New quilt and a giveaway!
A very dear friend of mine, whom I share the same interests with creatively, invited me over to her house for sewing today. She and I get together once in a while and we knit together, go fabric shopping together etc. Last year, I showed her my sewing nook in the basement with all the ongoing projects and what I was planning to do ' if and when ' I get time to sew, and she came up with this idea of getting together just to sew. I quickly embraced the idea because I was so much in need of a push to get back into sewing again, after such a long dry period. After 3+ hours on the machine while she was helping with pressing the seams in her lovely sewing room, I sewed at least 60% of the quilt top .
Here is the quilt top so far, measuring about 54 inches by 45 inches. The African fabrics used were precut sometime last summer, when I thought I could tackle this project but never did. That was a big time saver because I only had to focus on the sewing and am quite amazed how much was accomplished in a short time.
This will be a lap quilt for our love seat, where we like cuddle up when we watch movies or football. Since my knitted cabled blanket is still in the works and possibly has a few more months to go before I can finish it, I thought a sewn blanket will be faster, easy and usable before the winter is over.
The quilt is just made up of different sizes of squares and rectangles and as you can see, there is no recipe or pattern in placement of fabric. Just random and/or whatever is visually appealing to me. It was great having a second pair of eyes to review that outcome and so far, am satisfied.
I used my patchwork bag to carry the precut fabric sorted out by size today. I do use that bag a lot and of course, am itching to make more.
I guess I cannot yet claim I have achieved my sewing goal for the year as it is rather an ongoing process, but at least this project assures me that am off to a great start. In the same spirit of acting on new year's goals, whatever your's maybe, I would love to motivate someone to get into action. Here is the deal: If you can guess one day, between today and last day of February, that you believe this quilt will be completed, leave a comment on this post and if you guess right (or closest to the actual date), I will send you small bundle of fabric scraps from this quilt. You can leave a comment for the draw until Friday Monday, January 14th! Have fun!
ooh - I wish I had seen this in time! I love those fabrics - and the 14th was my bday. :> Oh well, it is just stunning. Thank you for the inspiration.
Posted by: Elizabeth | January 23, 2008 at 02:00 PM
I love the color of your quilt and I think it is ready on the 19th of February.
I hope it is the right day, because the fabrics were beautiful for my quilt 'Children of the World'
Also I want to finish one quarter of my quilt.
Greetings
Dorothea
Posted by: Dorothea | January 14, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Lovely ! and I can recognise on it some of my favourite patterns.
I'm glad you're back on quilting, you're really gifted for it !
Posted by: Vera | January 14, 2008 at 06:47 AM
what anice colors!!!!
beautiful!
Posted by: maarja | January 13, 2008 at 01:49 AM
That quilt is just gorgeous! Love the way you put the pieces together.
I say Feb 10th :)
Vanessa, Upstate NY
Posted by: Vanessa | January 12, 2008 at 08:16 PM
WOW! WOW! WOW! I had to come out of delurking to say that is such a gorgeous looking quilt. How about 2/12.
Posted by: Jeanine | January 12, 2008 at 06:20 PM
It's gorgeous!
I'll guess February 2nd.
Posted by: Nicole | January 12, 2008 at 03:06 PM
my guess if feb 7th. i love the fabric!
my daughter is going to rwanda this year. i am looking for fabrics to make a weekender tote for her. if you can recommend a fabric source, i would love it!
Posted by: heatherly | January 12, 2008 at 02:30 PM
The fabrics are stunning! I will enjoy watching you progress on this one, L!
Posted by: Lolly | January 11, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Love the fabric? Could i ask where you got it all from? I am going to guess at January 27th. Take care and happy sewing
Posted by: Lynne Nelson-Berg | January 10, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Love your blog...you are now in my links.
Kisses and hi's from Chile
Dp
Posted by: danae | January 10, 2008 at 09:27 AM
stunning quilt! I love the autumn colors!
Posted by: hpny knits | January 09, 2008 at 01:10 AM
That is looking stunning, and all the nicer to snuggle up to watch something with a blanket made with love! Great progress so far! I'll go with January 24th =)
Posted by: Anne | January 08, 2008 at 07:17 PM
how awesome to have a friend near to sew with! this is just spectacular lucy. hmmm.
see, i don't even know what goes into a "real" quilt and the time required. but i know your motivation. by the end of the month.
Posted by: leslie | January 08, 2008 at 07:06 AM
I guess January 14th! It looks beautiful.
Posted by: Lin | January 08, 2008 at 02:37 AM
Hi Lucy, I think you'll finish it next Tuesday, January 16th. It is beautiful!!
Posted by: Ada | January 07, 2008 at 10:53 PM
First - I LOVE the quilt and the theme -- it looks wonderful so far.
I'm guessing February 14th -- ON Valentine's Day!
Posted by: Janet | January 07, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Daaaang good guess Marsha!! Shoot....since you are steaming thru it I will guesstimate January 31st :o)
What a fun contest!
Posted by: Stacey_CrimsonPurl | January 07, 2008 at 10:18 PM
I love those colors! It's a beautiful quilt! You mentioned wanting to use it on the love seat while cuddling, so I'm guessing you'll finish it on 13 February--just in time for Valentine's Day. :)
Posted by: Marsha | January 07, 2008 at 09:15 PM