by Emmely | May 12, 2020 | Quilting, Sewing, Work in progress
A completed quilt top! Super happy with how it turned out! I think I managed to keep the distribution of the trees pretty random. How did I do this? I tried to place larger and smaller trees next to eachother so that their differences in height and width create...
by Emmely | Apr 24, 2020 | Quilting, Sewing, Work in progress
So, we have made more trees. The novelty of picking fabrics has worn off a bit so I’ve also added some of my own combinations. To a couple of pieces I’ve added a bit of white and silver fabric so they became large enough to turn them into rectangles. When...
by Emmely | Apr 17, 2020 | Quilting, Sewing, Work in progress
During the past two days my daughter and I have added more trees to our forrest and I think we’re getting close to the number that is needed. Some fabric combinations definitely work better than others, but overall I still really like where this is going. I even...
by Emmely | Apr 15, 2020 | Quilting, Sewing, Work in progress
With my kids at home all the time I am finding it difficult to find time for creativity. Well, apart from drawing and glueing with my daughter that is, but somehow that’s just not the same as using thread to put colourful pieces of fabric together. Today,...
by Emmely | Jan 21, 2020 | Quilting, Sewing, Work in progress
Finally making progress on this quilt top. It’s grown a bit since I showed it last and I added some additional fabrics. I should be able to finish piecing it this week. As I started assembling I thought it was interesting to visualize how a quilt shrinks with...