Smitten quilt

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Hello Friend’s I hope it’s been a beautiful start to your July!I have been enjoying the warmer days and the lovely flowers in my garden. I want to share a beautiful quilt that Gayleen sent it’s tru…

Smitten Quilt - English Paper Pieced quilt with machine and big stitch hand quilting using Aurifil 12wt cotton thread.

Every time I make a new hexie it becomes my new favourite. I am just loving every single stitch that is going into this quilt. One of the questions I have been asked a lot is "What does the back look like". There have been many questions about my seam allowance, glue basting versus thread basting and lots more. Here is a pic of the back of one of my Hexes. I find the 1/4 in seam allowance on the templates that I have been cutting is plenty for my paper piecing. I am glue basting and if you…

Have you conquered the Y-seam yet? :) I don't know about those of you who have been sewing along, but I thoroughly enjoyed making the Large Hexagon One blocks last month! The opportunity to fussy cut in these was so fun that I got carried away and made an extra block! One of my goals was to mix and match from my stash and all of my favorite designers and make every block one that I love. I was pretty pleased that I was able to get Tula Pink, Bonnie & Camille, Kate Spain, and Katy Jones to…

I can't believe I have stitched the final hand quilted stitches into my Smitten Quilt. This quilting adventure has take me most of the year but I have never more enjoyed hand stitching and hand quilting. When I first started this quilt - fussy cutting was not on my agenda. I had only bought Fat 16ths of my fabrics so this mostly wasn't possible with that size of material. However as the year went on and I got my hands on some larger pieces of fabric just perfect for fussy cutting I could not…

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but Smitten the Quilt is delightful! (I'm pretty sure my hubby wasn't humming this when he was holding the quilt up for me to take the photo but maybe was thinking it would have been nice if I had finished this last week when there wasn't any snow on the ground and the temperature was a tad bit warmer.) Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall or just one month shy of one year is how long it took for me to make my Smitten Quilt. It had all of the makings to be a…

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