Easter Inspired Sewing

Hello Everyone!

I really like the pastel colours of Easter. This year I have made a wallhanging using the pattern and tutorial from the blog Inspired by Fabric.

Tulip Time by Inspired by Fabric

I wanted to make something that I can use for Easter and also for spring since I live in the southern hemisphere. I made this piece using scraps from my ever-growing stash of cotton fabrics. It is a lot of fun just to dig through my fabrics and decide what to use for a new project. Of course fabric shopping is fun, but it is very satisfying to find new combinations and make a new project from fabrics that I already have.

There are lots of half square triangles in this project, which makes it very beginner friendly. I have used three different small print pink colours and a yellow stripe for tulips and pinwheels. For leaves and stems, I used two green colours, one small print and one solid. The background is scraps of tone on tone white prints and for binding I used one of the pink colours.

I quilted the wall hanging with straight lines in different directions because it is easy to do and it looks good.

I also like to put some effort into making a quilt label, to make the project my own. On the back of this quilt I used my sewing machine for my initials and year and then I appliquéd an egg shape next to the text. I really enjoy experimenting with quilt labels so much, I could probably do a blog post on that topic alone.

Quilt label

Are you sewing anything for Easter this year? If you would like more inspiration you can have a look here and here. Until next time, happy sewing and take care!

Annika

Happy Easter

20160316_032134139_iOSIt is almost Easter and I made some eggs earlier this week for my Easter basket that I made about a month ago, the tutorial is on my tutorials page.
I used a pattern I stumbled across while I was doing some blog reading last week. The pattern is by Retromama and the link to the pattern is here.
Have you done any Easter crafting this week?

The rest of the sewing I have done this week is working on a new pattern that I will share with you later.

Happy Easter and don’t eat to much chocolate. Take care!

Annika