At The Machine
Posted on October 13, 2010 | Comments Off on At The Machine
Steady rain for most of the day here so a good excuse to stay in. I used my time to start quilting this quilt made with Kaffe Fassett fabric. Just using cross hatching. Sounds simple but lots of concentration needed to keep those lines straight.
Lots of Swirls.
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
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 to come.
It was professionally quilted by Sue Foster of Sue’s Stitches, Lang Lang. The swirls look great on this fabric. The fabric is Califon by Mark Lipinski.
A Good Week.
Posted on October 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
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 coincide nicely with that work, I had my first visit to her shop – Chandler’s Cottage. The fabrics were superb and the quilts made up with them were just so beautiful!! You have to visit in person as photos do not do justice to the beautiful work.
I pieced together the top for the road quilt earlier in the week and yesterday was able to piece the back together as well.
I was able to use left over fat quarters of Maypole to make another quilt back. It does look very busy!
It will be going on the back of these dresden plates.
So I suppose my plan for the next week will have to be sandwiching some quilts and then quilting them.
I also had a lovely day making cards here.
Hope everyone has a great week.
Colour favourites.
Posted on October 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
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 particular plan. It uses lots of squares and half square triangles and can be as scrappy or as organised as you like.
I chose to separate the reds and blues with each star, but still made them scrappy.
An overall pattern was used in the quilting.
I really love the white stitching on the back of the quilt.
Roadwork and Blossom.
Posted on October 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
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 the panels are printed and only straight seams required. I wanted to lengthen the quilt so at first I added a red strip. But it made the blue panels look disjointed.
So I simply undid the seams and swapped the top and bottom pieces over.
I think it looks better like this. Now to decide if there should be an outside border and what to use if I do. This is one of the many reasons I like digital cameras – because you can take pics and compare different settings for your quilts.
Now for blossom. Like many others I am enjoying our Spring and although my garden does not have a lot in it, there are still lovely things happening.
Just a little sample.
Silk doll.
Posted on October 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Silk doll.
A while back I attended a doll symposium in Newcastle and one of the presenters was Patti Culea. This doll was made in her class.
We had to dye our fabric first before sewing the doll. We also dyed the fabric for the dress. Sewing the body of the doll was difficult because the silk moved around a lot and frayed very easily. Patti was an excellent instructor and most people completed a dressed doll by the end of the day’s class.
Planning For The Week Ahead.
Posted on October 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
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 block and completed three that way.
Then I decided to change the way I was working and only did the embroidery. Now I need to cut out all the pieces for the applique so that I can finish the remaining six blocks. There is still a lot of work to do!
I need to piece these fabrics into a backing for a dresden plate quilt.
These beautiful Leesa Chandler fabrics, Under The Australian Sun, will be cut out ready to sew.
And these fabrics will be sewn into a fun play quilt.
Hopefully a busy and productive week ahead.
Paths and Curves
Posted on October 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
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 quilting this myself by following the curves. It makes me realise what progress I have made with my quilting skills and what a difference my new machine makes.
Sunshine.
Posted on September 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
The title of this post ends up being relevant in two ways today.
The first way relates to photography. I have 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.
I realised I was better off leaving the quilt on the bed and photographing it there while the light was so good.
The second connection with the title is that the fabric is Moda Sunshine.
The quilt ended up being king sized and was made using several jelly rolls and a dozen charm packs.
I had it professionally quilted with the baptist fan pattern. I really like the way it creates texture and movement in the quilt.
The pattern was simple and gave a wonderful scrappy look, but when it is set en pointe it creates a great look with the quilting.
Obviously, I am very happy with the end result.
Bright Birds.
Posted on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
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 borders around them. I did straight line quilting from edge to edge and also around each framed bird. I like the bright, cheeriness of the quilt. In hindsight, the only thing I would maybe change is that I would add in some plain white around the birds so it was not as busy. But now that it is finished it will stay as it is.
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