by Emmely | Apr 19, 2023 | Finished project, Quilting
After my daughter and I completed the tree quilt for her bedroom she wanted to continue sewing. Instead of trees we now made improv blocks to make a large scrappy improv quilt. She picked pieces of fabric from my scrap bin and told me how to piece them together. After...
by Emmely | Nov 16, 2022 | Finished project, Paper piecing, Pattern drafting
I finally turned one of my sample blocks for the cat in basket pattern into a cat mini quilt. My youngest daughter picked the 6-inch block which would be a very tiny quilt when used on its own. To make it a more useful size I added a border. The 2-inch facing strips...
by Emmely | Aug 24, 2021 | DutchMQG, Finished project, Quilting
In July I made a quilt to participate in the Modern Quilt Guild’s “Make a difference challenge”. The theme was trees and the proceeds of the challenge went to Trees for the Future, an organization that wants to end hunger and poverty by training farmers to regenerate...
by Emmely | Jan 27, 2021 | DutchMQG, Finished project, Gifts, Quilting, Sewing
In December I participated in a winter swap organized by the dutchMQG. We each had to prepare 12 gifts for another member and some of the gifts had to be handmade. They were opened in the 12 days preceding Christmas and it was a lot of fun to see what everyone...
by Emmely | Dec 24, 2020 | Finished project, Quilting, Sewing
Oh pandemic of 2020… I started this quilt together with my daughter during the first lockdown in the Netherlands which lasted from March to May. I did show some of the process before, including how it started and how I assembled all the trees into a quilt top....
