It’s been one of those weeks where I feel like I’ve been working a lot, but have very little to show for it!
I’ve finished the basting and quilting on my landscape quilt. The only hurdle left is figuring out the binding fabric. Once I’ve figured that out, I should have this finished pretty quickly.
After I finish this up, it’s baby quilt time! I have two friends who recently had baby boys, and I’ve picked out patterns for them. Next up, choosing fabrics, my favorite part!
Linking up to Lee @ Freshly Pieced.
-Anne
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Love your landscape quilt, was thinking of doing something similar with straight lines, but much prefer your curvy ones so will be checking that out!
Oooh I bet it’d be pretty with straight lines as well. 🙂 Curvy does give a different feel, though. I’d love to see what you end up with!
i love your curved piecing and that color scheme is lovely.
Thank you, Sara! The color scheme was based on the Water bundle by Oakshotts, so that part was sort of taken care of for me. 😉 Although I did choose the order they went in!
It turned out gorgeous! Love the wavy quilting!
Thank you! It’s actually two colors of thread quilted over one another, but the colors are too close to really be able to tell. Oops! Live and learn, I suppose!
Great flow throughout! Love it!
Thank you so much! It’s been a nice bit of zen working on this quilt. 🙂 Every step requires being relaxed, which is not something I am naturally very good at. lol
baby boy quilt fabric makes me almost want to have a kid. just so i could put it on everything. how big is this landscape quilt?
I know, right?! Almost. Baby girl fabrics can get to me, too.
The landscape quilt is pretty small. I haven’t measured it recently but it’s about 2′ across by 3′ long? Maybe even smaller. It’s done with a fat-eighth pack, so I didn’t have a ton of fabric to play with. 🙂
Binding is a toughie here. I almost want to go with either an invisible binding or go bright like a burnt orange oakshott. It looks so good!
Oooh, orange isn’t something I had considered. I was thinking dark blue, but maybe invisible is the way to go. I’ve never done it before, but how hard could it be?! (famous last words)
Choosing fabrics is my favorite part as well! I love your landscape quilt and the natural curvy lines really show off the beautiful waves in the quilt!
I am stopping by from the WIP hop, my post is here if you have time to stop by 🙂 http://domesticdeficitdisorder.blogspot.com/2013/07/wip-july-17th-edition.html
If I could just pick the pattern and the fabrics and then farm out the rest except the binding, I’d be a pretty happy camper. lol
The landscape quilt has required me to be pretty relaxed for each step, which is not really a very natural state for me. But it means it’s been a really enjoyable process!
The lines and colors are beautiful. I’d hate to box them in with a binding and would face the quilt.
Thank you so much! A lot of people have mentioned invisible binding or facing the quilt, which I hadn’t even considered! I need to go look up how that’s done, but it seems like a good option. 🙂 Thanks for the advice!
Your wavy quilting is such a compliment to that curvy piecing, Anne! Did you quilt each from one side over to the other, as in left to right, or did you alternate? Binding, hmmm…. I think you should choose one of the darker solids used or one that was not a part of the design. Really I thought it would be nice to use a pieced binding that matches the pieces, but that would be too hard!
Lorna:)
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Thanks Lorna!! I quilted it in two different colors of thread (which are sadly too similar so it’s hard to tell.) I did one color in its entirety and then did the other one intertwining with the first. With each color I went from one side to the other, rotated 90 degrees, sewed up the side a bit, then rotated 90 degrees again and stitched across the quilt the other direction. (Does that make sense?)
A pieced binding would be fun, but I’m not sure I have enough fabric to do it. I started with just a fat 8th pack, so there’s not a lot of fabric left. 🙂
Lovely! I’ve always wanted to do a landscape quilt but most of the ones i’ve seen are WAY too complicated and time consuming for me. this is gorgeous but looks manageable 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!
This is TOTALLY manageable. Of course part of that is because it’s quite small. But the entire quilt top took maybe an hour? It comes together super fast. 🙂 Thanks so much for the kind words!
Wow! I am in awe of your pieced curves! How in the world did you do them so neatly!?
Thank you!! I think part of it is practice, but even more of it is just being relaxed while you do them. I don’t use pins at all. I made a mod pop quilt last year which is a lot of curved piecing, and the person putting on the QAL posted a video of how to do pinless curved piecing which made a huge difference. Let me find the link real quick.
http://shecanquilt.blogspot.com/2011/12/sewing-curves-is-not-hard-seriously.html
These curves are more shallow so they’re even a bit easier than the drunkard’s path style. 🙂
I love this-it’s so soothing looking.
Thank you so much! I love the rolling hills in the Bay Area of California, for a similar reason. So it means a lot that you picked up on that!
This looks so great Anne. I need to play around with curved piecing. Good luck with binding – I wonder whether this is something that would work well with an invisible facing so that you don’t get a frame around it?
It seems like I need to go look into invisible binding/facing because that seems to be a common suggestion! 🙂 I’ve never done it before, but I’m willing to give it a try, and think this is a good time to try it. 🙂
Definitely play around with curved piecing! It’s so much easier than it looks, and gives you fast, pretty results. 🙂
Stunning!
Thank you! I just finished the binding this morning, so I will be posting the final reveal today. 🙂
Love the soft waves. How big is it, and how are you planning to use it? I don’t know much about no-binding quilts, but I feel like I’d be nervous to try it on anything bigger than a smallish throw size. I’d slap Kona pepper on the edge and be done, but now I’m very curious to see you use a new technique. report back please!
Thank you so much! It’s quite small, about 2′ x 3′ or so, and it’s just a wall hanging. I ended up going with the invisible/knife’s edge/facing binding. I’m not sure how I feel about how it looks, but I’m glad to have another tool in my arsenal. 🙂