I have a narrow wall beside my refrigerator, where my Tulip Time quilt has been hanging for the past couple of years. I decided that it was time for a change, so I made my Sardine Soirée wall quilt to replace it. I'm really quite pleased with how it turned out. It's super bright and colourful and each sardine has it's own personality. I used all sorts of Tula Pink fabrics for the sardine bodies and coordinated their heads and tails with solid fabrics. I machine appliqued them to the background low volume dotty prints with black aurifil cotton thread. I think that the black gives them a good outline. Each fish has been embellished with ric-rac, buttons, sequins, beads, lace and one fish even has eye-lashes! I was going to add more "bling" but the fabrics are so great that I decided to show (just a little bit of) restraint. I love this long skinny quilt and even made a label for it straight away. I've decided that I'd better start labelling my quilts as soon as I finish them, otherwise, it doesn't seem to happen. I'm going to make another sardine project and already have the idea working itself out in my mind. Sardine's are misunderstood and I think I'm going to make all sorts of sardine-y things. Who knows, if there's any interest, I might even create a pattern for these quirky little fellows.
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Oh I love when I get to tell you about something that's been in the works for a long time. Keeping secrets from you is hard, ya know. Last summer, the good folks at American Patchwork & Quilting magazine chose me to be one of the contributors in their newest special edition quilt magazine featuring nothing but mini quilts! I've hardly been able to wait to get my copy and see all the quilt projects in this jam packed issue. The wait is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you know me at all....you know how much I adore little quilts and small blocks!! No surprise...I jumped at the chance! Here's my teeny little table runner, called Little Bits. It was such fun to piece from scraps. There are 29 projects in the Make It Mini book, so you're sure to find a bunch that appeal to you. The newsstand date is March 1st, so be sure to pick one up at your local quilt shop or favorite newsstand. I am honored that my quilt was among those chosen for the cover. It's always a thrill. Spread the word!
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There’s a Matching Pillow, Too! Whimsical cats and birds take center stage in this beautiful quilt. Soft colors against white give the quilt a dreamy quality. Stronger colors will be wonderful, too, so go ahead and play with fabrics to create your own version. A pattern for the stuffed cats can be found here. Two …
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This little Valentine project is easy and quick. It uses just one charm pack, or a small bundle of scraps from your stash, and 1/2 yard of background fabric. I resolved to use as much fabric from my stash as possible this year, so I'm off on the right foot. 22" x 22" My sewing room was a disaster after Christmas! Not only had it been used as gift wrapping central, but I still hadn't put away the leftover fabrics and other bits and pieces from my last sewing project. I was stuck with no choice but to clean up and organize things before moving on to making new messes. Every now and then the organizing process reveals surprises. While sorting the fabrics in my drawer of reds and pinks, I rediscovered a Valentine charm square packet tucked away and forgotten. It had been one of those gifts of fabric that I would never have chosen for myself. I love red, but something about this fabric had just never appealed to me. The pack of five inch squares had been taking up drawer space for seven or eight years, and it was well past time to do something with it. I decided to take a second look before tossing it in the give away pile. It was much nicer than I had remembered. Maybe I could use it. After all, I had resolved to use more of my stash this year instead of buying new fabrics, and before we can blink Valentine's Day will be here. Wheels in my head began to turn. If I were to make a pattern at all for this holiday it would have to be soon - like now. I needed something fast. A charm pack would be just the right size for a quick project. Everything else I needed just happened to be on hand, too. Perfect! With high temperatures hovering around 10 degrees and the prairie wind blowing and blustering, it was too darn cold to go out for new fabrics, anyway! I found a photo of a traditional heart block that would stitch up into a quick little table topper. Creating the pattern and figuring out the fabric measurements didn't take long at all. The design is very simple and the size of the five inch squares limited what I could do. Each of the four blocks in my table topper uses fifteen 2" squares and two 2" x 5" cuts from the charm pack. Fabrics Needed One 5" square charm pack or a selection of scraps of any color. There is no rule that hearts must be red or pink. 1/2 yard of a neutral background fabric 1/4 yard of fabric for the binding 2/3 yard of backing fabric. Cutting From the neutral background fabric: 4 squares, 3 1/2" x 3 1/2 16 squares, 2" x 2" 4 strips, 2" x 8" 2 strips, 2 1/2" x 17" 2 strips, 2 1/2" x 21" Note: The measurements given are exact, but when I cut strips for sashings and borders I try to add a smidgen extra length. I'd rather trim a bit off than come out a bit short. From the charm squares: 8 rectangles, 2" x 5" 61 squares, 2" x 2" 22 rectangles, 1 1/2" x 5" From the backing fabric: One square 24" x 24" Putting it together Note: All seams are sewn with a 1/4" seam allowance. 