I often participate in the annual Kyogle Quiltathon, held in August each year. At last year's Quiltathon, I inherited a UFO of 9-patch squares which I took to finishing. The quilt is now done, I am really happy to have helped finish a project and I hope I did some justice as to what the original pathworker was planning. I think the colours are lovely and I'm pleased with the finished quilt, which will be donated to Quilts4Kids.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Friday, April 10, 2020
Quits 108 A & B
I had bought some Easter-themed fabric a few years ago, but never made something in time for Easter (similar to my Halloween-fabric experience). But this year, prompted by working from home, I got my act together in time and made two Easter table runners. One for our house, and one for Mum. My one has the yellow chicken fabric as the outer border, and Mum's the green bunny fabric.
Pattern is based on Connie Kresin's Roasted Coffee table runner https://conniekresin.com/roasted-coffee-table-runner-tutorial/
Pattern is based on Connie Kresin's Roasted Coffee table runner https://conniekresin.com/roasted-coffee-table-runner-tutorial/
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Quilt 107 - Mexican Fiesta
I made this quilt for my friend Lauren who got married in March. She and her now husband like Mexican food, and she is also a very colourful girl. I saw a shot of this quilt on Aunt Em's quilt blog (https://www.auntemsquilts.com/) and loved it. The colour scheme is different to what I usually work with so it pushed my creative boundaries. The quilt was a huge hit so I'm really pleased about that.
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Quilt 106 - Halloween
I bought some Halloween fabrics on sale at Spotlight years ago. I then meant to make a table runner each successive year but always remembered too late for Halloween. But in 2019 I finally did it, and got my table runner made in time to put out for Halloween.
Quilt 105 - Circle pizzazz
My sister went to Japan a few years ago, and brought me back a range of beautiful Japanese fabrics. I made this quilt from them, supplemented by a few extra fabrics sourced from Spotlight. The pattern is from a book called 'Circle Pizzazz' by Judy Sisneros.
Quilt 104 - Tumbleweeds
This quilt was a long time in the making, as I sewed the individual blocks together as placeholders on my machine between sewing other projects. I aimed to pick fabrics with a calming tone and I'm really happy with the result. The quilting pattern is called 'Baptist Fans'. The pattern design is 'Sharing Thimbles' by Edyta Sitar, from her book Friendship Strips & Scraps.
Quilt 103 - Initial quilt
In my quilt group, when you reach a milestone birthday the other members make blocks with your initial embroidered on it. You then get the blocks and decide what you want to make them into (unless it is an 'advanced' milestone birthday, and then the quilt group will make you a quilt out of them). For my 40th, I received a set of beautiful initial blocks, and I have made this lap quilt with them.
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