Yes, yes I have been sewing,
but first let me tell you about where Glenys & I went this weekend
... to Banus cooking class.
... and sewing?
Well, I seem to be kinda stuck on dealing to my scraps lately!
This scrappy Tumbler quilt was started many years ago, in my pre-blogging days. And I can't even remember the initial inspiration for it, apart from wanting to try and use a few 'brown' fabrics! However, the recent focus on tumbler quilts as a Leaders & Enders project certainly re-sparked my interest in this long neglected WiP!I started to hand quilt it, but months would go by, and I hadn't done a stitch! So this weekend I made the 'big decision' and switched over to lots of large stitch machine quilting.
I love this scrappy mix of fabrics, and I'm sure some of you will recognise many little bits here.
The backing was a scrappy stash-busting mixture too!
The batting is all wool, it will be a really snuggily buggily warm quilt.
The backing was a scrappy stash-busting mixture too!
The batting is all wool, it will be a really snuggily buggily warm quilt.
And I even had the binding all ready, so it was simply a matter of just getting on with it!
Linking up with 'oh scrap' here
- follow the link to see lots of quilty inspiration!
10 comments:
You do have some lovely scrappy tumblers here and use there does seem to be quite a lot of bloggers working with tumblers at the moment. Fabrics - left hand side the rust potentilla on black, love it I still have around one yard left - saving for a rainy day.
How satisfying to finish a WIP and such a lovely one too. Your assortment of scraps are gorgeous.
Every time I see a tumbler quilt like yours, I push tumblers up a few notches on my quilt to-do queue. If I start cutting some tomorrow, it's going to be totally your fault...
So many great fabrics in this quilt. Some I used long ago and wish I still had. Good job and getting this one on the fast track to snuggling!
I love this scrappy tumbler goodness.
That's so much fun! Congrats for getting it out and moving it along. :)
The food looks tasty! Love the look of your tumbler quilt :)
Thank you! I still find something really captivating about a scrappy quilt! And some of these fabrics are part of my quilting history... there's an old Laura Ashley in there, a couple of bright Japanese fabrics, the Kaffes of course, and a few timeless spots...lots to look at!
Your cooking class looked good - bet it was a lot of fun.
The quilting on your tumblers looks terrific! Thanks for sharing the close-ups of the fabrics and binding.
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