1. Start with the two sections (lobes) at the wide upper portion of each heart. Pull sixteen colored 2" x 2" squares and the sixteen neutral 2'x 2' squares. Arrange the pink and red fabrics into sets of four matching fabrics for each of the four hearts. 2. Draw a diagonal line from corner to corner on the wrong side of each of the neutral hearts. 3. Place one neutral square on top of each red or pink square, right sides together. Sew directly on the line. I always hear expert quilters say, "Just eyeball the stitching." If that works for you, by all means skip the line drawing, but for me, skipping it is always a mistake. I've tried eyeballing multiple times, and every single time I've wound up giving my seam ripper a good workout and then drawing the lines anyway. 4. Trim about 1/4" from each seam and press the squares open. Press to the dark. 5. Chose two matching squares of red and pink for each heart. I tried to keep the color values similar to the fabrics just used in making the squares from the half square triangles. Sew the wide side of a triangle to each side of the square as shown below. Oops! It should look like this! Now, here's the truth. We've all seen numerous quilting videos and tutorials showing perfect results every time. Well, the truth is that even the experts make mistakes in quilting. They simply edit them out. Just thought you'd like to know that. 6. Choose two matching 2" x 5" rectangles for each of the heart blocks. Again, fairly close color values are best. The goal is to have two identical, fairly uniform "lobes" for each heart. Sew the rectangles to the sets you made in step 5 as shown below. There will be two for each of the four hearts. 7. The next step is to make the squares that form the base of the heart. These can be randomly placed. Sew the 2" x 2" red and pink squares right sides together in rows of three. Chain piecing can really speed this process along. 8. Next, sew three strips of three squares together to make a nine-patch set for each heart block. Each nine-patch will measure 5" x 5". 9. Sew one "lobe" of the heart to one side of the nine-patch set. Sew a 3 1/2"x 3 1/2" square of the background fabric to one end of the other "lobe". Then sew the two sections together. These seams will complete the blocks. The finished blocks will measure 8" x 8". Since the hearts in my blocks were had either mainly pink "lobes" or mainly "red" lobes, I chose to have the red blocks positionsed diagonally across from each other. The blocks with pinker lobes will also lie diagonally across from each other. 10. Sew one 2" x 8" rectangle of background fabric between each pair made of a red block and a pink block. In this photo, the lower pair of blocks have been flipped. It was easier for me to keep the color order straight when all four blocks were right side up. 11. Sew the single remaining 2" x 2" square cut from the charm pack between the other two 2" x 8" rectangles of background fabric. 12. Sew the strip you just made between the two pairs of blocks. The set of blocks should now measure 17 1/2" x 17 1/2". Almost finished! 13. Sew the 2 1/2" x 17" strips of background fabric to two opposite sides of the square. Beautiful sunshine is coming in my sewing room window! 14. Sew the 2 1/2" x 21" strips of background fabric to the remaining sides of the square. And on to the the final border! This is where I used all but a few of the remaining 5" squares from the charm pack. 15. Sew the 1 1/2" x 5" strips of charm pack fabric end to end in four sets. Two of the sets need five strips, and the other two need six strips. These strip sets will make the last border. 16. Sew a set of five strips to each of two opposite sides of the quilt top. You will have excess fabric. I trimmed some from each end. 17. Sew the other two strips sets to the remaining sides of the quilt top. Again, trim off the excess fabric. 18. Layer the quilt top, batting, and backing fabrics together, and quilt. There are two humongous things I learned from Cindy Neeham's free motion quilting class on Craftsy. Always, always stitch in the ditch on every stinking seam! I hadn't even considered that before taking her class. Going over all those seams may seem like a waste of precious time, but the difference it makes in the final product is amazing. Never, ever will I learn to quilt so precisely - no matter how hard I try or how much I practice! Sigh.. I love my walking foot! It makes that ditch stitching so easy! And, sometimes you really don't need to do any other quilting at all. Like now. It looks just fine, and this was quick. 19. Bind. This was always meant to be a quick project, so I didn't hand stitch my binding to the back of the quilt this time. When I had sewn my binding strips together, I sprayed them with a good coating of starch, folded them in half lengthwise and ironed them dry. The added stiffness from the starch really became helpful later. After the binding was sewn to the front of the quilt, I folded it to the back and ironed it in place. Since the binding had been well starched it held it's position on the quilt beautifully, allowing me to stitch in the ditch to sew it on from the right side. Closeup views of the binding. This side looks great. It isn't perfect , but I don't suppose anyone will spend much time examining the back. Done in only 2 1/2 days! I almost never work more than four or five hours on my sewing, so from start to finish I spent a total of about 12 hours on this project. That time includes everything from designing the project and working out the measurements to stitching the last bit of binding in place. Now I need to move on to something else - like putting Christmas away!
