cyrus's quilt!

the quilt has an undersea theme with a big octopus and lots of fishes. it was my first attempt at freestyle quilting with my sewing machine. cyrus seemed to like it!

seseli gummiferum

i recently finished a quilt for a friend's baby based on Karl Blossfeldt's "Natural Art Forms". it was a relatively quick project, only about 6 or 8 days total, since there was no applique. i think it turned out really nice, though.
(seseli gummiferum is the scientific name for moon carrot, whatever that is... anyway, it's the darling plant that the quilt is based on).

catherine and tim's wedding quilt

when i went to montana last weekend, i was finally able to document catherine and tim's wedding quilt... one of my first quilts when i started it up again.

pond quilt is finished

cool swedish fabric

check out mairo for cool fabrics from sweden. they're not that easy to find for sale in the u.s., but they do have them here.

tube dress

i found this adorable fabric with a pattern that ran from selvedge to selvedge. i wanted to create a dress made from a tube of this fabric and shaped by darts and pleats only. i began it pre-pek, but finally finished it recently. i like it.

this is the dress in progress:
the finished dress:



nice spider.

isabel's quilt is finally finished!

its finished and its so cute! i can't wait for her to crawl around on it. now i just have to get it in the mail to her...

the front.

the back.

birthday treats

in addition to fabulous cooking implements (not pictured, although the fruit of my future labors in the kitchen may well show up here), i got these treats for my birthday a couple of weeks ago:



Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture. hmmm. nice idea.

lots and lots of cool fabric from purl patchwork. you never know when you might need to quilt all of the sudden. it's best to be prepared.

perfect. from luke.

future weasel quilt

i'm thinking of these three fabrics for the quilt for anni and ben's baby weasel, due to arrive in december:
more to follow about the quilt later. probably much later.

Isabel's quilt update!

so here it is so far. i decided not to go with the diagonal stripes because the colors were getting a little muddled. i'm also going to add a few appliqued shapes, like hearts, rubber duckies, plus signs, that will be in a contrasting color and fit completely within one 4"x4" square. on the back, i'll but some multi-colored prints that didn't fit on the front and some more subtle neutral tones.

pond quilt

i'm working on a baby quilt for catherine and tim's baby. it will have a pond theme. here's the quilt so far (well, as of this morning, i made some progress on it today). pek loves it.

this is the sketch i made of the basic design. it will be populated with all sorts of creatures, as well, like frogs, fish, dragon flies, etc.

i made a little test piece to see how the leaves of grass look after being washed - i'm not hand applique-ing the whole thing. the leaves are sewn on by machine with the raw edges exposed. i was pretty pleased with the result. i didn't like the patchwork flowers with different colored backgrounds, though - too much going on. in the final quilt the background around the flowers is solid green.

the flowers are made from 1" squares and triangles. i like the combination of patchwork and applique.

fabrics

i really like these big, bold patterns. i've been collecting them for the last year or so. some of them are amy butler prints. i got them from reprodepot and purl patchwork in soho.

here's pek's dog bed that i made with the fabulous green and grey print and an egg crate foam mattress:

pek

here's our little pek. he's 6 1/2 months old, a sweet little border terrier.

and even puppies involve stitchery (the beloved duck):