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Spring Bouquet Quilt Top Complete
Posted by Claire on Apr 07 2013
It’s done. After seven months, almost to the day, I’ve finished “Spring Bouquet”. You can see my progress over that time in my updates: #1, #2 and #3 It seems appropriate somehow that I reached the milestone in spring. It’s still chilly and not much has started sprouting in our neck of the woods but […]
Spring Bouquet Update #3
Posted by Claire on Mar 19 2013
I’m making a lot of progress on Spring Bouquet. On my last update, I was just starting the borders. I’m happy to report that not only have I finished cutting and prepping all four of the borders, I’ve actually got two of them machine appliqued in place! Here’s what one of the borders looks like: […]
Spring Bouquet Update #2
Posted by Claire on Feb 18 2013
Ta-da! I’ve reached a big milestone with my LBQ applique project. I’ve finished cutting and prepping all nine of the centre blocks. Each block has between 45 and 75 individual pieces, so I’m approximately 60% of the way through the prep. Here are some close-ups, in no particular order. I think they look fantastic, don’t […]
Spring Bouquet Update #1
Posted by Claire on Oct 10 2012
I’ve started climbing Mount Everest. A quilted, appliqued Mount Everest better known as Laundry Basket Quilt’s “Spring Bouquet”. I didn’t buy the pre-cut shapes or the QOM option. Firstly, I don’t like the idea of doing raw edge fusible applique on anything but a ‘daily use’ quilt. I think it looks messy and not […]
Summer Quilting Update
Posted by Claire on Jul 22 2012
Despite being swamped by home renos (and we’re at the messy, everything everywhere, why did we ever start this job in the first place stage right now, and a long, long way away from totally forgot how much work it really was stand and admire and pat yourself on the back stage) I managed to […]