Thursday, June 3, 2010

My creative space... all good things come to an end.

My Scrap Management Quilt is finished.

I'm thrilled, because it can now embrace its function as the go-to snuggle quilt on the family couch. But I'm sad, because I really enjoyed each process of making it (apart from the basting). And I'm thrilled, because the Beloved thoroughly approves of this sort of quilty aesthetic and can see that there was method in my madness, as well as madness in my method. But I'm sad, because in my enthusiasm I seem to have stuffed the thread tension on my (newly serviced!) sewing machine beyond redemption and cannot therefore get on with any of the other machine quilting, apron-making and so forth that I'm itching to do. But mostly, I'm thrilled.



Here are some pictures (taken in the glamourous car park behind our unit!).
From a distance:


The front (I ditched the border idea and just made some brown binding to finish):


The back (red-striped ticking, shows the puckers up really well!):


A closer look:

A collage of my favourite little clashy places on the quilt:


Yes, this quilt is certainly 'differnt'. And yet just how I imagined it.

Thank you, creative spacers, for encouraging me along the way with this quilt over these last few months. It's the type of quilt that could've been designed, cut, pieced and finished in a weekend, but instead I've averaged an hour per week on it, because machine-sewing just isn't fitting easily into my world - time, space or technique-wise. Perhaps my sewing machine is telling me something? Oh well, nothing for it but to snuggle up under my new quilt and get on with those ugly hexagons!

Now go and drop by Kirsty's house and let her know how spunky she looks in her slashy vest before you join in with your creative space for the week...

67 comments:

  1. Love it, love it - it really works and will stand the test of time. Brilliant work!

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  2. Terrific waste management. It looks really warm hanging over your couch. Looking at your sweet puckers makes me realise I shouldn't be agfraid to do some machine quilting and let the puckers shine through too!! I'm always too scared so thanks for the encouragement. Cherrie

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  3. What, you don't like my shoes any more?! (Well, I'll have to admit that they are pretty grubby slippers so I don't blame you). It looks awesome Gina. Enjoy snuggling under it!

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  4. Gina, its brilliant! You managed to take your very diffrent "scrap" prints and arrange them so they look beautiful together. Its very clever.

    Enjoy it on those chilly winter evenings!

    (PS. You would be impressed with my Master 3 - I asked him to pop a couple of off-cuts in the bin and he looked me in the eye and said "No mummy, we don't put fabric in the bin")

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  5. this looks fantastic ... but when did you move into my house? the bricks are the same and you have my fence. too scary.

    My Creative Space

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  6. Oh that is one awesome quilt. I love your choice of fabrics!

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  7. This thing could lay anywhere and be the star of the show...Love it!!

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  8. it is fantastic gina. i wish you and yours many long hours of snuggling under it. don't be sad about the project coming to an end. make one for me!

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  9. Ah, you really are just one great big bit of INSPIRE! Love it with bells on, G.

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  10. Love it! All scraps, yet it works well. Definitely inspires me to persevere with my scrap basket.

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  11. Yes, I will Vote 1 "Clutterpunk" for inspiration of the week. Wish I was so clever, love your work!

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  12. OH MY! Gina, it is so brilliant- you must be so thrilled with it... I am really scared of quilts so much as I don't think I am neat enough.... I won a mini quilts book over at Jodi ricracs blog so I may start there.... this just makes me really want to do it though... I love it so much!

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  13. fabulous, you have me rummaging in my scrap pile!

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  14. Gina!!
    It's grand!!
    Love it!!
    I am sad you miss the process but there will be more projects with therapeutic properties!!

    Coffee over at my blog today?

    xo Steph

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  15. highly impressed, hooray for a finished project

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  16. It is really gorgeous. I love quilts like that, not in to everything too perfect and matching colours. Well done.

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  17. That looks fantastic. A good wash always hides small puckers :)

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  18. Oh my, I love love love this!! I love that you've mixed texty fabrics with hand screen-prints and other quilty fabric delights. Love it!!

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  19. That looks wonderful! I always think that the quilts made out of scraps look far more interesting than a quilt that you buy in a set and which all goes together. Much more original and personal this way.

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  20. Oh Gina - I LOVE it! I really really love it so much. Scrap Management Quilting has been added to the 'to do' list... Thanks for the inspiration :) Kx

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  21. Your quilt is so inspiring! I love it! The ticking is ace and I like that it doesn't have a border. I can see why you are so pleased, what an amazing achievment xo

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  22. Gina, it's beautiful! You did good, kid.

