Thursday, 17 March 2011

Photos of my cathedral window quilt - advice needed

Hello strangers! I've seen some lovely work from you all on your blogs recently, I thought Id contribute and show you some of my latest buys and makes.



First up, I bought this little stash recently, I was going to make the entire quilt from these fabrics but I'm not sure it would have been interesting enough, so I decided to choose just a few and be good and use up my scraps, it turns out its an ideal scrapbusting project as I only have a few scraps left. Since I started making it back in January, I have seen these cathedral window quilts crop up all over blogland, so im sure your probably sick of seein them by now. Here is the finished quilt:



Now heres where I need some advice. Do you think I need to use some buttons to hide my less then perfect points?



My husband also thinks it needs binding, what do you think?



Iv not seen any with binding on but I think it might be a bit too much, what do you think? Im pretty pleased with the overall result, it uses up and AWFUL lot of fabric though!, but by the time I was on my last row, I think I got the hang of those pesky points.



Here is a photo of how the quilting on the back came out, I thought I'd include it as I havnt seen many pictures of the back and I really like the design its made:



Now thats completed I need to get my teeth into something new, so I borrowed these books from my local library:



I havnt had the chance to look at them yet but I'm looking forward to getting inspired.


xxx

8 comments:

  1. I love the scale of your blocks! Did you use a tutorial from the web?

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  2. I love your quilt :) my friend did one a few months ago and I would love to do one but I need time to do it 1st lol.
    I think it would be ok without binding on it and I love the back :)

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  3. My goodness that quilt is amazing!

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  4. That is stunning! I really need to look into making one of these. Well done you.

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  5. I think it looks beautiful. what a great job. I can see his point as I think it would look lovely with binding too, but maybe a white on white so as to continue the theme and not distract from the main piece? Either way it is quite lovely x

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  6. That is lovely Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    If I were to add a binding, I would add a small white border first and then use a colourful stripy binding - like seaside rock or possibly spotty.

    and don't worry about the points not matching - only you can see it, if you asked anyone else they would only see how fab the finished quilt is!

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  7. My mouth formed a silent O when I saw this stupendous quilt. One day I will learn to do this. One. Day. But for now I'll admire yours. Beautiful.

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  8. This quilt is gorgeous! Thanks for the inspiration!

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