Tilkunviilaajan tilkkutyöt vuonna 2016


2016

Tilkkupeitot

Ethän minua unhoita -tilkkupeitto 

Vetoketjupussukat 


Tilkkulaukut 

Comments

Post a Comment

Most popular this week

21 easy quilting ideas for patchwork surfaces – from straight stitch to free motion

Image
When you finish a patchwork surface, it may feel overwhelming to come up with a suitable quilting pattern. How to quilt it so that it does credit to the patchwork? This post is for confident beginners and intermediate quilters who enjoy making small projects like quilted bags, zipper bags, or mini quilts, and who want practical ideas for quilting them. This post includes:  3 interesting tips before you start quilting 9 ways to quilt using only a straight stitch 6 patterns with spirals, arcs and curves 6 easy free-motion quilting patterns  Over the years, I’ve tried many different quilting patterns on bag and pouch surfaces. My go-to patterns are very easy and do not require free-motion quilting.  In this post, I’m sharing 21 easy and proven ways to quilt a patchwork surface, ranging from very simple straight-line quilting to more decorative free-motion patterns. These ideas work especially well for small projects. I’ll share photos of my actual works, so you can se...
Read more

First make of the year: Quiddity zipper bag

Image
If you’ve been following my work for a while, you’ll know that I like to share my own quilted makes in Tilkunviilaaja’s Instagram. It’s a pleasure to share more details of their stories here as well. The most recent finish is a zipper bag which I named Quiddity (or Olemus in Finnish). It is also the first zipper pouch that I’ve sewn this year. A milestone! I put together the surfaces quickly, to have a project for an upcoming quilting day with friends whom I first got to know in social media – through their blogs or Instagram accounts. And because I wanted a quick make, I just took whatever fabrics that I found on or at arm’s length from my sewing table and made “scrap-in-a-box” squares. The squares end up being of different sizes, but I trim them so that several of them are of the same width or length. Then they can be sewn together as columns (or as rows), to make a surface that is of suitable size for a zipper bag. I’ll have to share an image of another project to show you...
Read more

Why value contrast matters more than you think in quilting

Image
What is most important in quilting? Is it the design, the fabrics, straight/curved/matching seams? Or is it most important that one’s quilt looks unique – or just like the model in the pattern? All of the above may be important to you, but when you get the basics right in quilt construction, one more thing is key. It is important to have proper value contrast in your quilt. What makes a quilt work visually? Your quilt colours will look better when you consider value contrast before you think whether your fabrics match. I’ve learned this from my quilting idol Timna Tarr: ”Value does the work, colour gets the credit”. If there is only one thing to remember, it is this: value contrast determines whether a pattern in a quilt or quilt block can be seen at all. When colour isn't enough When I first started quilting, I did not understand the importance of value contrast. I had carefully planned a design and purchased fabrics that matched the colours of the ...
Read more