0 the swoon {a finish}

My Swoon quilt is finally finished, yay! It's been such a long time since I finished anything larger than a baby quilt, so it feels especially good to have this giant crossed off my wip list :)

I first started working on this quilt way back in June. I so enjoyed picking fabric and slowly sewing each and every one of these blocks.

All was going well. I assembled my quilt top, backed it with lovely AMH flannel, I even started hand quilting some of the blocks, when I realized that the fabric I used for one of the stars (middle row on the right) was going to bleed when washed :( I used this dark red fabric in another small project and after washing it the color bled all over, pretty much ruining the whole thing.

I knew some serious "quilt surgery" was the only way to go. I carefully removed the offending block, made a new block, and successfully patched the whole quilt top up, phew!!! OK, it was a lot harder than I made it look right now. There was sashing involved, and 505 sticky spray, and the batting and backing - it was no fun, I tell you.

I then went back to hand quilting, outlining each middle star as well as the outside of the main block.

I decided to go with light aqua binding at first, but it did not feel right. So, once again, my seam ripper got busy and I replaced the light colored binding with this dark navy one. Aaaah, much better! I think the dark binding pulls all these colorful blocks into one cohesive quilt.

All in all, a pretty rocky way to get to the finished quilt, but finished it is and looking mighty well, if I say so myself :)

Finished size of this quilt is about 76" x 76" and the pattern is by Camille Roskeley.

And, since it's neither practical nor reasonable to keep every single quilt I make, I decided to list this lovely scrappy Swoon in my etsy store.

Thanks for reading. Svetlana

Detail: the swoon {a finish}

0 lately...

Lately I felt so overwhelmed by my Swoon and Pinkie Pie quilts. I barely made any progress on either over the last few weeks, so this morning I decided to attach the binding to my Swoon. 

As you can see from the picture above, I'm not even close to being done with my hand quilting. I just needed to feel like the end is near, thus the binding on an unfinished quilt. I'll clearly do anything to trick my mind into thinking a lot less work is ahead of me than it actually is :)

I also made these two very simple pillows for my sister. I found it hard to work with warm colors she really likes (plus she asked for no blue or gray!!!!), but I quite like the way they turned out. It's always good to step out of your comfort zone, right?

And then I made my non-patchwork loving oldest daughter this lunch bag using Amy's pattern from her book Zakka Handmades. 

And then I was in serious need of some very colorful patchworky goodness so I worked on these epp hexagons and kept turning them into flowers. I have no idea what to do with them, though. I think I'll just keep making more and more (they are so relaxing) and wait for the right project to come along.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Svetlana

Detail: lately...

0 weekend sewing

Happy Monday, everyone!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Mine was wonderful. Nothing much happened, just regular everyday family stuff, but I got to sew quite a lot and it felt wonderful.

I made some progress on my middle daughter's Pinkie Pie quilt. Those 1" finished squares are a pain to piece together, but I'm loving the way this quilt is turning out.

I even decided to piece all the white areas. I'm hoping to be a pro at precision piecing once I'm done with this giant of a quilt.

Also, I finally basted and started hand quilting my Swoon quilt. I'm quite enjoying it so far but I do have a loooong way to go.  What is it with me and all these time consuming projects I keep taking on?

And these are my pretty weeds/ flowers. They have nothing to do with sewing, I just find them so amazingly beautiful.

Wishing you all a very lovely Monday. Svetlana

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0 this and that

Hello, happy Thursday to you all.

It's been pretty slow and quiet in the sewing area lately as the kids and I are trying to find the right schedule and activities for the summer.

I did, however, manage to make these two patchwork chair pads. Now I just need to make three more and our kitchen chairs will no longer have to go all "naked". Plus, they are so much more comfy to sit on.

I also did a little bit more swooning. Six blocks down, three more to go.

And I got my little peeps to sew, too. It took a little persuading to get my son to understand that : "Look mom, no hands!" is very cool for bike riding, but not sewing :)

Wishing you all a very lovely day.  Svetlana

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0 time to swoon

I bought Camille's Swoon pattern months ago but never felt like tackling this quilt even one bit. And then, a few days ago, I suddenly knew it was time to Swoon. I found my pattern, ordered some fabric (I'm using Sketch in mist grey for the background), and last night I made my first block.

I'm in love !!!! 

I think this will be a perfect quilt for our bed, I'm even planning on hand quilting it this summer.

What fun projects are you working on?

Detail: time to swoon