Blue Kaffe Fassett.
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have working on this quilt off and on for a few weeks now. The piecing was straight forward – a four patch, patterned white between blocks and single patch corner stones.
I love the colours. Blue and white always looks fresh.
For the centre part of the quilt I did straight line cross hatching. Thankfully easy to do with small blocks.
I added a narrow border of white and then a wider border of one of the florals.
I did some swirls in the narrow white border and then some free motion flowers in the wider border.
It has a binding in a patterned purple.
I decided to continue the bright and blue theme in the backing too!
A Quilt From A Class.
Posted on October 25, 2010 | Comments Off on A Quilt From A Class.
This quilt was made in a class with Jennifer Knol. A few friends attended the class together at Candleberry Country. Natalie (Candleberry Country) put together a kit for each of us so we could have a wide range of fabrics.
All the blocks are made from half square triangles then the blocks are arranged to create a diamond pattern.
I used a floral backing and had it quilted with a flowing loop pattern.
Binding was done using the same fabric as the backing.
A Little Bit of Aus.
Posted on October 24, 2010 | Comments Off on A Little Bit of Aus.
Just adding a little bit of Australiana to my post today.This koala is made from a pattern by Maxine Gallagher. There was a fair bit of work involved in this one, especially with the eyelids, fingers and toes.
No, he doesn’t live in this lemon tree, but the sun was in the right spot at that time.
Oranges and Lemons….
Posted on October 22, 2010 | 14 Comments
Okay, really just orange – the colour. This is the colour Robyn at Daisy Quilts has chosen for Colourful Fridays this week. Go over and check it out.
Originally I thought it was going to be quite difficult to find anything around my home for this colour, but I was pleasantly surprised!
This cute little fellow sits on my work desk.
Fabric from a quilt I am working on.
Fabric for a quilt in the near future.
Vases waiting for orange flowers.
A little pot that I think may never see dirt and a real plant – maybe some sewing goodies instead.
Essential sewing tools.
And somewhere to store them.
And last of all, some decorative ribbon.
So it turns out that I am more orange than I thought!
Just Binding.
Posted on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Nearly there. Just finishing the binding!
Eye ( I ) Spy.
Posted on October 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Eye ( I ) Spy.
I Spy quilts are lots of fun. I like the idea of collecting lots of fun fabrics to use in them.
Quite often they are fabrics that you cannot find a use for elsewhere but still want to collect. And sometimes they are left from other quilts you have made.
I decided to make mine as busy as possible so it could be used for the I Spy game.
Hardly any need to colour match.
I used the same fabric for the back and the binding and simple stitch in the ditch straight quilting.
Bow Tie.
Posted on October 19, 2010 | Comments Off on Bow Tie.
I really like the sharing of ideas in all quilting groups and this quilt is one example of that. Our DIL attended a quilting class with some friends when she was in USA. She learnt the technique of making the 3D bow ties. When she was back here in Aus she was able to teach me. Some of my friends saw this quilt and liked it, so I was able to teach them the technique too. And I am sure it has been passed on again.
There are several different layouts for this pattern and I would like to make another one soon.
Seeing Stars.
Posted on October 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Seeing Stars.
I am trying to make 24 of these. Still not at the half way mark !
Green Friday.
Posted on October 15, 2010 | 9 Comments
I couldn’t resist any longer. I have been following the Colourful Friday posts for a while now on Fairchild Street and Daisy Quilts, and now I have decided to join in. Please check in at Daisy Quilts for the other participants and see the green they have found.
At the moment it is still raining, so the garden will stay green with all the beautiful new growth.
Here are some other green goodies.
Have a lovely weekend!
Shared Blocks.
Posted on October 14, 2010 | Comments Off on Shared Blocks.
Many patchwork and quilting groups make friendship blocks and mine is no exception. Our group had to select the block we prefered, provide the pattern and give and indication of the colour preference. Over time all the blocks are completed and returned to the person who chose the block.
I selected a signature block and requested interesting browns.
The only tricky part afterwards was actually putting them into a quilt because they all varied so much in size. In the end it was suggested that I offset them so that the size difference wasn’t too obvious.
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