Quilt Festival - Spring 2009

Hi everyone, Park City Girl is hosting the first ever online Quilt Festival. Click here to see all the wonderful quilts in blogland. My contributions to the quilt festival is my "Tumbling Block" quilt. I made this quilt for my daughter. It is all hand pieced and hand quilted. It is the first quilt that I did inset seams. It was a very big accomplishment when I got it all done. It took me 5 months to do. I really love the way it looks. I hope you like it too. Happy Stitching!
Ariane :o)

I'm done my Tumbling Block Quilt

I'm finally done the Tumbling Block Quilt I've been making for my daughter. This quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted. I started working on this quilt in the first week of September 2008. So, it took me 5 months to finish it. I think that is pretty good. The piecing itself only took me six weeks. But I struggled a bit with staying on track with the hand quilting. I had many projects on the go. I'm just glad it didn't sit for a long time. I think it is a beautiful quilt. It is my favorite one to date. I just like using old patterns to make my quilts. This one really jumped out at me when I was going through a book I borrowed from the library called "Big book of best-loved quilt patterns" by Rhonda Richards. This is by far my favorite quilting book to date. I wish I had my own copy. I also got my Jacob's ladder pattern from that book. It has many patterns for antique quilts, and has many different styles of quilts. It also has great instructions and tips. It has patterns for 82 different quilts. I'm going to have to borrow it again to see what I could make next. Here's a picture of the back of the quilt. You can't see the quilting that well. But I think the back looks really good. The colour of the binding really goes well with it. I'm going to have to take pictures in the sunlight so that you can really see it well and how bright it looks. Well, I hope everyone had a great day.

Happy Stitching!

Ariane :o)

A little bit of hand quilting

Today I worked on the Tumbling block quilt I'm making for my daughter. I'm hand quilting it. I haven't worked on it regularly, because of trying to get my Christmas gifts done. But now that Christmas is over, I can work on it more often and hopefully get it done sooner than later. I've got quite a few projects on the go right now. Some days I'm all into working on one project, then the next day I want to do something else. I just need to make sure I don't have too many started. There is only so much free time to do these things. But I love it and I just can't resist starting something new or working on a project I really love. Well, here is a picture of the hand quilting I'm doing on my daughters quilt. I'm no expert. I'm just learning from all these wonderful blogs and websites with endless amounts of information. My stitches aren't too small, but I'm trying to keep them close to the same size. I think it's looking great.