This week one of my best friends married! CONGRATULATIONS!!! The quilt above is my wedding present. I wanted to give them something special, to show how happy I am for them that they’ve found each other. So naturally, I referred back to quilting. This quilt symbolizes how their love for music binds them together. Although…
Earlier I wrote a post about how I made the quilt above: Spiralling near madness with the spiral lone star quilt Well, I made it into a bag now! This piece had been lying around forever because I was not sure what to do with it. Finally, in some kind of finishing frenzy, I decided…
The piles of fabric on top is all the fabric one can get out of eight generous man’s shirts. Shirts are wonderful to work with because of the nice patterns and usually, when a shirt is too old to wear, there is still enough good fabric for a quilt. How nice shirt fabric is to…
It’s the last month of June already! Gosh, time is going quick. My room is turning simultaneously chaotic and empty because I am preparing to move at the end of July. Isn’t that a strange thing: chaos and more space at the same time? This does mean that I have to pack up some of…
Never throw away interesting looking fabric! I’ll prove that piece of wisdom in this post. A friend gave me her old faux leather jacket to put into the quilt I’m making for her (see this post: The big quilt for a lovely friend). However, she only wanted part of the back in the quilt. The rest of…
Another week, another Dear Jane post! The Dear Jane is a big sampler quilt I am sewing by hand to practice my quilting technique. A sampler is good for that, because it has many different blocks, using many different techniques. You can read the introduction of this quilt here: The Dear Jane quilt: a hand quilting…
Another month has passed and a lot of creativity has happened in that time! I’ve been very busy preparing fieldwork for my thesis for university, planning a wedding (not my own) and lots of other stuff. For my fieldwork, I plan to go to Kenya for four months in August. My research will be focused on…
Disclaimer: this is the perfect post for people who just want to look at beautiful pictures Now I’ve worked my way through almost half(!) of the square blocks of my Dear Jane I’ve started to notice some recurring basic patterns and variations. Therefore, I thought it would be nice to show some of those in…
Let’s start with a bold statement: paper piecing is way easier as patchwork, applique or any other quilting technique. This might be because it’s the first technique my mother taught me, but that is not all (my first block was a paper piece log cabin block). There are some key benefits to paper piecing. Paper piecing…
This is a surprise article as a teaser for my upcoming post this weekend where I talk about the sewing of this project! I use the rose quilt as my profile picture a lot, so it makes sense to talk about its creation. This is a revised version of an earlier article. In this post,…
