by Emmely | Jan 30, 2023 | DutchMQG, Finished project, Quilting
Last year I participated in the first Dutch MQG round robin. The theme was connection and I almost immediately thought of roads. Roads connect A and B, but the journey to reach your destination also matters. So, I thought it would be fun to make a landscape quilt that...
by Emmely | Nov 7, 2021 | Finished project, Gifts, Paper piecing, Sewing
A couple of weeks ago I had some uninterrupted time to myself because my children were staying with my parents for a couple of nights. I used some of that time to finally turn a quilt top into a quilt! The design was inspired by the “fractured” quilt from “Quilting...
by Emmely | May 30, 2021 | Finished project, Quilting, Sewing
Last year I made a quilt for my nephew and of course his little sister should get one too! I used the stitch and flip triangle technique from the book “Quilting modern” by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pederson. Each square got two triangles on opposite corners. I started...
by Emmely | Aug 25, 2020 | Finished project, Gifts, Quilting, Sewing
This quilt started as a “what if” experiment. I have a stack of colourful 10’’ squares and thought to myself “what if I layer them on top of each other, slice them into two triangles, put one triangle to the side and then repeat this procedure twice with the other...
by Emmely | Jun 25, 2020 | English paper piecing, Finished project, Gifts, Quilting, Sewing
This year the dutchMQG has set a theme for each quarter and there is usually also an activity organized around this theme. With this quarter’s theme “colour” we had the option to participate in a swap to make a miniquilt for another member. We had to make...
