Quilting blogger

I'm now on there.

Quilting Blogger

Maybe someone is going to comment now! Maybe I need to do other stuff.

Quilting blogging will be a bit less in November, because I'll do NaNoWriMo (or at least try...) I'll be meeting all new people tomorrow for a first meeting of Nanos in Mannheim. It's exciting! Although I'm not sure whether I'll manage writing that many words in a coherent way... But it'll be a story with a quilt in it.

Handquilting II (There will be more... It's a bit like Rambo...)

It takes forever... I'm done about 10 %.



And this is the backside. It's some batik. Big batik fabric, so I didn't have to piece the back. And the batting is wool. It's kind of fluffy, but really nice and soft. And warm! Because it's a bit more puffy, it's also a bit harder to quilt smaller stitches. But then I don't really care about that!



But it has to be hand quilted because machine quilting makes it a bit too hard. And I want it more soft and cuddly for the couch.

And this is finally the "Owl Quilt" for Nils. It should have been geese... And I don't know what the fabric on the back is called, but it's all soft.

Handquilting

The biiiig quilt gets hand quilted. After the first hand quilting project (lap size quilt) I was pretty certain that I didn't want to go through this again. And now here I am, hand quilting the biiig quilt... Why? -- Well, I did some machine quilting on a little test-sandwich. And either I was quiting to closely or there's something else I did wrong, but the sandwich turned out to be pretty hard. (Plus my machine quilting isn't something I have practiced... So it's pretty crappy!) Then I hand quilted a bit (not that my hand quilting is that much better...) and that part turned out to be waaaay softer. So the decision was pretty clear.

And now I'm hand quilting and I'm actually finding the meditative side in this process. It's soothing. I'm letting go of the "the quilt has to be ready at some stage". I'm just doing it. It doesn't matter how far I get every session (well, actually, it does, but not while I'm doing it, but rather when I'm done for the day). It doesn't matter how tiny or big my stitches are and that the stitches over the seam allowances aren't that good looking. And I have no idea how to fix that. It's just nice to sit there with my quilt, quilting along and let my mind wander. I didn't expect this. I thought there's be lots of cursing and fretting with it and all. So I'm quite surprised! And pleasantly so!

The Owl-Quilt for Nils has reached its owner and I'll post it next post!