Wonderful Light - Quilt Guilt competition

The theme for this year's competition of our guilt was "Wonderful light".
For the first time, I decided to participate. "In real life" I am a scientist, and I decided to bring this part into the quilt. So what is light? Light is an electromagnetic wave of a variety of wavelengths. It is seen as white. If passed through a prism, the wavelengths split and a rainbow of colours can be seen. And why is this a wonderful light? Because knowing the laws behind natures phenomena does not take away from their beauty. Light is beautiful and wonderful.
So this was basically the sentiment I wanted to capture in my quilt.

As the background I chose a variety of dark grey fabrics, sewn into small log cabin blocks. The light illuminates the darkness, seen by the lighter background, as well composed of light grey log cabins.

The initial light beam is represented by silver spheres of jersey fabric. (What exactly made my use sphere shaped? That took ages!) The light beam is passed through a "prism" of two and three layers of organza. The refracted light is indicated by rainbow coloured fabric triangles, appliquéd to the background.

Handquilted with little stars all over.

So here it is:

And now my slip-up. I interchanged the required width and length. It should be "portrait" but it is "landscape". -100 points for not reading the instructions...
So it was disqualified.

Oh well, on to a new try next year.

Weeping Angel Pillow

Here is a little farewell present for the colleague, who introduced me to the terrible wonderful madness of Dr Who. A Weeping Angel pillow. What irony... who would close their eyes and sleep on it?!
It was a free paper piecing pattern from this website. Love all her patterns, and it surely wasn't my last.

The pattern came together nicely, except this one slip of the left hand. But beware, it contained really lots of small pieces!

Another baby quilt, from orphaned blocks

Oh no, I gave this quilt away before taking a picture when ready.
So, this is when pinned and about to quilt. I custom quilted it, my first attempt, but well, you can't see it. According to the pictures date, this was in summer 2013.

Anyway, here is a picture. I enjoyed putting those orphaned blocks to use.

Jelly roll race, monochromatic

Here is a quilt I made a couple of years ago for my daughter. It is basically a Jellyroll-race with inserted squares of rainbow coloured solids. For this quilt I collected green fabrics for quite a while and cut 2.5 inch strips from myself. I added the solid colour squares and sewed it together jelly roll race-style.
To fit the desried size and to brighten things up, I added a square-in square border.

This was the my second attempt at freemotion quilting, and the pattern is a loop-di-loop with hearts every third "loop".
The back is a yellow "moomin" fabric from the thrift store.

This bedspread has now been updated my a pinky-pink princess quilt.

Turquoise Babyblanket

I am slowly updating this blog with my creations of the last two years.
Here is a turqouise and grey babyblanket for a collegue. I had asked for her colour choices and decided to do a scrappy wild geese quilt. To lighten things up, I added the occasional yellow print.

I like quilt's where the eye cannot quite catch the overall appearance and has to focus on small parts. It was well received by my colleague, so I think she liked it, too.

 A closer look on the geese blocks and the quilting.

The quilting was very difficult, because the batting was very thick. The baby will lay and crawl on it on the ground, so I wanted to provide a thick isolation. Never again! The back fabric is an IKEA fleece blanket bought on sale. The quilting pattern is a large meander with flowers in between.

Ready for Mystery

Though the timing hits the final rush before christmas, I can't wait to start Bonnie Hunter's
Mystery Quilt 2015.

The fabric is picked from stash, bought, and ordered (still waiting for the package) and I am ready to go. My latest quilts were on the easy side piecing- and quiltingwise, so I am hoping to be pushed out of my comfort zone.

Here is my maschine set up and ready to go. Still 1.5 h until Quilt Cam, where I will be playing with my box of half square triangles.

Allietare week 1, half square triangles

It is half square triangle time. Please visit Quiltville Allietare part 1 for the instructions by Bonnie Hunter and to join the fun.

While I have probably done a gazillion of half square triangles, it is my first time with a specialty ruler. It takes me some time to get used to, so I am sloooow. But this mystery is supposed to be a learning experience so I am pushing through. Please note at the cutting photo, that I am very serious with rotary cutter safety. The cutter blade is unprotected, because I literally was in the cutting process, cut, take picture, cut more.

Some test half squares. yes, they fit to the right measurements.

 More half square triangles. Seriously... LOTS of them. Quite a mess at the ironing board.

But they do make for a pretty garland.

I am about half way through with my units... But I love huge quilts, and small units, and repetitive sewing. It puts me right to a meditative mind set.... now off to sew some more. Looking forward to friday for part 2!