Tag: Norway

  • Where Did Summer Go?!

    Where Did Summer Go?!

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s not that I haven’t been working on quilts – I definitely have! It’s that summer is always a little shorter than we think it’s going to be when we’re looking at it in June. I was laid off in June, and I told myself I’d use the time of…

  • 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…

  • On to the Next Quilt

    On to the Next Quilt

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    Allison Rainville

    I received the fabric printouts of the two pictures that I wanted to use like I used the image in the Tracy Arm quilt, and now I’m rethinking my strategy on at least one of them. Come along on my thinking process journey. This is the original image: It’s the…

  • Catching Up

    Catching Up

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a while. In late February, I discovered that there was an issue with my website’s hosting service (although I didn’t know exactly what the issue was at the time). It took several months to resolve, and I have had to recreate my entire website over the last week.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Now That Proof of Concept Exists, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The Hus Ved Havet image (see previous post) will be divided into five sections, each with its own coloring and bargello method: the land in the foreground (greens/yellow-greens), the water (gray-blues), the mountain (grays), the sky (a blue-to-yellow ombre I originally bought for the College Fjord quilt but that didn’t…

  • Now That Proof of Concept Exists, Part 1

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    Allison Rainville

    When I originally decided to attempt an image using a bargello concept, I had two images in mind that I wanted this to work with. One was obviously the College Fjord quilt, which is on pause briefly until I have the right color again but is clearly going to be…