Quilt

Years ago I started a mile-a-minute quilt, but was not too keen on the results. I decided to do something with it after all, if only for practice, so last week I cut blocks from the pieced fabric pieces. You are supposed to cut them on an angle, but I cut the smaller ones straight to get as many blocks as I could.

The quilting of the blocks is done at the embroidery machine, the strips and border at the sewing machine. I used an orangy-brown, same as the little flowers in the border, for the embroidery of the blocks to add some interest to the plain sections. That softened the sharp contrast a bit as well.

The design is just as pieced as the blocks are: the feathered wreath is done in 5D QuiltDesign, the stippling added automatically with the wizard in 6D Extra, the square outline that produces removed in Embird Studio where I also added the crossed lines in the centre of the wreath.

As I had 3 blocks left I incorporated those in the back.

All in all I am pleasantly surprised how rather ugly blocks could make up something as colourful and even rather pretty as this turned out to be. And I learned a lot in the process.