0 single girl {blogger's quilt festival}

Yay, Blogger's quilt festival hosted by a wonderfully talented Amy is here again.

Unlike previous years, this time I knew rightaway which quilt I wanted to submit. My Single Girl quilt is without any doubt my most favorite quilt I made up to date.

I so love how the low volume background is wonderfully setting off all the bright, happy colors of the rings. The fact that I used tons of my scraps which remind me of all the previous projects I worked on is definitely a bonus.

This was not an easy quilt to make. All those templates just about killed me, but the result! Oh, so well worth all that work.

I planned on hand quilting this beauty from the moment I started cutting first templates. I just knew big chunky stitches using embroidery thread were the way to go.

Finished size of this quilt is 60" x 60" and to read my original post on this quilt you can click here.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Hope you all have an amazingly creative weekend. Svetlana

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0 single girl {all finished}

My Single Girl is all finished and she is a beauty (in my humble "totally unbiased" opinion).

She is all I was hoping for and so much more. I absolutely love how scrappy and bright she is, and I simply can't get enough of all those low volume backgrounds (thanks for this genius idea Jolene).

As planned, I used this beautiful Sugar Hill flannel for the backing. It's pretty, and soft, and cozy - simply perfect. Now I want to use flannel backing for all my quilts.

From the moment I started making this quilt I knew I wanted to hand quilt it. And I did, yay! I used 2 strands of embroidery thread which worked really well and I ended up with these lovely chunky stitches.

I was a little stuck when it came to binding. I wanted something that would complement all the neutrals while at the same time not competing with the scrappy rings. So, I decided to go with this color weave in gray, I think it adds just the right finishing touch.

To sum it all up, this was not an easy quilt to make. There was a lot of template cutting, precise piecing, curve sewing, and of course hand quilting. But, I enjoyed making her more than I enjoyed working on any other quilt before. I think it's the combination of Denyse Schmidt, neutrals, bright scraps, and hand quilting that make me love this quilt so very much.

Finished size of this quilt is about 60" x 60" and I used Single Girl pattern by Denyse Schmidt.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this beauty with you. 

Wishing you all a very lovely day. Svetlana

Linking up to Fabric Tuesday over at Quilt Story.

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0 hand quilting

 Hello, happy Sunday!

I hope you all are having a lovely weekend. Mine is going pretty well, not much of my usual sewing happening since my Juki stopped working a few days ago and I had to take it to the "machine doctor" :( No fun at all!

I can't complain much, though. Not having the machine means that I have all this time to work on hand quilting my Single Girl .

It's a slow, but pretty relaxing process, so no complaints here. My least favorite part, I must say, is marking the quilting lines which I find extremely boring and tedious (I'm using a blue marker that disappears once it gets wet - it works well, I tried it already).

 Oh, I'm so loving these chunky stitches. 

I don't use any frames or hoops when quilting. I tried, but it did not work for me. I just find myself a nice comfy spot on the sofa, hold the quilt firmly with my left hand, and quilt.

 As you can see, I'm quite enjoying myself.

Wishing you all a wonderful rest of the weekend. Svetlana

Linking up to Chase's Weekending.

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0 playtime

 Hello, happy Sunday!

I hope your weekend is going well and you're getting some time to play as well as rest. I'm having a ridiculously wonderful time with tons of scraps, lots of low volume fabrics, and Denyse Schmidt's Single Girl.

This was my design wall on Friday night. I know, it looks like my sewing induced ADD is back. I so love all the four projects I started over the last few days but it was time to decide to work on just one since there's no more room on my design wall.

I started my Single Girl quilt after seeing Jolene's amazing, gorgeously scrappy version. I could not help it, I simply HAD TO shamelessly copy get inspired and start my own.

I decided to go randomly scrappy, so there's no order to my color placement. And boy is it fun!!! I don't think I have ever enjoyed working on a quilt this much before (and I do love quilting). It's probably all those tons of scraps and other happy fabrics (Jamie, thanks for the beautiful zig zags) that make me giddy with excitement every time I look at them.

As of right now, I'm about half way done with piecing. I decided to go with  a 3 x 3 blocks layout, which will make for a very nice lap sized quilt.

OK, off to get some more sewing done.

Linking up to Chase's weekending. Hope you'll stop by her blog and see what she, and others, have been up to this weekend. I'm sure you'll love all her amazing scrappy creations, she's a master, as well as her beautifully colorful Single Girl quilt she finished a few days ago. Or, even better, why don't you write up a post about your Weekending and link up?

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