Friday 1 February 2013

A little bit of Glimma

Glimma is Lotte Jansdotter's third fabric collection and I've been able to play with a couple of charm packs before the full yardage is released in April.

I had wanted to do a deconstructed Dresden Plate quilt for a while and felt this would be a good way to show the fabrics off.


Glimma also works very well with Lotte's previous lines -I have used a turquoise Bella crosshatch for a few of the petals as well as the binding.


I managed to get two Dresden wedges out of each 5" charm square.

And with the tiny scrap offcuts left either side of these wedges, I sewed them together in pairs and sort of did a random border with them.

Quilting is monofilament over the Dresdens and then a variegated on the background.

And the back?
Not difficult to show; it was so windy the two shots above were the best of a bad bunch.
The rest look something like this.


These are beautiful, soft, muted colours to work with and I shall definitely be  keeping my eye out for some of my favourites when they're available.

Linking up to Finish It Up Friday

21 comments:

  1. It's a gorgeous quilt and reminds me of the Love Me; Love Me Not game we played with daisies when little.

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  2. Just lovely! I really like the falling petals on this, great idea!

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  3. Isn't this fabulous!!! Love everything about it.

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  4. Oh dear... Looks like I'm really going to like this line... lol Great quilt, love the loose leaves!

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  5. Great idea, lovely fabrics, I always want to make the most of charm squares, no waste.

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  6. So pretty -- and I love the raspberry solid you used!

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  7. I love your deconstructed Dresden! How cool.

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  8. Oh this lovely, just love the way the Dresden wedges are falling all over the quilt, and I have to agree with 'Canadian Abroad', reminds me of the Daisy game 'Love me, Love me not'

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  9. So beautiful quilt, and some really nice photoes here.

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  10. Now I have never really liked Dresdens very much but I really like deconstructed ones!! It's a lovely quilt Alison.

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  11. All the comments I was going to leave made me sound like an excitable 1945 newscaster! Bloody good show though x

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  12. Wow! That is unusual - love it!

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  13. I love the way some of the petals/wedges escape from the plate!

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  14. Love it! What a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. Wonderful result - loved the fabric choices

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  16. I really like this quilt, Susan is right, it reminds me of daisies and the game of he loves me. I am so looking forward to these fabrics coming out, she is one of my favourite designers.

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  17. I love this. I'm probably going to shamelessly copy it. I hope you don't mind. I will credit you I promise. It won't happy straight away, but it will happen!!!

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  18. Hello friend :) Love how you made the dresdens modern! And the border is fab.

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  19. This is the best Dresden I have ever seen. I love how you turned the plates into flowers.

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