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December 19, 2020

I Spy a Couple of Baby Quilts from Quilt Art by Olena Pugachova

I fell in love with the idea of "I-spy" (or "eye-spy"?) quilts several years ago, but my daughters were two big for this kind of games by the time, so I just admired the various interpretations on Pinterest. Now I have two little nieces (on different sides of the family), and I just had to make this play-quilts for both of them.

The problem was that I don't normally use novelty fabrics in my quilt art, but I needed quite a lot of them to make the idea work. So, I rounded up whatever remnants I had from previous ...

added by Lena Pugacheva 3 years, 11 months ago. under baby quilt , traditional block quilt , walking foot quilting

April 24, 2020

Little Sailor from Quilt Art by Olena Pugachova

While the Mad Tea Party is gathering momentum in the background, I'd like to share another quilt that was recently completed, but hasn't made an appearance on the blog yet.

I made it for my nephew's seventh birthday and it features a layer cake of the Lake Life collection by Anne Rowan for Wilmington Prints. It has fun boat- and fishing-themed prints, which I didn't want to cut much, so I went for very simple HST blocks, then cut about half of them horizontally and vertically to get smaller HST and solid blocks. I mixed up ...

added by Lena Pugacheva 4 years, 7 months ago. under bed quilt , traditional block quilt , walking foot quilting

March 27, 2020

Floating Squares from Quilt Art by Olena Pugachova

It's been a long time since I updated the blog as I find Instagram more immediate and less time-consuming (if you are there, I'm @lena.pugachova, please have a look, say hi and follow to see what's going on). However, sometimes I feel the pics are not enough and I want to tell at least something of the story.

I rarely make large bed quilts and I always find the process daunting, especially quilting them on my little Janome. In this case I had the additional complication of very limited time. I had planned it for long ...

added by Lena Pugacheva 4 years, 8 months ago. under bed quilt , modern quilt , traditional block quilt , walking foot quilting

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