Choose a Pretty Jelly Roll and Backing to Get Started! Jelly roll strips and quilt-as-you-go construction make this a simple project to finish up. It’s easy to adjust the size, as well. Simply make as many of the 10″ blocks as you need, from baby quilt to king size. We love the rich warm colors …
The sale is tomorrow!! It's been a fun week full of cutting and sewing! I absolutely LOVE crafting and hope everyone enjoys seeing what all I have been working on lately! As promised, here is a small sneak peek of some items I love to create... A QAYG Bloomin' Pillow Persimmons Delight Quilt Anna Marie Horner makes some of my most favorite fabric collections! I couldn't resist making a couple quilts: Folk Song Quilts. And one of my most favorite quilt patters.... The Dresden!! I love this vintage-style Quilted Pillow using the Dresden Plate pattern as well as using it to make these Hot Pads!! Quilted Hot Pads (Dresden tutorial here: MQC Youtube Video) Hotpad tutorial here! And you can never go wrong with a few Quilted Mug Rugs at a craft show. And a small lil stack of Baby & Toddler Quilts And if you need a break from sewing, making these fabric magnets were fast, easy, and look how cute they are! The colors options are endless and is a great scrap buster! AND MORE!! This is just a peek at some items that will be set up tomorrow! If you're in the area, I hope to see you there!! And if you're a Disney fan, you'll wanna take a look at this fun quilt Here!
We are almost at the end of January, and there have been so many pink scraps getting used for Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilts! This week I finished off my pink blocks for three different RSC projects. I am eager to find out what our new color will be for February. My first pink set of blocks are for my Bowties 365 project. The pink pieces for all of these blocks had been cut several years ago when I was making Bowtie baby quilts. The blocks will finish at 5". My goal is to make one block every day of this year, and I am already ahead by a few. My Glorified 9-Patch blocks were started in October as my new hand stitching project. Unfortunately, I haven't really been enjoying hand piecing these 6" blocks, so I have switched over to piecing them by machine. I finished four pink blocks this month. My blocks will alternate light and dark backgrounds. I'm looking forward to getting some more colors into this mix. Sew Colorful Stars is one of those patterns that I knew would be a great choice for the RSC when I discovered it at the Fat Quarter Shop last fall. Each 16" block contains 48 half-square triangles, the perfect place to go scrappy! I have two more Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects that I shared earlier in the month. They are the Scrap Magnet blocks and the 30's Kaleidoscopes. It's going to be a busy year for my rainbow of scraps! Scrap Magnet blocks pattern by Kirsty at Bonjour Quilts 30's Kaleidoscopes, 6" blocks Be sure to check out all of the wonderful scrappy projects at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge every Saturday and at Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday. Julie in GA
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The Star Flower quilt block is a fairly easy block to make using half square triangles. Some people refer to this as a Lemoyne Star but that's not really correct as this one is constructed differently and as stated above, is made with HST's. The unfinished size of this block is 10½', finished size 10'. What You Need: 4 x 3' squares of the main fabric 2 x 5' squares of the main fabric 2 x 5' squares of contrasting fabric - no 1 2 x 5' squares of contrasting fabric - no 2 Tools We Used in this Tutorial
En janvier, j'ai participé à une journée de l'amitié organisée par ma délégation sur le thème du log-cabin. J'étais ravie de découvrir cette technique que je ne connaissais pas. Ma copine Danièle qui maîtrise parfaitement m'a bien coachée et voici...
