Counting down to Bloggers’ Quilt Festival, I’m featuring quilters from last fall all week long!  I hope you enjoy getting to know Julianna better ::

1.  When did you begin quilting?

I began quilting last year – in May when I bought a new sewing machine. Prior to that I wasn’t sewing almost at all, because my first sewing machine didn’t want to cooperate with me:)

2. Why do you quilt?

When I was pregnant I discovered on the internet lots of gorgeous fabrics – these fabrics wasn’t then available in Poland, so I started buying patchwork fabrics in US online shops. At first I thought that I will be using them just for sewing clothes for my daughter, but when I was looking for some help at Polish forum (while sewing a dress), I found photos of beautiful quilts and I just knew that I have to try sew something like this.

3.  What was your most recent fabric purchase?

My most recent fabric purchases (yes, that’s right – I’m addicted to fabrics:) were connected with re-organizing my stash. I noticed that I’ve got too little blues and yellows tonal fabrics and too little solids – so I simply bought them.

4. What is your favorite quilting tip?

My favorite quilting tip is very general: “think about sewing, when you sew”. When I think that I’m doing pretty well with some technique I usually make a simple mistakes, because my mind is filled with random thoughts about everything except sewing. So I try always to concentrate on sewing to avoid common mistakes.

5. What was your inspiration for your Quilt Festival quilt?

My inspiration for Quilt Festival quilt were snowdrops – I wanted to concentrate on snowdrops itself and make it main part of my quilt. I saw a lot of beautiful quilted works and I wanted to try such quilting.

6. Do you sew other things?

I sew also some clothes for my daughter – mainly summer skirts and dresses. Sometimes I sew toys and some other things for my daughter (like bed clothes). I sewed also a few bags for me.

7. Anything else we should know about you?

Because I’m a beginner all the time one thought gets back to me: so many things to sew, but so little time… This causes that I’ve got lots of ongoing projects and it takes me a while to finish my works (I prefer small projects: like mini quilts and pillows). I love the most the process of finding new ideas, sometimes I cannot sleep until I don’t think about all the details:)

My biggest dream is to take part in Quilt Show in USA (as a visitor). I started planning my trip to USA – maybe next year my dream will come true:)

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Beautiful!  I love your color choices!  Thank you for sharing Julianna!