I was very lucky to win some votes in the Viewers Choice, thank you to everyone who gave me more fabric! quilting! all of which I will make good use of. In fact, the next quilt design is sizzling round my head now... all these lovely tropical colours, I know just the thing, a commissioned quilt for a close friend.
I shall start where I left off, a year ago (where did it go?) going to the Quilters Retreat. This year I am looking forward to our group's Retreat at Lake Crackenback. But that is over a month away. The photo above is of my daughter's quilt, finally finished, quilted and hung at the Queanbeyan Quilters Exhibition last weekend. You can see it in its early stages in a past post. I use the title "fever" advisedly; I started and finished making, binding, labelling and adding hanging strips to eleven quilts, two small red and white pieces and constructed a rusty fabric and lace challenge tea cosy before this Exhibition. That has kept me very busy.
I was very lucky to win some votes in the Viewers Choice, thank you to everyone who gave me more fabric! quilting! all of which I will make good use of. In fact, the next quilt design is sizzling round my head now... all these lovely tropical colours, I know just the thing, a commissioned quilt for a close friend.
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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.)
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 A few of us in my quilting group have been fascinated with the One Block Wonder technique and this is my recently completed top. The feature fabric had enough variety to yield widely differing hexagons and this is what I did with them.
It is very interesting to see what others do with the technique... http://www.quiltingboard.com/blogs/one-block-wonder-obw-b2272.html http://www.quiltingboard.com/blogs/one-block-wonder-page-2-b8771.html |