Sunburnt Quilts

Quilts, Patchwork & Embroidery

Lots of Swirls.

I can’t lay claim to this quilt. It was made by a lovely young lady who has only recently started quilting. I did help with the pattern and the fabric but all the hard work was hers. There is only the binding to be done. I think it looks stunning and hope there are more […]




A Good Week.

It seems to have been a busy week, but that’s fine. I have manged to achieve most of the things I had planned. I have made a good start on the needleturn for the Butterfly Garden quilt. I have nearly completed cutting out my beautiful Leesa Chandler fabric – Under The Australian Sun. And to […]




Colour favourites.

I can’t help it. I really do like red, white and blue. I enjoyed buying little bits of fabric on my travels as it is pretty easy to match up these colours. It’s a great quilt for all those single fat quarters that are bought just because they look lovely and are not for any […]




Roadwork and Blossom.

Strange combination – roadwork and blossom. Roadwork first. I started the quilt using the Little Hot Rod fabric from South Seas Imports. Like many fabric companies they have patterns for many of their ranges. This was the one I used to start the quilt – here. It was very quick to put together as all […]




Planning For The Week Ahead.

Lots of preparation needs to be done this week for a variety of projects to be started or continued. I have reached the point with my Butterfly Garden blocks, (Leanne’s House), where all the embroidery is done but not the applique. I did start off by doing both the embroidery and the needleturn on each […]




Paths and Curves

Another early effort with raw edge applique was this variation of drunkards path. Doing it as raw edge applique made it quick to finish. The idea then was to machine wash and tumble dry the quilt so the raw edges would become fluffy. Maybe it is time for me to do that. I also tried […]




Sunshine.

The title of this post ends up being relevant in two ways today. The first way relates to photography. I haveĀ  some larger quilts and find them very difficult to manage when wanting to photograph them. Yesterday I noticed the sunshine streaming in the bedroom window and really showing up the quilting on this quilt. […]




Bright Birds.

Another lot of binding done and another quilt finished! This quilt started out from a selection of fat quarters that I had collected. It meant that the quilt couldn’t grow too big and would just be a wall hanging size. That was fine. I fussy cut the birds and then simply added mix and match […]




Red and White and Green.

Quilting done. Binding done. Always great to achieve a finish. This pattern, Whirlgigs, has been around at various blog sites for a while now. I started working on this one last year and managed to finish the top, but then it joined a few others in the pile waiting to be sandwiched for quilting. It […]




Hearts.

There are lots of lovely quilts around using a 9 patch design with hearts or stars. I was inspired to do one of my own using scraps collected from other quilts I had made. The borders were from fat quarters collected in my stash. The quilting is a gentle meandering pattern.




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