Days of rain and wet soil...finally things dried up. As soon as I came home from work today, I quickly got changed, sorted the boy out with his toys, put the meat on to the BBQ and ran across the street to take a few photos of my Modern Christmas Trees quilt which I finished a few days ago. I managed to take a few nice enough photos in ten minutes-ten minutes was enough to burn the meat. That's another story...
Here is the Modern Christmas Trees.
I like the scrappy binding a lot. The red piece is also pointing the right way up!
I really enjoyed quilting this quilt with pebbles. It looks simple; it is only making circles at the end of the day. Well, that's what I thought until I started quilting. Don't remember how many times I watched the pebbles section of
Christina Cameli's FMQ Craftsy class LOL. I can't recommend it enough; it really helped me get the hang of stitching pebbles. Having said that, none of them are perfect; well, pebbles are not found in that perfect circle form in nature, are they? (Justification done.)
I didn't quilt the triangles; therefore they look puckered a little, especially the red triangles, but I am fine with it.
What do you think? Have you tried pebbling before? What was your experience?
Nurdan
These modern trees look great and I love your quilting :)
ReplyDeleteThe pebbles look great - congratulations on the finish. I also really like the touch of red in the binding - lovely! Pebbles are fun if you can relax into them and go with a bit of "wonky". They also take a really long time (at least in my experience). I do love the texture they add to a quilt though, and it is probably my husband's favorite quilting pattern.
ReplyDeleteLove the texture the pebbles give it. I'm folowing that class too and only just got to pebbles, she makes it look so easy!
ReplyDeleteOh I love this Nurdan! Great job!
ReplyDeleteLove this! WTG I have done pebbling but it never looks this nice!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful! I love the pebbly feeling :)
ReplyDeleteWow! Your pebbling looks great Nurdan! There is no better practice than what you just did. I am very happy for you. Nothing will stop you! : )
ReplyDeleteThat is SUCH a great quilt, and the quilting is fabulous - the perfect contrast to the straight lines of the trees :D The pieced binding is the icing on the cake - very nice :D Sorry about the burned meat though - I actually prefer my steaks - and I know chefs hate this, but I can't help it - "Chicago" style (charred on the outside) and well done inside :D Whatever you cooked that was burned - I probably would have eaten, LOL!!
ReplyDeleteI think your pebble quilting looks great! It looks really even and neat to me. I have tried before, and like you I felt a bit disappointed, like they weren't as good as others. But it was my first go at it, so I guess I'll get better with practice.
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