My obsession with Quiltography

Hello everyone,
I am sharing something with you today that is very dear to my heart and has given me so much joy over the last 2 years or so. My Quiltography app on the iPad.

It is so much fun to play with block designs and quilt concepts or to experiment with color schemes. I can spend hours on it and it pisses the Monkey off when I am on my Quiltography in the evening when he wants us to watch a good film or a TV show. He hate sit with a passion, but only because I can't keep away from it too long.

This is the finished layout for the stars quilt published in QuiltNow (and now living in its forever home with a lovely customer in the US).

I love that I can upload my whole stash and then play with blocks made with images of my stash ( I have to admit though, I have given up on uploading everything I own (my stash is huge and it would probably break the iPad).

I can also create my own blocks or use traditional blocks the app already provides.

Here you can see the concepts and blocks and the finished quilt layout for the improv quilt that was published in QuiltNow (not sure which one, would have to check).

I know the app is quite pricey but I think it is worth every penny.

Let me know if you use it as well and how you get on with it.

Lots of love,
Nadine

PS: This post is not sponsored, the app designers are not aware of my passionate love for their product.

4 New Quilts

Hello all,
I have just listed a few new quilts, well not so new quilts, but mainly ones I just haven't shared with anyone.

The first one is a quilt that was published in Quilt Now, a baby quilt.

The second one is my Star Quilt, also featured in Quilt Now.

And the last 2 quilts are new quilts that are a bit larger than my usual quilts and ones I will be very sad to let go.

The Totem Quilt (love the swirls quilting)

The Tipi Quilt

Two more quilts in Quilt Now!

Hello everyone,

I do apologize for keeping you in the dark lately but as a lot of my quilting projects are for publication I can't really share my secret sewing with you, yet.

But 2 recently finished quilt shave now been shown in Quilt Now and I am so excited I can finally share them with you.

My Flee Market Fancy Stars quilt was published in issue 11.

And the Crosses Quilt was published in issue 12. This is the quilt I was raving about in my Kona Solids WiP post recently. I hope you like it.

I absolutely love how both of them were photographed and displayed in the magazine. I absolutely love the crosses quilt, it is so modern and vibrant and I can't wait to ge tit back and use it around the house.

There are several other quilts coming up soon so keep your eyes on the magazine. I have also finished a number of projects for the shop and will share those with you very soon.

Lots of love,
Nadine

Kona solids WiP

 

Hello everyone, 

oh I can't tell you how excited I am about this quilt. It is actually finished now and not a WiP but when I took these photos it obviously wasn't. And it looks like this quilt will also be featured in Quilt Now at some point so I decided not to show you the end result. YET. Just wait for the magazine and see it there. :)

But even these progress shots are just gorgeous, no? I can't tell you how much I love Konas and black and white fabrics together. There is something about that look that really appeals to me.

 

 Auditioning fabrics and cutting them is one of my favorite steps. Although I have a real problem cutting into my most precious collections and if you follow this blog (or Facebook, Flickr, Instagram etc.) you might have noticed that I tend to use collections that are now a few years old as it took me so long to actually get them out, stop drooling over them and use some.

It is a pretty simple design, nothing special really. But most of my quilts are not too complicated designs, I prefer modern quilts that let the fabrics shine. I still haven't done any curves, nor have I tried paper piecing yet. But it is all on my to do list.

And some fabric porn at the very end. Aren't these colors lovely? I have some Kona bundles that I just can't cut into at all as they look so perfect bundled up.

So keep your eyes peeled (what a strange expression?) and I will share the finished quilt with you once it has been published in Quilt Now.

Lots of love,
Nadine

English Country Garden Quilt in Quilt Now

... and tada, my latest quilt in the previous issue of Quilt Now. I think this is actually my favorite of the quilts published so far. I love how it was shot and how the colors come across in the pictures.

It is actually a super simple design, but I think it is quite effective. And as far the fabric, well, if you've been following the blog you know I love all the Rowan, Kaffe Fassett, Amy Butler, Phillip Jacobs I can get.

I think these colors go really well together and believe it or not, but I still have some more of these fabrics. So you'll see another quilt made with these fabrics at some point.

This quilt is actually about the largest size I can baste in my craft room and I hate basting (you might have noticed in other posts or on Instagram :). The one thing about quilting I can't stand at all and basting this quilt was, well, as usual with larger quilts, a nightmare. And I have just finished a quilt top that is actually too large to baste in my craft room. I will have to find a solution for that or else it will remain a quilt top only.

I hope you like this quilt and maybe you have even seen it in Quilt Now. Oh, and if you haven't yet you should get a subscription, and gte it soon as you receive a free Aurifil Thread Set of Priory Square Threads by Katy Jones with your subscrition. They are gorgeous and it's a very good offer.

Lots of love,
Nadine

My first published quilt, hurrah

Hello all,

I hope you had a lovely holiday and a good start to the new year. I am currently quilting like crazy, or binding rather, but I wanted to show you my Orange Teach Quilt which has been published in the latest issue of Quilt Now. You can imagine how chuffed I am with that. 

I do have to apologize though, I have to say, describing the steps of making a quilt in words is so hard. I personally never read quilt patterns or instructions. I might look at some pictures for inspiration but never bother with quilt maths or verbal instructions. So naturally, writing them is a nightmare for me. Thanks to Katy for editing the things I write and getting them into a more accurate English, it's not my first language after all.

But on to the quilt, I absolutely love this one. I just grabbed a bunch of fabrics and cut into them (hence the problems with then writing instructions AFTERWARDS, duh). I wanted to make a slightly larger quilt compared to my usual baby quilts and I wanted the blocks to be quite large too. It ended up quite random and scrappy in the end and I really like that. It was not a traditional block design and the overall pattern developed more organically.

Well, you can see the result. I did use my quiltography when I planned this quilt. I use it a lot these days and absolutely love it. I can spend hours on the app playing with the designs and fabrics.

Some progress shots. I varied the quilting on this quilt with some of the shapes in the middle being quilted in 1/4" apart straight lines and others in lines that are 1 inch apart.

Ok, now back to my binding. I am determined to use up some fabrics to make room for new additions to the stash in 2015. So have yourselves a lovely crafty weekend.

Nadine