The Queen Sister's Blanket

Here is the progress of my giant granny square blanket, as promised yesterday. As I said in my previous post,  I found my inspiration watching the Netflix last season of The Crown series. It was interesting and quite astonishing to see such a blanket in the living room of the sister's queen : a whimsy touch in a classical traditional decor I guess, in accordance with the unconventional personality of the sister's queen.

I wish I could progress more in my crochet but I had other priorities, such as housework and garden duties : gathering the fallen leaves in the front garden, and then welcoming my grand children. We shall start soon baking cookies!

In the last picture my crochet square is displayed on the first quilt I made, an Eight Point Star pattern.

You can buy this blanket from my Etsy shop : pochonsEtcomptines

My new Etsy shop : yayaCousette

Baby Quilt Finished

Being unable to spend hours and hours quilting as I used to do in the past, due to pains in the back, I just quilted this baby quilt with big stitches, following the sides of the small squares of the four patch blocks, using variegated colored threads. The final result is quite pleasant.

Simone's Baby Quilt

After a very long absence from my blog, I am back with the last quilt I achieved.

It was a very easy and quick baby quilt to complete, though hand quilted. 

I started end of September and finished beginning of November, just in time before flying to Paris : 

last stitches the night before!

This quilt is a gift for my niece who decorated the bedroom of her future daughter using very soft colors. I first intended to sew a quilt using my beloved Liberty fabrics but, after I received the pictures of the wallpapers, I put them away and decided to try a new fabric selection.

Quite happy with it... the colors matched successfully! 

I love the atmosphere of this baby girl's room... definitely sweet romantic.

Those pictures were taken in Paris, three days before Simone's birth!

Ebreuil Quilt Exhibition 2017 First Part

How lucky I was, arriving at my summer place in Auvergne last July, to find there was a quilt exhibition... and what an exhibition... absolutely wonderful!
Here are shown reproduction quilts, hand pieced and hand quilted, in an absolute respect of the tradition. Perfect work of meticulousness in the details, so impressive! Some of those quilts are a life achievement! Congratulations to the artists!!!

Log Cabin Baby Quilt Finished

Here is my last post before leaving Greece to spend the summer in France. Despite my troubles after injuring my spine, I managed little by little to finish hand quilting this baby quilt for my seven months' old grand daughter. It is the reason why the quilting is rather basic...

You can find HERE my Log Cabin tutorial. 

HERE the references for the measurements of this baby quilt and the fabric line I used.

Wishing you all a beautiful summer holiday!

Herringbone Baby Quilt INSTRUCTIONS

Here are the pictures of my Herringbone baby quilt finished and offered to my niece in Paris.

The gray color recalls Paris' sky, the blue is for the baby boy and the yellow gives a sunny touch.

For this quilt I did 80 blocks of 4.5" x 4.5 each (11.5 cm)

To make the triangles I cut strips of 5" wide (12.7 cm) from each color, then squares of 5" (12.7 cm) and then cut diagonal to obtain 2 triangles. 

The final size of the finished quilt is 32" x 40" (81.5 x 101.5 cm)

Fan Quilt

So happy to receive those lovely pictures from my niece in Paris! I had offered her this Fan quilt few years ago and she was pleased to show me how great it looks on her new sofa.

How rewarding it is when you make a quilt for a beloved one and you see that it is cherished!

I had done this Fan quilt exclusively with Kaffe Fassett fabrics. It is square (about 1yard 25 x 1 yard 25) machine pieced and hand quilted.

Yellow Leaves Cushion

Although December arrived, we still have a mild autumn here in Athens. The colors of the trees are beautiful against bleu sky and sunshine.

I did a cushion with four leftover blocks and hand quilted it.

Wishing a wonderful December month to everyone!