I've been sewing like a crazy lady over the past couple of months and I can finally post photos!
A very dear friend of mine recently married her wonderful man. In my haze of happiness for her I thought it would be a wonderful thing to sew them a quilt. I've never made a quilt before and have been sewing long enough to know that I should have modest ambitions - but still have ambitions!
So I made a queen size quilt, but in fairly large squares.
I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I know it isn't perfect, but it was all sewn by me (with colour and pinning help from MH!), even the quilting to sandwich all the layers together (I sewed straight lines every 10cm). I learnt a lot, including that it may be some time before I make a quilt again! I now understand how much time, effort and money goes into making a quilt so better appreciate why hand made quilts are so expensive to buy.
I was so pressed for time getting the quilt finished before the
wedding that I didn't even have the opportunity to take photos until
after we left home and arrived at the our accommodation (the wedding was
in beautiful Tasmania). Please excuse the wrinkles from being stuffed into a suitcase for the flights from Canberra to Hobart!
I machine stitched the binding in place.
I used a gold beige colour to match the gold flecks that were in a lot of the fabrics.
My friend became quite emotional when I gave it to her. I know it is because she appreciates the thought and effort that went into making the quilt, so that was really lovely. I encouraged her to use it because I would rather it get well loved through dirt and damage than sit unseen in a cupboard (and who knows, maybe I'll make her another one one day...!).