Ich liebe Patchwork-Sachen!Mit Patchwork (einem Quilt für den Erstgeborenen, um genau zu sein) hat das mit dem Nähen bei mir ja überhaupt erst angefangen… und auch wenn ich mittlerweile vor… Weiterlesen
Two weeks ago I attended a class with a very talented local quilter, Shirley Mooney. We started with a single length of a stripey fabric, and a 60 degree triangle ruler. Through out the day we turned the fabric into something completely different. Siren Song by Michael Miller Fabrics Shirley encouraged us to take photos on our phones and study how our arrangements looked on a smaller screen. This was my first attempt: Then it grew to look like this: Then I swapped out 3 of the centres and made all the centres dark, and that looked better: Someone else in the class had the same fabric, but in pink and purple. She went for a different approach: Another student had something completely different: We spent the whole day cutting triangles and playing with the layout. Once we were happy with our layouts we pinned them to sheets and took them home to sew up. The knack is in matching the stripes perfectly, as shown below. Due to the care and attention needed to get the stripes matching correctly, I only got 2 columns sewn together the next day, and even they aren't 100% perfect, but I'll settle for 97.5% perfect in this case. The rest is still pinned to the sheet, waiting to be joined up. Because I'd purchased plenty of fabric, I had enough to do 2 different designs, so I've got 2 designs pinned onto my sheet. It's carefully strewn across my sewing table - I need to be careful that it doesn't accidentally get bundled into the washing machine. Imagine all those pins and triangles floating around in the washing machine. I'll be certain to post more photos as this progress, but it's the start of our winter school holidays now, and my kids are off for 3 weeks. We've got a couple of trips planned so I don't expect to get a lot of sewing done in July. Shirley has a blog called Don't Wait to Create, and is on Instagram with the same name. I recommend you take a look.
A few weeks ago Kathy Doughty sent me this lovely bunch of fabric - a bundle of her new line Celebrate with FreeSpirit. She asked me to be inspired with it and to blog about the design process and some of the elements we use to give a project the "Sew Kind of Wonderful" look.We have been playing with quilt designs that use a curved half square triangle, so I cut a bunch and began laying them out...
A restful depiction of the moon glowing and reflecting in the water through the swamp grass.
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Where was I? Last time, almost two and a half months back I was here and somehow summer months took over. From Gwen's book and collection "37 Sketches" Lynn Harris, a good friend of Gwen, a prolific quilt artist was kind to come along. Lynn has participated in Gwen's retreats since 1998 or so! Lucky Lynn! I am forever thankful for her generosity for taking the time out of her already busy life and agreeing to accompany me to the island. We started our road trip the day after my second workshop at the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild. As we got closer to the lake Michigan, I found out Michigan is another state famous for producing cherries. The orchards were loaded with fruit. On our way to Charlevoix airport we had a great time talking quilts, families, books and being a first time author. Those of you who don't know, the only access to the island is a ferry or a flight. We decided the flight would be extra fun and will save time. We were like kids in a candy store! Our ride to the island Gwen came to pick us up at the airport in her red truck! This picture alone tells how happy we all were to see each other. Gwen and Lynn Next two days we spent talking, sharing and more talking. Gwen was so generous to show us both her antique quilts, textiles from around the world and her own quilts from her numerous books. We spent time in her studio looking at her collections of antique blocks and many laughs. Gwen's Liberated Log Cabin She is all smiles! One of my favorites! Stack of Sketches A Sunset to Remember! Moments I will never forget! The Cover Girl Lynn and I slept in Gwen's guest house covered in quilts made by her. I am still in disbelief when I think of the time I spent on Beaver Island. Gwen is a gem. Not that we all don't already know it. Those of you who have had chance to attend her workshops are fortunate. As Gwen wraps up her teaching years, I am going to continue studying liberated quilting through her books. I wonder what is next for Gwen. We often talk about - What next.. I sure hope she continues writing and inspired us all. Speaking of which, Have you got Gwen's latest book A Common Thread? I highly recommend this book. It is a collection of quilts from many years, takes you on a journey through her entire quilting life. You must visit here to read more reviews of this book. There is a little bit of sewing going on my kitchen table inspired by this book. Hopefully there will be enough progress to post it here soon. Hope you all are enjoying early days of fall. I am stitching away my Square in Square quilt from the book. It is an after thought I love very much! Happy Stitching, Sujata
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I'm thrilled to finally be able to show you my second book with Martingale Publishing. Vintage TreasuresOlde Postage ~ Vintage Treasures ~ Martingale PublishingThe book has twelve wonderful small q
