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Completed brown-and-gold lap quilt
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via_ostienseI've finished the brown-and-gold lap quilt!
( Pictures underneath the cut )
Yesterday,troisroyaumes and her mother had bluerabbit, S., and myself over for an amazing dinner celebrating 추석 (harvest moon festival) and troisroyaumes' birthday, and while I was slipstitching the edge shut, someone asked if the quilt was done. I said no, one more side needed to be stitched, and then unfolded it to do the next side, and found out that actually, all four border edges were done! Yay!
The pattern is from a book on quilt block patterns; you can see that the seams rarely align, and many of the patches are of different sizes (the small squares are supposed to be the same size; the big squares are supposed to be the same size; and the rectangles are supposed to be the same size), so I machine-quilted more or less along the vertical and horizontal seam lines, instead of diagonally across the square patches, as the original pattern called for. The fabric came from the super discounted bolt-end section at the fabric store, and luckily, I found some fabrics that were complementary to each other. I'm excited to have finally finished this quilt, and working on it helped me figure out my tastes and come up with designs for new projects--browns and golds and traditional American quilt patterns are all well and good, but I'm envisioning a large quilt with boldly contrasting colors and enormous, asymmetrical, sharp-angled patches for my next quilt. :D
Out of curiosity, do any of y'all have tips on how to make patches the same size and neatly slipstitch? My slipstitches pucker the border and resemble tiny, widely spaced whip stitches rather than being invisible. As for the patches, I measured and cut them with a rotary cutter, ruler, and cutting mat, but they're still irregular.
( Pictures underneath the cut )
Yesterday,
troisroyaumes and her mother had bluerabbit, S., and myself over for an amazing dinner celebrating 추석 (harvest moon festival) and troisroyaumes' birthday, and while I was slipstitching the edge shut, someone asked if the quilt was done. I said no, one more side needed to be stitched, and then unfolded it to do the next side, and found out that actually, all four border edges were done! Yay!The pattern is from a book on quilt block patterns; you can see that the seams rarely align, and many of the patches are of different sizes (the small squares are supposed to be the same size; the big squares are supposed to be the same size; and the rectangles are supposed to be the same size), so I machine-quilted more or less along the vertical and horizontal seam lines, instead of diagonally across the square patches, as the original pattern called for. The fabric came from the super discounted bolt-end section at the fabric store, and luckily, I found some fabrics that were complementary to each other. I'm excited to have finally finished this quilt, and working on it helped me figure out my tastes and come up with designs for new projects--browns and golds and traditional American quilt patterns are all well and good, but I'm envisioning a large quilt with boldly contrasting colors and enormous, asymmetrical, sharp-angled patches for my next quilt. :D
Out of curiosity, do any of y'all have tips on how to make patches the same size and neatly slipstitch? My slipstitches pucker the border and resemble tiny, widely spaced whip stitches rather than being invisible. As for the patches, I measured and cut them with a rotary cutter, ruler, and cutting mat, but they're still irregular.
