Heart Lab: Carolina Patchworks
There's nothing I love more than curling up on my couch with my favorite blanket. A Carolina Patchworks quilt by Emily would be a perfect match to a nice cup of tea and one of my favorite magazines!
The making of the Modern Lotus Orbs Quilt...
Step 1: Fabric Shopping
Who doesn't like shopping? I can easily spend hours at my favorite shop.
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Sometimes I have a design idea when I buy the fabric and sometimes I just buy what I love knowing I'll find a pattern later. I design a lot of my quilts but I occasionally use a commercial pattern. 30 minutes
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Take lots of fabric and cut it into millions of little pieces so I can sew them all back together. 1-3 hours
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Chain stitching is your best friend. 5-20 hours (or more)
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Hundreds of safety pins go in at 4" increments to hold the quilt, batting and backing together. 1-3 hours
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Sew a meandering line over several thousand square inches of fabric. 2-12 hours
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Trim it, square the corners and put the finishing touch of binding around the edge. 1-3 hours
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The easiest part of the whole process. I wash my quilts after quilting to give them a vintage puckery look. 1.5 hours
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Natural light is a must for quilts. 15 minutes
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30 minutes
Thanks Emily!!
4 comments:
This quilt is absolutely beautiful and I can just picture all the awesome snuggling that could be done by a nice warm fire in the winter.....with this quilt!
xo
Melissa
oh, i love quilts and this one is a beauty. i can handle everything up to the quilting part though. that takes perseverance, but makes all the difference in the world. thank you for sharing her process.
This description of quilting cracked me up! So clever.
beautiful!
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