Hi! Thank you to my sweet friends who commented on my previous post - it was quite nerve racking for me to put a picture of myself on here - as you could say, I'm a little camera shy!! :) There will be another one very soon again, because I've just finished my Staple Dress last night! But enough about that, today I wanted to show you a little project I've had in my head for quite a while...
I'm calling it an album quilt, but it's not really that - I guess it's more of a sampler? I got my inspiration to make this from a quilt I pinned on Pinterest a while back. I love finding quilt inspiration from Pinterest ;) when I followed the source of the image for an interiors site, they called it an antique album quilt - so that's what I'm naming it! :) I loved the antique quilt hanging over the fireplace, I thought it looked so beautiful and striking. I have a square alcove in the centre of my living room and it's the first thing you see when you come into the room, at the moment there is only a small clock that sits in it, so I thought this quilt would make a fabulous statement! I chose a range of deep reds, muted greens, browns and beige to make up each of the blocks and I really love how they all blend together. A step away from my usual bright and pastel colour choices, but I'm completely in love with how it's turning out!!
It's been so much fun to make, although the piecing isn't by any means perfect, for me - it's good! I'm itching to get it finished, but I'm at a bit of a cross-roads...
I don't know whether to machine or hand quilt it? As you may know already, I'm going to Fat Quarterly retreat this weekend, and one of the classes I'm doing is hand quilting - so I'm leaning towards taking this with me to hand quilt at the class. Or the other class I'm doing is free motion quilting; although I won't be taking this to practise on! I don't know whether I should wait and then try some free motion on this at a later date? I'm thinking this is quite small, measuring 32.5" square so it would be a nice size to hand quilt.
