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Carnival in Cairo Quilt

December 2, 2019December 2, 20193 Comments

Where this project started... One evening last winter my partner sent me a link to this webpage with a collection of intriguing pentagonal tilings and a wonderful, inspirational story behind their discovery. The story is that of a woman, Marjorie Rice, who, despite having had just a basic high school math education, got positively obsessed … Continue reading Carnival in Cairo Quilt

Ventures into quilt (block) design

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019Leave a comment

What made me fall in love with modern quilting is the potential to play with graphic design and fabrics at the same time. In this post I will explain the design process that went into my first original block design, the "Organic Diamond" block, which was recently published as "block study" in Modern Monthly by … Continue reading Ventures into quilt (block) design

Overcoming quilting anxiety with a test run

March 31, 2019April 3, 20192 Comments

After finishing my "digging deeper" quilt top, I felt both excited and nervous about quilting it. I was excited, because I wanted to explore and learn techniques that can heighten and add depth to a quilt design. But I also felt nervous, because I still have very little experience and consequently little intuition for what … Continue reading Overcoming quilting anxiety with a test run

“Digging deeper” quilt top design

March 24, 20191 Comment

My projects typically start with a fabric that simply inspires me. When I browse fabric stores, there are typically fabrics call out to me, but I don't always know immediately what they want to be transformed into. Often it's not a single fabric that attracts me, but combinations and the challenge is to figure out … Continue reading “Digging deeper” quilt top design

Bringing order into a scrappy quilt?

March 3, 2019March 3, 20192 Comments

The project I'm going to talk about here started several years ago, on one of many afternoons that I spent sewing at my grandmother's house. My grandmother has sewn garments for decades and has accumulated a huge bag full of scraps. Often I would sit on the floor in her sewing room, empty the bag … Continue reading Bringing order into a scrappy quilt?

Quilted coasters from scrap fabric

January 29, 2018Leave a comment

I mentioned in a previous post that I don't like throwing away potentially useful things and hence have accumulated a large collection of scrap fabric. A fun way to use up scraps, is to piece them together to form a patchwork fabric. I enjoy this a lot, because you get to essentially make your own fabric … Continue reading Quilted coasters from scrap fabric

My first (full size) quilt — part 2

January 8, 2018January 8, 20182 Comments

This is the second post in a series about my first quilt project. In a previous post I described how I assembled four patchwork panels. Here I will describe the process of merging them into a single "sheet", which will later form the front side of a quilt, and how this sheet is then fused to the warm … Continue reading My first (full size) quilt — part 2

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