Wednesday, 8 January 2014

A Lovely Year of Finishes ... January

Last year I followed A Lovely Year of Finishes with the lovely Shanna and Melissa. It was a great incentive for me to finish some projects and I managed 9 finishes (admittedly only one of them was a quilt).  

So I have decided to follow along again this year but I am resolved not to get stressed if I don't finish my aims!


A Lovely Year of Finishes 
 
So my aim for January is to finish this baby quilt 
 
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I am currently in the process of hand sewing the hexies onto the background and then need to quilt it.

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I haven't decided yet whether I will hand quilt in perle cotton or machine quilt (I can only straight line quilt at the moment on my machine). Or maybe a combination. Any suggestions will be gratefully received!
 
I am also linking this up with Hydeeann's "In Hand" EPP link party. A great place to see people's EPP progress and to share tips and advice on EPP.
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14 comments:

  1. Gina8 January 2014 at 11:28

    Such a sweet baby quilt! Fun design and nice color combination!!!

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  2. Fran8 January 2014 at 17:38

    What gorgeous colours!

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  3. Celtic Thistle9 January 2014 at 00:45

    Lovely quilt Deborah! If you have time then hand quilting would be lovely, but as it is for a baby quilt maybe not that practical given the amount of washing it will undoubtedly be subject too :) Echo quilting is my default!

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  4. Emma9 January 2014 at 09:08

    What a fun baby quilt. Good luck with finishing it.

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  5. pennydog9 January 2014 at 21:52

    Good luck with your finish, the colours are lovely!

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  6. Deborah9 January 2014 at 22:12

    Yay! You are blogging!! Love this quilt!

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  7. Samantha 11 January 2014 at 01:35

    Awesome quilt! Love the Hexies :)

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  8. hydeeann11 January 2014 at 04:39

    the handquilting would be lovely, but it always takes more time. hard choice! maybe a combo would be a good idea. you could handquilt around the hexies and do straight lines for the rest?

    love the colors and epp in the quilt. i'll be featuring it for In Hand this weekend, okay? =)

    the blog looks great! you've got quite a following already.

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  9. Megan11 January 2014 at 16:49

    I didn't realise you had started to blog. Hello! I shall be following along :-)

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  10. Karen @ Pieces of Contentment12 January 2014 at 15:56

    I like your combination of colours and quilting blocks/styles here. Are you able to stipple quilt? Stippling requires only straight stitch with feed dogs down while using a darning foot. Another thought is to straight line quilt the squared border strips (in the ditch of beside seams) then use a few diagonal lines of straight stitching running between the hexie diamonds on the solid grey with maybe one row of echo hand quilting around each hexie diamond.
    It will be interesting to see how you choose to quilt in the end.

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  11. Janet13 January 2014 at 10:57

    Very cute! Hand quilting around the hexies and straight line on the rest of it is my suggestion.

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  12. Biscuit13 January 2014 at 18:18

    Love the hexies! The fabrics you are using are stunning! A combination of both quilting styles sounds like the way to go :)

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  13. Janine @ Rainbow Hare14 January 2014 at 06:49

    Those colours are beautiful against the grey. Good luck with finishing this :)

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  14. Michelle Bartholomew18 January 2014 at 02:53

    What a fun design! I would straight quilt some of it for durability, but hand stitching on or around the hexies would be super cute!!

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