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  23. Gina - it's absolutely awesome. I haven't seen it in the making but the end result is just FAB!!!! It's great to enjoy the whole process. You'll just have to start "collecting scraps" again (once the hexagon project is finished)and take inspiration from them for your next quilt! xx

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  24. stunning! Hope you don,t mind I'm including it on today's blog post xx

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  25. gina, gina, gina....its drop dead gorgeous!! Just BEAUTIFUL!! Congratulations to you love...its one of the finest I have seen xx

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  26. Oh wow, it looks great! I love it! Congratulations, you must be so happy!

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  27. Good on you Gina! The quilt looks bloody fantastic!

    Looking forward to seeing your next quilty creation x

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  28. Cripes, it looks fantastic!

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  29. Brilliant and more brilliant. It's come together so well. Now, have faith in your hex's, they WILL work together!

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  30. Wow, great quilt!! Really really like it- the boring basting so worthwhile! I think your Hexies will work out just fine. Hope your machine feels better soon.

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  31. I'd be thrilled too if I made something as amazing as your quilt! Maybe your machine just needs a little holiday to the doctors.

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  32. utterly fabulous Gina, love all the fabrics {especially that text heavy one, sublime} and the ticking back, just gorgeous! well done, you must be very proud

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  33. congrats on finishing - looks fantastic. i am loving the newspaper print fabric!
    my sister lou makes cufflinks out of it. she was over this morning making some while i looked after her boys and there are now little scraps of it all over my floor......

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  34. Its lovely!!!

    I like the brown binding. I imagine your great garndkids will be snuggling under it one day :-)

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  35. It is fabulous! I love how you have used all your scraps - the quilt is already full of memories. Basting terrifies me - I have three quilt tops here waiting to be basted. I may just have to jump in....

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  36. Gina, it turned out really wonderful. It's a bit chaotic, in a good way. To me this is what a scrappy quilt should look like. Great work!

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  37. OMG - you are amazing. That's the best quilt I've ever seen! Congratlations!
    Cheers,
    Luna

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  38. It looks fab. I can't imagine how it would look with a border, but surely nowhere near as good as it does with just binding. Well done!

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  39. oh Gina it is absolutely gorgeous, you have done amazing work it looks great

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  40. such good work even with a little puckering i am doing my first quilt just now and i am now addicted!!! xx

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  41. That is brilliant! What a wonderfully eclectic quilt. Bravo to you! Wishing you a cold Friday...so you can snuggle under your quilt with a cuppa and a yummy book :)

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  42. wow! well done!
    it looks so great, i don't think you could ever get tired of looking at it :)
    double bonus that you got approval too!

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  43. i love the mix of fabrics. great job!

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  44. Congratulations! It's a beautiful quilt! Love it:)

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  45. Congrats on finishing it! It's beautiful and how nice to curl up in something that you put so much work into.

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  46. It's excellent, Gina, just perfect! You are inspiring me to make my own 'scrap control' quilt!

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  47. Holy Moly lady that looks bloody sensational! I love the clashes, I love the binding, I love the quilting (and I know what you men about puckering although I can't see any) and I love thinking of you tucked up on your couch surrounded by it in all it's glory! xx

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  48. Fantastic! Well done Miss Gina. You are such an inspiration x

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  49. Freakin love it! Well done and happy snuggle time.
    Ab

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  50. Not only absolutely gorgeous but inspiring too which I think is really special

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  51. Just super loving the scrap management quilt. You've done a fabulous, fabulous job.

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  52. Yay!! Looks great! Ah, the satisfaction of completion :) xx

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  53. I love your quilt. I love scrappy looking quilts, and the layout and randomness is perfect. Great work Gina

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  54. Gina what a talent you are! The blanket is just fabulous! I'd leave it on all weekend and sit knitting, eating, drinking tea and reading. Congratulations!! xo m.

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  55. Wow - this quilt is just beautiful ... may have inspired me ... that quilting could maybe be my bag after all!!

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  56. Loving that quote. Brilliant. I'm loving your quilt too... very very much. Just so lovely.

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  57. Just to let you know there's a little award waiting for you over on my blog. Please don't feel you have to do it but would love to know 10 more things about you and maybe find some new reading in the process! Hope you're having a great weekend. x

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  58. yes I love this quilt very very much. I did a similar themed one - though not anywhere near as nice!

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  59. Thats brilliant...out of scraps too...very impressed!

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  60. What a wonderful quilty finish!!!
    Enjoy the snuggling.
    Andi :-)

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  61. OH that quilt is GREAT!!!!!

    Yes now I want to see the finished hexagon quilt (wink!)

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  62. It's wonderful!! You have inspired me :)

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  63. It's gorgeous - and even better that it's from 'scraps'!

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  64. Awesome, totally awesome! I bet each little piece has memory associations all of its own!

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“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
~Albert Einstein