A Bake Shop Quilt.
Last year in July there was a quilt in Moda Bake Shop that caught my eye. It used half square triangles of Winter Song and was made by Jodi of Simply this that and the other. The quilt used turnovers. I wasn’t able to get turnovers but did find a couple of charm packs and […]
Animals.
The film”How To Make An American Quilt”, (1995), led to a visit to Australia by Patty McCormick. She was the advisor for the quilts in the film. Patty conducted several workshops and I was able to attend one of them at Pakenham’s Sewing Connection. Patty displayed her quilts and gave talks on the making of […]
Stars and Stripes.
I have always enjoyed the Thimbleberries designs – fabrics, patterns and books. I chose one of their designs for an early quilt making effort. It involved a small amount of applique around the stars and then some simple piecing. Sometimes I enjoy making the smaller quilts just because they come together so quickly. And then […]
Houses.
This post has a mixture of patchwork and embroidery with a house theme. The quilt with houses and trees was another class at Primarily Patchwork many years ago. I started the quilt there and then finished it at my LQS in Pakenham. Colourful and simple. I have also completed several cross stitches with a house […]
Autumn Leaves.
A long time back I found a stall at the Gembrook market where a lady was selling fabrics she had dyed herself. I really liked the colours and put the fabric aside while I waited to find a quilt pattern I thought suitable. I later found a quilt in the Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine […]
Cabins in the Forest.
This quilt has an interesting combination of just a few blocks. It has a house block that is split with a log cabin and it has a tree block also split with a log cabin. It then has flying geese in the border. The house blocks are supposed to be placed in the centre and […]
Making Progress.
I have had some time at the sewing machine over the last weeks and have made good progress on two quilts. The dotty quilt top is together and has had a thin white border added. I am going to add an orange border as well to frame it, then will have to decide how to […]
Post and Rail.
Sometimes there are fabrics you just want to play with and end up using a simple pattern to show them off. I liked the colours and chose a basic post and rail pattern. It ended up being a small lap sized quilt. The quilting was an overall butterfly pattern. Here’s a better look at the […]
Red, White and Blue.
I like a lot of red, white and blue so it is not surprising to see many of my quilts using these colours. The only difference in this quilt is that I have used cream instead of white. It is made using several charm packs from an old Moda range named Coming Home. I have […]
Red Biscuit.
In the days before I had discovered stitcheries, I saw a quilt made up in a shop. It was a pattern from Leanne Beasley of Leanne’s House. It was made with red and biscuit coloured fabrics and had stitcheries inside the squares. At the time I didn’t appreciate the stitcheries and only wanted to make […]
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