Finally, Hubertine
and I can reveal the quilts we made for our first Feathergirls project!
And that it
took a while was ‘my bad’ as they say, since I really wanted to handquilt my
quilt, Hubertine finished her quilt a while ago.
Click here to look at Hubertine’s finished quilt.
Click here to look at Hubertine’s finished quilt.
And here is
mine, tadaaah!
Quilt stats:
Size: 79.5”
(202 cm) x 62” (157 cm)
Block: Jacob’s
Ladder, 9”
Quilting: by
hand with YLI quilting thread in Ecru
Fabric: 100%
cotton
Batting:
100% cotton
Of course my
quilt has a name and a label:
I named my
quilt after Lucy (click), for the reasons explained on the label. Ever since I
found out about quilting blogs and found Lucy’s first blog (click) I loved what
I saw there (same as on her second blog (click) ). Her work is beautiful, she
takes her inspiration from old quilts, the kind of quilts that would actually
be used and I love her fabric choices. What I also admire is that she works so
independent of trends and fashions in the quilt world. Her quilt blogs and also
her 365 days blogs here (click) and here (click) are a great source of inspiration
for me.
So when I
saw she gave a workshop at the Sampler in Haarlem a few years ago I jumped at
the chance. It was a workshop for beginners on the sewing machine and – having
made everything by hand up until then – I really wanted to learn making quilts
on the sewing machine, that would be so much faster. I had done a workshop like
that before but I after that first one I still did not like working on a
machine. So I decided to give it another try.
During
Lucy’s workshop we made a Jacob’s Ladder block and even though I made a number
of mistakes that day, somehow her workshop gave me the confidence to do
patchwork on a sewing machine. After her workshop I made Eline’s Stars (machine
patched and partly machine quilted) and found I really enjoyed working on a
machine.
So when
Hubertine and I decided to make our first quilts on our newly acquired
Featherweight machines as the Feathergirls (click) it was only fitting I should
use the Jacob’s Ladder block. I did make
it a different size than the block we made during Lucy’s workshop, hers was in
cm’s , mine is 9”.
Since this
is a combined project, Hubertine and I wanted to photograph our quilts together
and last week it was perfect weather to do so:
Fun to see
the quilts like this!
We really
enjoyed doing this together and as you may know we have each already started
our second Feathergirls quilt, here (click)
and here (click).
So onwards
and forwards with our second Feathergirls quilts!
Phyllis