Small miracles
Lilly's little memory quilt is finished. It came together pretty quickly in the end, once all the interfacing and fussy cutting was done. Blimey, sewing knits to regular woven cotton is tricky. Even with the stabilising influence of the interfacing there was still a fair bit of stretching and wriggling going on. I have never been more thankful for my walking foot!
The quilting is really simple squares, stitched in the ditch. It's quite heavy and I wanted it to stay as cuddly and soft as possible. I broke a bit of a personal rule and machine finished the binding for a change. I figured that it would be getting a lot of use, and if I waited until I had time to hand finish it then Lilly would be about 37.
I took a sneaky day off from work and puppy duties yesterday to go to the Festival of Quilts. It was a lovely day out, although I will admit to feeling a little bit disappointed with the competition quilts. We need to stage an invasion next year, I think. The level of skill on show was amazing, particularly in the minis (tiny TINY flying geese, about 3 mm high. Seriously - how is that even possible?) but it would be lovely to see more modern quilts on show. Roll on Quiltcon!
It looks great, but yes, I can imagine the knit to cotton thing would have been quite frustrating!
ReplyDeleteIt's so sweet - what a great job! You make the knits to cotton thing look easy.
ReplyDeleteI agree re your last comment.
ReplyDeleteLove the baby quilt! Your right about the quilts - sadly.
ReplyDeleteWell done for finishing the baby clothes quilt! It is very sweet. I agree on the modern quilts, maybe LMQG could do a group entry? Have they released the 2013 themes yet? Shevvy can advise re quilt police rules.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the large number of traditional quilts, and lack of modern at the festival, it really could do with a large influx of modern quilters to mix things up a bit!!
ReplyDeleteI agree! You in?
DeleteYeah, why not!!
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DeleteOoh, are you going to Quilt Con? Me too! would love to meet you.
ReplyDeleteLooks very pretty and soft and cuddly.
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty Charlotte and am sure Lily's mummy appreciates not having to wait until she's 37 either ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhat's this about quiltcon? That is an uber cute quilt!
ReplyDeleteSweet memories! So pretty. Aneela's prints looks so good in the mix. Lucky baby. And lucky you, too. A visit to Birmingham sounds great!
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I was there on Friday, may have seen you without realising. I loved the minis, they were wonderful.
ReplyDeletethey really were so amazing!
Delete~absolutely agree about some more modern quilts - I appreciate the talent and skill but we NEED to get quilting & stitch appreciated more and having modern contemporary quilts in exhibition would do this!
ReplyDeletelet's do it!
DeleteGreat finish on your memory quilt.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am v glad to hear that you had a great FoQ day.
I'm not sure that an invasion would work but I think maybe we should start a revolution {or perhaps just beg the Fat Quarterly crew to start a Modern British Quilt Show}.
It looks great - well done for sneaking in some sewing time ;-) x
ReplyDeleteOh, what a gorgeous quilt!! (I'm going to show my friend - see if she would like one for her little girl!)
ReplyDeleteLily must just adore her memory quilt because it's just too gorgeous for words and you have worked so hard on it.
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