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Montag, 30. September 2013

The Double Wedding Ring Selvage Baby Quilt




A few weeks ago I sat in my "studio" wondering what to sew next. I saw my selvages and somehow came up with the idea of using them in a double wedding ring quilt pattern. I enjoyed the making and the result so much, that I went on and finished four blocks of it, the perfect size for a babyquilt.


Today I have my day of, and so I took my good camera and the cute quilt and drove to a  special sight at the edge of Berlin to the "Insel der Jugend" ("The isle of youth"). This little island surrounded by the River Spree is very special to me, as I went there every day a few years ago, when I was in the middle of a heavily depressed time. The calm, the sun and the water helped me to recover and because of the nice landscape I came back later for fashion- and now even for quilt-shootings. As I did today.



Unfortunately it was very windy and I forgot to bring all the tools which could have fixed the quilt to trees, railings, bushes etc.
Because of that I was quite afraid a few times and already imagined me jumping into the icecold and dirty water to get my lovely quilt out. Luckily me and the quilt arrived safely back home. With some nice pictures on the camera.

Here you can see them, be aware, there are many of them!



By the way, the pattern I used is from Aneela Hoeys Pickledish Quiltalong from 2010. Back then I made my first Queen sized quilt with this pattern.
As some recommended I will enter this quilt in the DWR Callenge hosted by the NYC MOD Quilt Guild. Who knows... :-)




12 Kommentare:

  1. Wow, you really should enter it. It's amazing, and makes me wish I had a selvage collection.

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  2. Eiine wunderbar morderne Umsetzung des Themas. Klasse!

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  3. seeeeeehr cool, der wedding - ring mit Selvages ! Habe ich noch nie so gesehen!
    I have to copy !

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  4. Der ist echt toll geworden. Und falls du nicht weißt, wohin damit, ich könnte ihn in meinem Nähbereich aufhängen oder meine Tochter könnte damit Picknick machen oder ihre Kuscheltiere damit zudecken oder oder oder. Echt schön geworden. Ich geh nochmal Bilder gucken.

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  5. Da hast du was echt cooles hingelegt! Super Quilt und dann noch diese Location zum Fotografieren - granate!

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  6. That is so beautiful and you are very clever! Thank you for sharing.

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  7. Das ist ja ein supermoderner Klassiker geworden.
    Er sieht so wundervoll aus.
    Glückwunsch für Dein tolles Projekt.

    LG
    Hala

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  8. I love this as a creative use of selvages! Cool!
    Barb@Witsend

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  9. Sehr sehr cool! Für diese Challenge will ich auch noch was nähen. Hab aber noch keine richtige Inspiration.
    LG
    Susanne

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  10. WOW!! Your quilt is brilliant!! Using selvedges is such a great idea and the backing fabrics you've used are perfect!! I Love it!!

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  11. This is the best use of selvedges that I've ever seen...you are so clever. I'm totally going to copy you (highest form of praise ;-))...love your work!

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