pezzy spiderweb

The pezzy spiderweb is my 2013 spring string fling. It finished at 62" by 76" on Quiters Dream Request (thinnest) cotton batting, hand quilted in perle cotton no 16. It is nice and heavy with a lovely drape,  very colorful and happy! The finished blocks measures 14.5" after quilting. 

Not the first and probably not my last quilt using this great old pattern. I started making these blocks last  year, but really dove into the string bin this spring. Rachels fun festival of strings gave me an extra push to finishing it up   ; ) Thank you Rachel!

If you take a look, you will find LOTS of inspiration there...

wednesday wip

So happy to have a quilt sandwich prepared for lots of hand quilting! My pezzy spiderweb top is put together and I couldn't help myself - had to do a little bit of quilting right away...

The blocks are quite large, about 15" square and with a more narrow and pointed star than in my tutorial (on the sidebar). Lately the concept of SCALE keeps coming to mind. So I find myself fascinated  with larger blocks. So far the 15" square ruler is my biggest ruler, and that stops me from going any bigger...

Sandy Klop's pezzy print and some of her dots makes the stars of the spiderweb. They are all different. This choice is very inspired by Katy Jones lovely spiderweb quilt...

Quite colorful, I dare say... And hopefully it will take me A LONG TIME to finish hand quilting this one. Trying to tell myself to pace the hand quilting. I love that part too much, it makes it hard to stop in time and keep my shoulder pain free. This one has the thin cotton batting (quilters dream request). Aiming for a lovely wrinkly texture after washing it up.

Wish you a colorful wednesday!

strings on a saturday

For me, the start of a new year is always a good time to get more organized. Looking through my stash, scraps and wips... I am making slow progress on my spiderweb blocks that was started last year ...

Over time I have collected strings with this wip in mind. The strings vary in width but fit into the colors I choose for the quilt. 

I am aiming for 15" finished blocks in a layout of 60" * 75". This will be a busy and colorful one!

After putting the few finished blocks on the design wall, I decided to cut out the base square for the rest of the 20 blocks. I am using my own tutorial for these with a few adaptions:

• larger squares to start with
• a more narrow star forming in the center

I was not happy to dig through a lot of strings , so I decided to sort and divided them by color to make it easier to grab a few of each... The challenge of making these blocks for me is to have good contrast and distribution of color throughout the quilt. I also think a good mix of light and dark values make the blocks more vibrant. 

Enjoying the slow progress as these spiderweb blocks are fun, but not so quick to make. This quilt will be a labor of (scrappy string) love as the spiderweb is one of my most favorite traditional patterns.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

a new wednesday wip

for a long time I have been wanting to make another spiderweb

a full string bin,

fat quarters of mono pez 

and easter holidays finally got me started...

these blocks are big, starting with a 16" square

wish you a lovely wednesday

; )