Sewing Stories ~ The Quilt is Finished!

Yay! Finally, after about three years and many small projects completed in between, my double quilt is finished! I decided to machine quilt all of the plain panels but hand quilted under the black outlining in the flower panels. The binding was 10cm lengths of all of the coloured fabrics randomly arranged.

When I laid it out on the floor to trim the binding, it was the first time I'd seen the over all effect of the quilting. It was a struggle at times, but I felt really proud of how it looked. All together, I'm really pleased although in hindsight, I wish I'd taken more care to trim the darker fabric under the seams of the white fabric as some of it shows through the light fabric. At that stage I was eager to get on with the machine quilting!

 

You can read about the inspiration for the quilt here and the trials of my machine quilting journey here.

I hope you like the quilt and would love to hear what you think about it!

Gillian x

New! Digital Downloads on Etsy

I finally opened an Etsy shop, to discover that they do digital downloads of images now. I browsed through my recent collection and came up with four images to try. It's always hard to know what will sell so I hope you like my selection!

Purple Poppies

Champagne Glasses

Garlic Press

Orange Gerberra

 They are all available as 10"x8"/10"x10" size Jpegs to download and use for your own personal use for £7.50. Here's the link to my Etsy shop.

Thanks for reading, and look out for more from my Etsy shop.
Gillian x

Watercolour Prints

I have at long last, got round to photographing my watercolour paintings with a view to getting prints made from them. It's a bit of an unknown quantity as you don't know whether people will like them or not. But once they're printed, they're printed!

I've been thinking about doing it for ages and now I think I should just go for it! I've never been one to think that my painting is great but I have sold a few originals and that always gives you confidence!

So look out soon for an Etsy store from me, selling prints!

Here are some of the paintings that I'm considering. I'd love to hear about which ones you like.

Thanks for looking!
Gillian x