I am Lily - stitcher and part time bookseller. Mother to my gorgeous girl, Abigail and wife to Julian. I make time each day to let my imagination potter and add quirky prettiness and handmade comfort to our home and lives. You can email me at lily(at)blockaday(dot)com
the chinese coins are finished - and a little giveaway …
Weeeeeeeee!!!!!!! I’ve finished my first quilt for the year!
My Chinese Coins Quilt with a green, spring flavour is ready for Calamity Kim’s Doll Quilt Challenge.
The colours are looking a lot more subdued on photo than they are in reality - it is yet another grey, rainy morning in the Sunshine State.
Never mind - here’s my carrots - madly in love with them …
… they are wool carrots and felt leaves, naively appliqued and embellished with dmc thread.
Here’s my eggs - yum …
… they too are wool and I am really pleased how they poofied up.
And check out my mitred corners! Sorry to sound so boastful, but this is the first time I have made proper binding and mitred the corners - and it worked!
I even tried my hand at some free hand quilting (see, it’s the wobbly bit up the middle green strip ;-) - it was working kind of cute - but I didn’t get very far …
When I become better at it - and not so pain-stakingly slow, I’ll revisit the Chinese Coins and do some more.
Thank you Calamity Kim for such a beautiful challenge - I cannot wait for the next one!
Now as a celebration for finishing a quilt - maybe this will become a tradition! - the first two comments left for this post, will receive a sweet quilted treat from the Tumbledown House.
27 March, 2008 at 1:38 am
I greatly admire your charming Chinese coins quilt! Your carrots and eggs, in particular, are the stuff of legend! Lovely!
27 March, 2008 at 5:40 am
What a precious little spring quilt! You are so very creative it just takes my breath away. People call me creative and I just say I copy well - can’t think of original designs at all. Isn’t working with wool just so much fun! When I was doing a bunch of Jan Patek quilts a couple years ago I used felted wool for any little applique details I didn’t want to try to needleturn. Gives the project such a great variety of textures!
27 March, 2008 at 9:02 am
Oh Lily! How wonderful it turned out. So glad to see it finished. Lovely pictures. And great free motion quilting! Take care. u
27 March, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Hello!
I produce a (mostly) quilt related podcast titled ‘within a quarter inch’ and I like to review blogs for (mostly) each (mostly) weekly episode.
I am a working mom of 16 month old twins and I just love to quilt and craft. This podcast is my little corner of sanity check and where I get to share my love of quilting with those who understand (as opposed to those in my ‘real’ life that pretend to understand!).
I am hoping for your permission to review your blog during one of my episodes. It’s a feature I call ‘blog of the pod’ and so far, the 2 (I said mostly!) I have reviewed were very pleased with the results.
Thanks for your kind attention,
Allison
28 March, 2008 at 3:16 am
It’s wonderful! It always feels so good to have a completed project. And, this one is truly something to be proud of.
30 March, 2008 at 8:05 am
Oh my I just love this quilt.
The carrots are just adorable….your color choices in this quilt are amazing! Love it!
great corners :) I just found your blog off to read your past posts hope to see lots more of your quilts!
Kathie
19 August, 2008 at 1:23 pm
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