More Dresden pictures

Hello again,

As promised I'm back with more pictures that I took outside this time after washing the quilt. Unfortunately I couldn't take a vertical picture because of the lack of hanging up opportunities. 

We met Birthday Girl and her Mom at the park where we gave it to them, Mom was crying :)) She liked it very much. It makes me totally happy to know that it will be appreciated. She even said that it's big enough for her :)

There were a few things I wanted to answer before I  post the pictures. Someone was asking which fabric line I was using. I picked the fabrics out of my stash, no particular fabric line, I don't think even 2 of them were from the same manufacturer. There was another question about the quilting. I quilt my quilts on my Singer 201-2 sewing machine (picture is here in my first blogpost). I have not made any quilts with marking. Yet. That's coming up in the future I'm sure :) I do not follow any patterns, just totally free motion quilting.

With no further ado here are the additional pictures, enjoy!

In case you're visiting for the first time, you can see the before pictures by clicking on this link
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Dresden quilt FINISHED!!

Hi Everybody,

I'm glad You're here! I'm sooooo excited to share some pictures about the quilt I finally finished :)) I still have to wash it so stay tuned because  more pictures are coming up in a future post, but I'm just too excited not to share these. I've been wanting to take pictures for 2 days, but it was dark when I finally put the last stitches in, and yesterday I just wasn't home during the day.

The quilting process was kind of slow, it took me 2 days to finish because we needed to run errands in the meantime. I was really happy I have a seam ripper again since it involved a lot of un-stitching. I was using Sulky rayon 40wt variegated thread on the top and solid pink on the bottom, same kind. Somehow when I went over a lot of seams in a short period of time, the thread shredded and I had to re-start again. That involved a lot of starts and stops. I tried to make a flower out of the 3-D pinwheels in the corners, but ended up picking out the stitches because of too many layers, and also the floppy pinwheel blades kept getting caught in the free motion foot. Other than those troubles the quilting went smooth. I expected to finish it a lot faster, but it's all right, I'm done! And that's what counts! I ended up binding it by hand because I just didn't feel like playing with my  machine about picking out what kind of decorative stitch to use to secure the binding.

First, here's the back (which in REAL life looks like it's trapunto). I pieced the leftover "blades" and the test 3D pinwheel block. For the record, the top and bottom fabric are the same. Also the quilt looks kind of wobbly since 2 hangers weren't enough, but 3 were one too many :)

Here are some close-ups of the quilting of the block itself and the border.

The front:

Close-up:

Close-up of the borders:

Close-up of the blocks:

And the 4 corners with the 3-D pinwheels:

Hope you enjoyed the show and I'll be back hopefully tomorrow night with more pictures of the washed quilt. I'm also planning to give it to the Birthday Girl and hope to snap a picture of her too!
UPDATE: You can see  the after-the-wash pictures by clicking here.
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Thanks so much for visiting and come again soon! :)

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Dresden quilt BASTED!!!, Wonky log cabin block

Hello there dear readers,

I'm glad you all are here! :) How is everybody doing? Have you thought of that  the Summer is almost over? I can't believe it... time goes by so quick!

I bit the bullet today and basted the Dresden plate quilt. Why am I dreading the basting part? Because I don't have a large enough table? Or am I just procrastinating? Does it happen to you? I ended up taping the backing on our area rug and baste the quilt on the floor. It was my first time using this method since I think this is the largest quilt up to date. Hope it's basted well enough, we'll see in the quilting process. We had some thunderstorms moving through while I was working,  but didn't see and hear too much of it because I was listening to the Fellowship of the Ring audiobook. It didn't take as long as I thought it would, I used up almost all of my basting pins. Note to self... need to buy more to baste the log cabin quilt!

I took a  picture of it after I was done, pardon the light conditions because of the above mentioned thunderstorms...

After I was finished I still wanted to keep listening to the book so I decided to get over myself and make the wonky log cabin block for Craftsy BOM May. I took out my box with the scraps from the previous blocks and worked from those. I even ran out of some of the fabrics which is good and bad at the same time :))

Presenting the Wonky log cabin block:

Off to go to bed now, I had a rough night last night with thunder and lightning so I'm hoping to get a good night's rest!

'Til we blog again! :)