Monday, May 23, 2016

City Blocks Quilt


*Boom shakalaka* Finished this City Blocks quilt. Years ago I took a photo of my friend's dog leash because it had this awesome cityscape-esque pattern. I hunted down an online pdf pattern that closely resembled it. I'm not sure where the link is anymore, but it helped me create my vision of what I saw.

And this is that: City Blocks



Saturday, May 21, 2016

Transparency Quilt

When I first got started with quilting, a friend asked for me to sew a quilt for her friends getting married. I jumped at the chance to get paid for making a quilt. I bought the book Transparency Quilts by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. I bought a sampling of fabrics to try out some color blending techniques. As I tried it out, I just wasn't satisfied with the general look. So I scrapped it, and I made this one.

And here, three years later I finally revisited the pieces I had previously sewn and finished it! Woohoo!

Check out the mixed binding fabrics

It's the rare backing where it's mostly solid/ one fabric.