Category: Putting Quilts Together

  • Simple Yet Evocative

    Simple Yet Evocative

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    Allison Rainville

    A while back, I said I was still debating the sky fabric for the Gimsøy quilt. I had a couple of options, but the one I was leaning strongly toward had a hole cut out of one corner and wasn’t going to be big enough. I knew where I’d gotten…

  • Deadlines Are a Great Motivator

    Deadlines Are a Great Motivator

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    Allison Rainville

    A few weeks ago, I said that I wanted to finish those four quilts before I speak to my guild in September. The College Fjord quilt is done. The Acadia sunrise quilt is now almost done as well. Let’s take a look at what I’ve done. There were two questions…

  • The Border Debate Continues

    The Border Debate Continues

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    Allison Rainville

    The debate about borders continues. This time, it’s the Acadia sunrise quilt. This is where it stands now: I finished sewing the horizontal strips together several days ago, and I put it back up on the design wall and just could not figure out what to do next in terms…

  • Another Bargello Takes Shape

    Another Bargello Takes Shape

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    Allison Rainville

    I am SO not doing another bargello. Now that I’ve (mostly) got all of the pieces together for the Hus Ved Havet quilt and definitely have it all hung up on the design wall, I am DONE with this bargello idea. I am going to love both of these quilts…

  • Getting Closer

    Getting Closer

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    Allison Rainville

    The College Fjord quilt top is finished! Well, the quilt-as-you-go portion is done, and it mostly came out well. It’s only slightly wonky, and while there are some things that are clearly not “right,” the overall effect is exactly what I was going for. I will save the final reveal…

  • January is 4529 Days Long, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The other two quilts – the College Fjord quilt and the Hus Ved Havet quilt – are both coming along nicely, but I am getting to the end of my tolerance of the fiddliness of the bargello, so I am glad that I limited myself to these two in that…

  • January is 4529 Days Long, Part 1

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s the end of January, and I don’t know about you, but this January in particular has felt interminable. Neverending. What do you mean there’s still a week left?! Wasn’t Christmas three months ago? At the same time, it feels like it has not been all that long since I…

  • A Different Kind of Bargello

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    Allison Rainville

    You’d think that sewing straight lines would be easy. You’d be wrong. I started working on the College Fjord quilt today, sewing more vertical strips onto the batting and backing. I realized after I’d worked for a while that somehow, I’d gone wonky. The top of what I’ve sewn together…

  • Now that the Holidays Are Over

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    Allison Rainville

    I took the week of Christmas off, and in between wrapping gifts, celebrating with my family, and reorganizing my sewing room, I was able to get a little more of both the College Fjord and Hus Ved Havet quilts done. I decided once and for all that I wasn’t going…

  • And the Quilting Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I finished up the vertical strips yesterday and started the quilt-as-you-go method of sewing them together today. It’s slow going. As I’ve always said, my ability to match seams in bargello quilts is quite frankly abysmal, so nothing lines up properly. You’d think that because I strip-pieced the sky, all…