Hello and welcome to the adventure! Today is the day! We’re off to great places, we’re off and away!
I’m Emily, a quilter of 12 years, wife of 9 months, and about to be a mother of one brand new baby girl! I’m starting this quilting blog to help encourage me to keep in touch with my creative side as I start my journey into first-time motherhood. Expect to see baby-related projects, quilting projects, and thread-painting projects as we move through the year.
My first project is baby-related. With less than a month to go until baby girl arrives (eek!) the nesting instinct is kicking in just a little bit! My baby shower was Dr Seuss themed, and my mom found this incredible Oh, The Places You’ll Go! themed fabric:
Each block has a quote from Dr Seuss
I love the fantastic characters!
I quilted it using a variety of different threads from Superior Threads, just highlighting and echoing my way around the images. The plan is to create a tactile baby book from these printed blocks – I’ll be posting an update on that soon(ish). Reading the quotes again as I quilted them was really fun – Oh, The Places You’ll Go! is one of my absolute favourite Dr Seuss books, so it was a complete delight to mix it with quilting.
This was a fabulous mini-project to get me started, and I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to actually quilt in my home. For the longest time I haven’t had the space or equipment to quilt at home, but I finally got a frame, machine, and some thread together, and it has been so rewarding to see that I can start quilting again!
The beautiful thing about having a table-top frame that packs away easily is that I can assemble the frame in minutes, and start or continue a project for however long I have, be that 10 minutes, or two hours. Right now the only place that the frame will fit is on my dining room table, which gets used quite a bit for other things, so it’s great that I can just lift the poles out of the side-arms and put them away in a corner until the space is available again.
With one project done, and more on the way, I sure am excited about the places I’ll go with my quilting frame!
Emily Milne 