

I have listed 7 of them in the shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/QuiltedBlissByNadine where you can see some more pictures of them. 

Lots of love,
Nadine

Quilt pics

Hello all,

I have revisited some of my quilts and took some new pictures in line with the photos I have in my shop. Apparently the best shops on Etsy use a lot of white backgrounds and images with white backgrounds are more likely to be use din treasuries. So fingers crossed this will make my shop look better. What do you think?

Lots of love.
Nadine

PS: I have finally taken some pictures of my last 8 quilts and have also completed a pillow cover I really want to share with you. So watch this space, will show you soon.

Fresh Sewing Day (again)

QAYG Flora Quilt

I already uploaded this quilt for the last Fresh Sewing Day but I think I was very late in the game and have therefore decided to just show this one again as I haven't had a chance to take photos of my latest finished.

http://lilysquilts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/fresh-sewing-day-and-small-blog-meet.html

Pheeewwww, finally this quilt is finished, it honestly almost broke my back and brought me to the brink of giving up on quilting altogether. It was a nightmare to make and ended up being much bigger than I am normally comfortable with.

Once again I made a reversible quilt with 2 very different designs on front and back. On the front I used lots of colorful Phillip Jacobs fabrics and on the back I used Flora and Fauna fabrics by Patty Young, one of my favorite lines of all time.

Making the blocks was not bad, they are all 12" wide and were really fun to make, quilting the blocks was a doddle. The difficulty is attaching the blocks to each other. Again, the blocks were not too bad but sewing the rows together made me curse out loud many times. The strips just sort of wrinkled as I sewed them on, maybe a problem with the sewing machine, feet too tight or something, and the strips on the back did not always cover the stitches from below. Very annoying. I pride myself in the quality of my quilting and this is simply not up to my standard.

But it is done and that will be the last QAYG project for a while.

Lots of love,
Nadine