Beautiful Miss

My Beautiful Miss

 

 I think it came out quite well after all. I`m very happy about it.

My learning curve from the day I started this one till today is

insane..... ha ha ha....

Honestly, I`ve made a few ooppss and aarrhhsss...

Hanne-Kristine

Beutiful Miss is finished

Yes! It`s finished. Finally.....  

  And a large thanks to Sølvi that suggested to use the rust fabric for binding. I`m very satisfied with the result. Tomorrow I`ll wash away the blue quiltinglines. I`m a bit worried though that the rust fabric in the middle will bleed, when I gave the binding a wash it did. 

Hanne-Kristine 

Back on track....

I`m really getting somewhere.....

I`ve been a busy girl all day and this evening..... Really...

And now I can enjoy sewing on the binding on the back.....

 

 I finished handquilting a few days ago. 

I think I have a got new favorite quilting pattern, this looks really good.

 

I had doubts about this lace, but decided to sew it on.

328 cm of binding....

Down in my dark sewingroom, I had a meeting with ms Paff.....

It was a good one.... jepp!

Ready to sew the rest of the binding on by hand. 

The Norwegian men are on the gold race in the Olympics..... 

Go Emil and the rest...... enjoy

Hanne-Kristine

Comming along nicely

I`m still handquilting.... Not much left now, my notebook is filled with yellow post-it-notes for what I`m up to when I`m done..... but first finish quilting, then sew on the binding. Handstitching in the back will be in front of  tv-work.......

Hanne-Kristine

New focus this week

Now with JI is done I have found another quilt I`m almost done with. It needs some hand quilting at the top and bottom, then the binding. I have been looking for the binding fabric, but can`t find it. I guess I need to do some decluttering in my sewing room!

In Norwegian it`s name is Festfin Frøken, in English it will sound something like: Dressed to party Miss! I would call it Beautiful Miss. It is designed by Rie Norum.  I really LOVE this pattern, and the book. The authors is Rie Norum and Hilde Krog, the book is called Quiltegleder (Joy of quilting).

Well I said that I love this one, but I also dislike it! but then again I love it...... You see, I have used two of my favorite fabrics, a tender Japanese blue and a rusty orange. But if I could do it again I would change several of the fabric choices I made.....  I also have the original lace, but I`m saving it for a second attempt! So I`m using a smaller one instead, I think my table runner needs it! I stopt quilting when I finally discovered that my rust fabric kind of took over the whole show..... and nobody told me!!!! It would be nice with a hint........ :o)

But I AM going to finish it because I love it.......

I learned a new technique, sewing the circle frames, I did it by hand. Later I took a class with Rie and learned to do it by machine as well. You can see there is a lot of hand quilting done....

Later I was told that the pattern in the back of the book was only about 90% large... not 100%..
But I still managed to quilt in the circles... I made the plastic stencil for the cable myself, cutting and all!

The thin lace I have chosen...

Makeing the quiltinglines...

Ready to quilt....

Hanne-Kristine