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Hi all,

Welcome to 13 Woodhouse Road...

If you're coming here for the first time, via Sew Mama Sew, let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I'm Shruti, a 34 year old SAHM to a wonderful 6 year old son - Aadi. I live in India with my husband and my wonderful son.

I studied to be an architect. I was pretty good at it, considering that I finished 16 projects in 3 years before I got married and shifted to a new town altogether...

I started quilting when I took a break from my job following a bout of Chikungunya. And then I just fell in love, all over again! There's just no going back to architecture now that I am here!




I had not touched a sewing machine before January 2010, and I believe I have come a long way from there  till today...

If you want to compare, here are a few projects that I have done

The Lemon Quilt - I made this using scraps from my mother's dresses and some cheap cotton. This was my first FMQ project. I used old curtains as batting thinking it was awesomely intelligent to 'up'cycle them, but when my fingers went numb for 8 days, I realized it was a bad idea.

Or this quilt, which has a lot of things that can be termed "wrong", but I adore it for the memories associated with it!

And there is this one... This is special, because this is how I met my Best Blogging Friend! Emily! :) She was the recipient of this quilt!

Or this - Gardens of India - my first commercial pattern!

Or Paalvi - my favorite one! This is where the transition from an amateur quilter to a more confident one began...

How can I forget to mention the one I made for my little one - the Dr. Suess Quilt!

Or the one I made for my big boy - my husband - the Hex-ed Quilt

And nothing else can beat my best work so far! The Portrait Quilt that I made for my Husband and his family to celebrate 100 years of the family business - a portrait of the founder - his great-grandfather - Dada Ajoba!

Apart from making quilts, I am also the founder President of the India Modern Quilt Guild.
We are a wonderful group of women who have fought a lot of negative criticism and survived... We're going strong and are getting stronger!

Whatever the reason you're here, I am glad that you are! :)
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Bloggers Quilt Festival Entry

Many of you must have seen this quilt before. It is inspired by Fresh Lemons' Winter Rainbow Quilt. Only, I had wanted to make a yellow quilt... I named this one The Lemon Quilt because of its color, of course, but also because it was inspired by her quilt.

This was only my third attempt at a quilt. The earlier ones were The Sunny Orange Quilt and The total disaster of The Paintbox Quilt. I was scared to do so much of piecing. But decided since it was to be a gift for my mom, what the heck!!

Then began the tiresome act of cutting the pieces. I did not have a cutting mat and a rotary cutter at the time, and had to cut all those pieces precisely by a scissors. I did the cutting for 3 days. By this time, my patience was already wearing off... But I decided to stick to it. Just 1-2 hours a day, I promised myself... On the 3rd day, as I looked at the pile of fabric I had cut, I really was proud of myself.

The piecing took just a day... It was a Sunday, and my dear husband and my son decided to sleep in till noon! I got all my piecing done before either of them woke up!!!

Then came the absolutely overwhelming part of quilting it... I had done free motion quilting before, but only on a handkerchief size block. Quilting this 48" x 72" beauty was going to be difficult... (I thought it would be a little bit difficult, never imagining what was in store for me) After 2 days of patient quilting, 3 fingers of my right hand had gone numb!!!

This is my favorite quilt not just because of the way it looks but also because of all the efforts that went into the making of this one!

I'm so proud to present it before you all as a part of the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Its the first time I'm entering it, and I'm sure your comments will help me go further... For a detailed list of all my projects please visit my old blog here

Thank you all!!!