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Fairy Door Quilt Pattern

A few weeks ago I made a 10″ magic fairy door and I used the block to make a 14″ pillowcase. The quilting process started having a mind of its own and I was happy to oblige.

My original idea was to hand quilt everything. There was one problem – my stitches are still in the medium size range and the leaves looked horrible and clunky instead of small and delicate. I have done free motion quilting only once and that was probably a couple of years ago. So I took a deep breath, removed the little hand quilting I had done and started free motion quilting the vines and the leaves. As usual, my fear proved unjustified. Since I can adjust the speed of the pedal of my machine, it went rather smoothly. I am happy with the way the quilting turned out, even with the smattering of imperfections here and there.

Fairy Door Quilted

Once the machine quilting was done, I started hand quilting the door. I think the hand quilting makes the door stand out from the surrounding vines and leaves. Toward the end, I started stitching along the border with my walking foot. Then another idea came to my head – alternate the border with machine and hand quilting and alternate the thread colour as well.

Fairy Door Quilted Pillow

This is the first time I also decided to bind my pillowcase. It’s a woodland fairy door, so what else would I use but a brown binding to go with the light mossy green border. The finished pillow now resides in my husband’s room. Hopefully he will not be subject to naughty fairy shenanigans!

Happy Sewing,
-Soma

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Purchase Union Jack Pattern

This is an old favourite of mine. In reality this quilt never gets put away. I wash it, dry it and then we use it again… and again. For those who are new here – since a couple of years ago when I started quilting, this is the first lap-size quilt I made and it was a present for my husband. It’s made entirely with paper pieced blocks, twenty of them. I love this photo of the Union Jack quilt hanging in front of the bookshelves.

Purchase Union Jack Pattern

I wanted sharp consistent corners, so I learned how to draw paper piecing patterns with this block and I got addicted to pattern making after that. Of all the patterns I have designed since then, the Union Jack quilt pattern is probably my most favourite. I was going to make the whole quilt with these blocks. Then after making ten blocks, I suddenly decided to break the monotonous set of blocks by adding couple of other combinations. I didn’t want to drift too far from the original though.

So I made the next five blocks by replacing the red with grey. I used the same blue fabric from the other block and I rearranged the colours a little. I didn’t touch the cream to keep some continuity.

For the last five blocks I replaced the blue with grey.

Purchase Union Jack Pattern

I used Kona Charcoal for the sashing and then used a very light grid pattern to quilt it. I pieced only the red and the blue from the quilt for the binding to keep it simple. This quilt has never been put away ever since I made it. When it’s not being used by us, it’s being used by the kitties even though they have their own mini version of this quilt. I also made a matching pillow. If you are interested, you can read about these other finishes on this blog post. As you can tell, I love the geometric pattern of this flag just a little too much, you might even call it an obsession! The Union Jack quilt pattern is available in my shop.

See you around!

-Soma

Magic Fairy Door Pillowcase

An Old Favourite