Quilting

I was running errands yesterday when I came home and saw emails from my friends in my mailbox about the Pantone Quilt Challange. I was completely clueless as I went through the emails that talked about my having won. Right after that I saw the wonderful email from Anne telling me that I not only won but got first place!!

I made the quilt for my little kitty cat and entered it in the Pantone Quilt Challenge to share with others and have a little fun. Two very nice ladies – Adrianne @ On The Windy Side and Anne @ Play Crafts arranged this fabulous event! That’s a lot of hard work, believe me! There were some seriously beautiful quilts entered in the challenge, and not for one moment had I thought that I had any chance of winning. I was already very happy with all the wonderful comments I received on that quilt.

Picture of the recipient of the quilt per request

I entered mine in the Finished minis category which was judged by Elizabeth Dackson @ Don’t Call Me Betsy. Now I get to have fun shopping at Fat Quarter Shop, one of my favorite online quilt stores. Thank you all so very much for everything, you have no idea how much this means to me. You have made me an extremely happy camper!!

Thank you!!
-Soma

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Spring Kites Quilt Pattern

Purchase Spring Kites Pattern

The bright colours and carefree nature of kites make me happy. If you could hold on to the tail of a kite and it carried you away, you would never know where you would end up landing. If you had two kites, you could bring your best friend along too! So I designed the Spring Kites quilt to reflect my day dreams of magical kites carrying us away to a distant fairytale adventure on a perfect Spring day.

Spring Kites Quilt Pattern

Once I started thinking about quilting, I could not put aside the idea of hand quilting the puffy clouds. I had never hand quilted before, so I watched a small Craftsy video, ordered my tools, and got started. On the first day I did about 2 inches of quilting in 2 hours, but I was hooked! The next day my flu got worse enough that I had to stay put. So I sat on the sofa and quilted the day away. It was very relaxing!! My stitches are not the smallest, but I think I achieved consistent stitch length – most of the time.

Spring Kites Quilt Pattern

Purchase Spring Kites Pattern

I really wanted to hand quilt the border, but I figured machine quilting that part would cause the hand quilting on the block to stand out more. Then I wrapped the whole mini up with a brown binding which anchors the quilt nicely without weighing it down. I now really love hand quilting and I love this little Spring quilt.

The 12″ Spring Kites quilt pattern is available in my shop. It’s an easy, fun and quick block to make. Although it’s a perfect Spring quilt pattern, I can see endless possibilities of playing with colours. I also included the kite tails embroidery template on the last page of the pattern file.

Happy Sewing,
-Soma

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Spring Kites – Quilt Pattern