Octopus patchwork

Texte en français en bas de la page Let's continue the series of quilts I have gifted over the summer !  The second quilt was another graduation quilt for my daughter.  When she graduated from High school I designed with her one of my first quilts ' les cerf volants de Maastricht ', a modern HST quilt. As explained in the last post , she is very sorry but does not find it cozy. As she obtained her Bachelor degree in July, it was time to try and correct this. I have been looking for the cozi est and cuddliest quilt imaginable for this. And that is how I came up with  ombre puff , a free quilt pattern and tutorial by Lo and behold stitchery. Each square is filled with filling. and I also added the same tick plush backing as in my KIRA quilt. No batting this time, I felt it would be tick enough. My daughter still loves orange and blues and I bought batiks in these colors. I added pinks and purple. I have to admit that choosing the place of each of these squares was difficult f

Texte en français en bas de la page Over the summer, I was finally able to  travel around and reconnect with friends and relatives not seen in a long time. That also means that I have been able to give a series of quilts to their intended recipients. Some of them finished quite some times ago. Most of these quilts I have not blogged about. One of them never had any pictures posted on Instagram either.  Now, it is time to correct this and blog about each of these finishes. I decided that I would blog about them in the order I gave them, not in the order they were finished The first quilt I gave was a high school graduation quilt for my niece. When I asked for advice, her mother told me she liked 'all kind of greens'.  I choose a the KIRA pattern from GE design. It does not contain a twin size version, but I found an idea I liked on the #kira hashtag of Instagram to change the border and make it the size I wanted. I selected green and yellow batiks and I really like the results.