'Pop Up' Quilt - An Entry for Blogger's Quilt Festival :: Spring 2011

I made this quilt almost 1,5 years ago. It made of hand dyed cotton fabric that I didn't like at first (but don't want to throw away), so I decided to cut it in small pieces, then bleached them in trying to make varieties scheme color of blues.`Such an experiment...but it turned out good. I had blue fabrics in many hues.

Most people always use cotton batting for their quilt. Since it's very difficult to find cotton batting in my country so I tried to use whatever available, in this case polyester batting. I also use my favorite cream unbleached cotton (similar with muslin).

It's such a journey to me for exploring quilting with polyester batting including a willingness to think out of the box.

I chose natural straight lines (organic lines) to quilt this piece.

The orange yellow binding is an accent color for the quilt.

It is pleasing to see how the scattered squares could add a unique design element -looks 'pop out'- squares and making you just want to touch it!

That's why I called this wall hanging 'Pop Up' :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Now, I'm off to look at all these other amazing quilts on the Blogger's Festival :: Spring 2011 here.

I'm far behind!

Errghh...I almost do nothing lately in my creative world of sewing!
Kids' sickness, starting first weeks of school, doing some errands..
Finally when I've got the time yesterday, I made a block for a swap. I think I'm far behind than my friends...The theme is Summer. What do you think, is it summery enough? My idea come from the color of beach and ocean. Did some wavy lines there.

Do you see the small turtle ? I bought it in a batik shop. I love it so much!
I should browse to find a pattern of turtle this week and make another version.

Another project I did, an experiment! Bleaching one of fabric I hate. I don't know what I was thinking when buy it. The more I look at it the more I don't like the color. So I decided to cut it in pieces and bleach. See...now they become in some more light colors tone.

Ok friends, see you in my next post! I hope this week is much better :)