some finished projects

I've had a number of unfinished (or even unstarted) quilted projects lying around lately. Most of them were designated as gifts, even if I had intended to give the gift months ago...

Here are some pictures of the projects:

For my classmate, Dan, and his wife, Amy, who just got married, I made a wall-hanging (or challah cover - depending on how they want to use it) of pomegranates. It is a design that I modeled off of a painting that I saw online.

Here's a close-up of the large pomegranate:


And here is a close-up of the small pomegranates:

For Dafna, the new daughter of classmates Sharon and Hillel, I made a baby blanket. I wanted to practice the quilting technique of stippling, which uses free-flowing stitching to fill in an area or decorate with stitches.

The lighting in my apartment wasn't so great when I took these pictures. In person, the blanket is much prettier! (If you look closely, you can see the stippling in the light pink and dark pink boarders, as well as the flower design in the upper-left-inner-pink square.)

Here's a close up:

I know its hard to tell by the photos, but the fabric varies. There is fluffy, terry-cloth white fabric next to flannel pink fabric. The butterflies are appliqued on top of them. The goal, of course, was to give the baby different textures to play with...or spit up on!

I also finished one of my student's t-shirt quilts from Exploration Week. She was the only student who didn't finish the project by the end, and with no working sewing machines by the end of the week, it looked doubtful that she would be able to finish it without some extra help. So I've had it for nearly two months, but only now got to finish it.

And finally, I want to show off one more project that I finished recently. I started it during Exploration Week when I learned the techniques, and finished it over Passover. It isn't (yet) designated for anyone, and is actually on sale on Etsy.com (want it?).

and here are some close-ups:

and even closer...

So there you have it...three newly finished projects. As President Bartlett would say, "What's next?"

Comments

[Mira]

Those are absolutely gorgeous, Rachel!