Here is my simple, yet effective Wee Wander Quilt that I made for my 8 year-old niece.
I love the simple design because it alternates between 6" strips of patterned fabric and 2" strips of Kona White. I love how this let's the colors and patterns of the fabric shine.
I hand-quilted this little number with some coral-colored pearl cotton. It can be pretty tough to hand sew through minky, so quilter beware :)
This quilt is simple in design and effective because of how it lets the fabric be the star of the show. It was also simple and effective because while making this quilt I needed something simple.
All in all, the most important thing is that my niece loves it!
Thank you all for your kind comments and emails about my quilting anxiety in the last post. You've all offered some great advice and I've started to implement a few of your suggestions. For example, I don't check my blog feed every night (trying the suggestion to just read on Fridays/Saturdays) and I've skimmed back on my participation in blog link parties.
I've slowly started to re-enter blogging and emailing. If you follow me on Instagram you'll see that I've started quilting/sewing more frequently, usually in small 1/2 hour bursts on the weekends.
To hand-quilt or to machine quilt, that is the question...
I find that this is an interesting question to ask quilters. There are some who enjoy the hand-quilting and believe this to be the best way, while others love the speed and consistency or "look" of the machine quilting. Some quilters are more passionate than others with their opinions.
For me, I enjoy the hand-quilting, but can only get myself to do it every four quilts or so. And sometimes I only do it when I have a tight deadline. Wait, isn't hand-quilting supposed to take longer? Sometimes yes, but my trusted quilter tends to have a 3-4 turn around and sometimes a girl does not have that scheduled into her timeline.
This weekend I started hand-quilting an adorable project for my niece. She is turning eight and in my faith, it's a big milestone. As a part of this milestone, my sister asked for a quilt...with a short timeline. The result is a simpler quilt that I'm excited to share, but I'm waiting on finishing the hand-quilting first!
The quilt features some of the Wee Wander fabric along with prints from my stash. To make the quilt more snuggly, I used a "flamingo" colored minky for the backing. The coral color lent itself well to some pearl cotton and I'm now off to the races.
By the way, it's a little tougher to hand quilt through minky...just an fyi.
Crossing my fingers I can get this hand-quilted this weekend!
