This will be for a young friend of ours. I started cutting out the pieces many months ago after discussion with her about the design. We went for a multi pattern block, not just two fabrics in each as I'd done on my last one. I have to find time for it between other quilts. My style seems to be to get lots of new works started. Love that feeling, cutting into a new set of colours and shapes... (Of course lots of you out there will recognise this phenomenon as being easily bored and needing constant thrills.)
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I have a new penfriend, in the old parlance, to whom I have been sending photos of the quilts I've been making using the never-ending-strip technique. It comes by many other names, and Kay Koeper Sorensen's tutorials (first two links) for them are below so why don't you try one and send Kay a photo of the result? Perhaps, like me, you won't be able to stop at one either! (She named my quilt above and I've decided to use it.)
http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/2011/04/sunrise-sunset-quilt-tutorial.html http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/2011/04/potato-chip-quilt-what-ifs-and.html http://pieceful-moments.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/continuous-strip-quilt. htmlhttp://www.quiltingboard.com/tutorials-f10/super-fast-jelly-roll-quilt-t44258.html http://www.quiltersqtrs.com/free_bom_downloads/FREE%20Pattern%20Easiest%20Ever%20Jelly%20Roll%20Throw%20Pattern.pdf This week I finally managed to complete the top of this quilt. Now it is time to quilt it, which will be done by my very clever friend Deborah on her Gammill. I have used a winding ways/wheel of mystery pattern to surround an oriental panel and then gone nuts in the border. Next time I think I would do it differently. I'll show you that if there ever is a next time.
So lovely to have a room with a view, space, sunshine, access to the outdoors. We are both enjoying it a lot. Can do my colour matching in here and can spread out the quilt front to make decisions about border design. Going full tilt now to get it done. It has been good to step into my glass studio, put on the new leather apron, (which protects my chest and lap from flying hot glass) and choose some glass to use. I tend to work on themes. Mostly recently it has involved red and black and then some more red. Now I'm on the North African/middle Eastern blues and turquoises and the peacock theme. Soon I will pull the plug, as it were, to make more pieces for the upcoming local Summer Sunset Markets in Queanbeyan, Australia. I'll be exhibiting there on the 4th November and the 2nd of December. Come and visit me if you can. We had quite a lot of rain this winter and early spring so my little courtyard is growing well. Now that the weather has warmed up, all the leaves are looking tired and pale and I will have to do regular watering to keep it lush.
Recently a close friend's daughter turned 21 and I promised to make a quilt for her. I used lots of fairy frost fabrics which I recently bought in bundles, along with a charming Japanese fabric. Now being quilted, I will bind it on the weekend and it will be ready for the giving ceremony soon after.
I have come home with new energy and now it is time to really get going on my group theme 24" piece, topic "Water". Using my new technique, thanks to the Mariya Waters class I took at the Remarkable Symposium, my stabiliser is gridded up and now fused to the back of all my coloured fabrics. Today I get to start trimming and snipping and glueing it all together. Lots of pieces, lots of work to do. Check back later for progress!
Sunrise from our apartment in Queenstown. Magic place, with views of mountains, lake and trees. At every time of day, the light changes and the shadows on the mountains shift. Hundreds of us were here for the Remarkable Symposium. Great classes, lectures, entertaining gala dinner at the top of the hill. Enjoyed it all. On our first wake-up, the snow was down very low and it was very chilly. It soon warmed up though.
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