Work In Progress – My Woven Quilt

I have chosen to enter my woven quilt into the virtual quilt festival because of a few reasons:

1) It took me four years to complete it 2) I love the color 3) It’s a technique you don’t see very often!

I hope you enjoy reading about this quilt! Since publishing this post, I did decide to remove the beading and I entered it into a quilt show. It was really fun seeing my work hanging up for everyone to view and people were amazed that it was really woven!

I also was a guest blogger for Quilting Gallery and I wrote: Woven Wonder – a Tutorial? if you are interested in reading more details as to how I completed this project.

I also hope you take some time (I think I’ve become obsessed with looking through the quilts) to see everyone else’s work…there is some Amazing talent out there!

– update 4/19/09

I HATE matching my corners when piecing a quilt. I absolutely HATE it. So, one day I had this brilliant idea (or so I thought at the time)…I would WEAVE a quilt…that way, I didn’t have to worry about my corners matching. I should add here that I had this brilliant idea in the beginning of 2005.

My first step was to dye really long pieces of fabric that I would have quilted together by Barb. I headed over to Diane’s basement, cut long pieces of fabric and dyed away. I had a lot of fun!

Barb decided to host Easter at her house that year and she was kind enough to let me try out he

r long arm quilting machine. Now THAT was a lot of fun! I think I quilted two of my panels together for this quilt. Barb did the rest of them. A year later, I finally pulled the quilted fabric out of the bag and cut strips out of them. I then bound each edge of the strips and started to weave. Once I had it together how I wanted it…trust

me, it took quite awhile and a little help from my hubby to have it square…I loosely stitched each intersection together so it would keep it’s shape while I was binding the outer edge. Now that the whole quilt was bound and put together I cute out my loosely stitched intersections

and realized that it just wasn’t going to stay together. Every time I pulled it out of the bag I spent an hour re-laying it out smoothly…hmmmm…how could I fix this? I sent it back to Barb and she quilted at each intersection. Doing this helped to keep the quilt in the square shape but kept it’s ‘woven’ quality.

I have started to embellish this quilt with beads several times. My latest plan was to embroider it with circles of beads…I’m now thinking I may not even do that. I might just take these beads off

as well, and use it as a quilt. This quilt is amazingly warm…it’s two quilts put together…AND it’s reversible…both sides are equally cool!I would love to hear your opinion about whether I should do the beading or not do the beading. In the end, I think it is easier and less time consuming to just suck it up and match my corners!