My Crafts Experiments

When I completed my borgello hearts quilt , it had taken so long that I forgot about the actual first ever quilt I made for Baby Aprorva, our friends Tulsi and Abhijaat's new born boy :) I wanted to gift them something hand made and this is what it turned out. This was something I just came up with in paint shop and was then quite easy to go ahead and stitch. Only troublesome part in it was making that elephant shape. I went ahead and drew it on one page and then cut the rest using sharp scissor. Used the applique technique to stitch it to the quilt and hand hemmed it to make sure the edges don't come out. Also hand hemmed the double folded fabric strip as a binding. Overall then I wasn't that satisfied with this quilt but now when I look back in perspective I am quite happy about how it turned out given this was my first ever quilt and I had to learn basic stuff through books and youtube videos. Started by designing this in paint. (And you will soon realize from my

I saw something similar first time while looking for quilt designs. It immediately made its place in my heart.. I was eager to make this even though I had never made any quilt before, had never done any kind of free motion or even walking foot quilting but the design was so catchy that I had to make it. While looking for how to go about this I couldn't find the pattern and the place where I found I didn't trust the site. So I got my laptop out and went back to my engineering roots :) Microsoft excel was my best buddy for many days as I put numbers 1 to 16 in each row and column by looking at the quilt from the picture. Then I adjusted column width for each column to make sure the numbers start to look like heart. Conditional programmed the colors for these 1 to 16 fabrics till I could feel ok with the color combination. Read a book on borgello quilting to realize I don't have to sit and stich rectangle by rectangle. Purchasing fabrics was interesting task too.. Af