I considered a different posting and then back to The Quilts of Houston, but so many of you said, “More, more, MORE!” So more it is! We are all about quilting after all, aren’t …
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On Sunday, I had the opportunity to check out a heritage quilt show at Eldon House in honour of Quilt Ontario’s annual conference taking place in London this year (May 25-28 at University of Western
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Join author and designer Natalia Bonner in the 9 Patchalong 2.0, an exciting online stitch-along focusing on machine quilting 9 beautiful 9-patch quilt block motifs! In this engaging SECOND edition, Natalia will guide you through quilting 9 new designs on 9 patch quilt blocks, covering both modern and traditional styles. You'll also receive 9 bonus designs and a fun geometric background filler!! Start Anytime Lessons and workbooks are available now. Enjoy the flexibility to work at your own pace and share your progress in our supportive online community. You'll have lifetime access to the video lessons after the class begins. How to Join Sign Up Here! After checkout, you'll receive an email with instructions on accessing the class dashboard. Join our Piece N Quilt - Show & Tell Facebook group to share your progress, connect with fellow quilters, and find inspiration. Lessons Included 9 Main Designs: Step-by-step instructions and demonstrations. 9 Bonus Designs: Additional creative quilting ideas. 1 Geometric Background Filler: Enhance your quilts with this unique design. Supplies Needed Quilting Surface Panel: Use a custom 9 Patchalong panel from Honest Fabric (51"x60"), or Pieced Top: Use the 9 Patchalong Piecing Workbook to create your own top. Fabric (if piecing your own top) Red: 3/8 yard Turquoise: 3/8 yard Soft Green: 1/4 yard Gold: 1/4 yard Yellow: 3/8 yard White: 1 7/8 yards Backing: 3 yards Binding: 1/2 yard Batting 1 layer of Quilters Dream Poly Deluxe Batting. Rulers Natalia’s machine quilting rulers 4N1 Mini 4N1 Inside Out Mini Inside Out Thread Top Thread: So Fine #401 Bobbin Thread: Bottom Line #624 Workbooks 9 Patchalong 2.0 Design Workbook: Includes 9 patch designs, 9 bonus block designs, and blank blocks for your own sketches. 9 Patchalong Piecing Workbook: Full-color instructions to make the coordinating quilt top. Quilter's Sketchbook: Perfect for doodling your quilting designs. Tools Measuring: A foldable tape measure. Marking: Blue Mark-B-Gone Marker Misting Spray Bottle to remove markings. Skill Level Basic knowledge of free-motion quilting and machine quilting with rulers is recommended. This class is suitable for anyone with a machine capable of these techniques. For beginners, the "Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting" book or online class, and the "Visual Guide to Creative Straight Line Quilting" are recommended but not required. Let’s Get Started! Natalia Bonner's 9 Patchalong 2.0 is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your quilting skills and connect with a community of fellow quilters. Gather your supplies, sign up today, and let's start stitching beautiful 9 Patch designs together! **Workbooks are not spiral bound**
It is the largest quilt show in the world. Visit the Tokyo Quilt Festival at the end of Jan. to see masterpieces of Japan's best textile artists on display.
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The temperatures are finally cooling down here in the Pacific Northwest and we finally had some rain! Oh how I missed the rain!! I am so delighted I chose to make a 16-patch for this month's Scrap-A-Palooza quilt. Some people see Fall as a time to get out their sweaters and wellies, but for me, it sends a signal to my brain that I need a quilt to snuggle under. And a scrappy patchwork quilt like this 16-patch starts the season off perfectly! I found it interesting that I used this same process last fall to make three quilts. Here is a shot of the blocks getting put up on my design wall as they were sewn. In Part One of this quilt, I shared how I seperate my leftover bindings and other 2 1/2" strips in a tub under my cutting table. The bin was over flowing so that was the inspiration for this month's quilt. In Part Two, I shared a quick tutorial on how I sew up these blocks. In Part Three, the blocks were finished up and a top was completed. I also shared the process I use for balancing out colors when laying out a quilt. Today, I am sharing the finished quilt! And I even had some older fabric pieces I was able to use for the backing and the binding. And now for a few statistics: Size: 48 x 56" Fabric: Leftover 2.5" binding strips. Each block has one print and one solid fabric Total Pieces: Need 84 2.5" strips at least 21" long (makes 42 blocks) Here is a photo of the 3 quilts I made last year. All of these quilts went to support kids and I have decided to throw this month's Scrap-A-Palooza quilt on the pile getting donated to Bags of Love as part of 100 Quilts for Kids again this year. The drive ends September 30th so get your quilts finished up and linked to Heather's blog at Quilts in the Queue. Just a reminder, if you are ready to sew up some of your scraps, all of the quilts from the series can be viewed in the Scrap-A-Palooza quilt gallery tab above. Not only can you see the quilt I made but I love to share what others have done. There is all sorts of inspiration! If you are interested in more ways to follow me, you can find me on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin', Feedly, Instagram, Google +, or get my blog sent right to your email inbox by entering your email address on the right sidebar! Linking up: Confessions of a Fabric Addict TGIFF Fabric Frenzy Friday Richard and Tanya Quilts Crazy Mom Quilts Sew Can She Quilts in the Queue
Birds in the Air by Becky Brown who writes: "My 'birds' are a little flock of blue birds - my grandmother called them the blue birds of happiness!" In 1861, as Southern states seceded, leaders justified their actions by expressing fears their Northern sisters were determined to abolish slavery in the entire Union. Florida's secession proclamation cited, "recent indications of the strength of the anti-slavery sentiment of the free States.” In fact, most Northerners continued to ignore slavery's injustices and posed no threat to the South's "peculiar institution." Yet the minority who felt obligated to oppose human bondage were persistent and vocal. Abolitionist was the name for an activist who demanded the end of slavery. In 1784 the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" was organized to reflect Quaker resistance to slavery. The Philadelphia Antislavery Society photographed in 1851 Women were active members of the antislavery societies. A cartoon satirizing Martin VanBuren's attempt to reach out to anti-slavery activitists features a female abolitionist, a favorite caricature. Abolitionists used a symbolic image of a kneeling slave, which had been designed to represent English anti-slavery societies and produced as a ceramic medallion by English potter Josiah Wedgwood in 1787. The idea of a durable, small china logo was brilliant publicity. Copies of the kneeling slave (and a female equivalent) are found on all manner of goods---posters, dinnerware, and textiles---on both sides of the Atlantic. The shackled woman on abolitionist china. One antislavery activist recalled purchasing "children's handkerchiefs at auction. Among them were those on the subjects of temperance, Sunday-schools, and abolition of slavery. The latter were particularly striking---a negro kneeling and chained, with the motto, 'Am I Not A Man and A Brother?' " Quilt attributed to the years 1830-1860, made by Deborah Coates, Pennsylvania. Quaker Deborah Coates might have cut a piece from a similar handkerchief for her silk quilt, one of the few surviving quilts with a reference to slavery. Deborah and her husband Lindley were active in anti-slavery politics and the Underground Railroad. In a central patch is a small copy of the abolitionist image with the words "Deliver me from the oppression of man." After Deborah's death in the 1880s, her offspring cut the abolitionist quilt in half, one side for each branch of the family. When their descendents decided to rejoin the pieces, they removed the binding and found the small image of the African man, which had been cut in half and hidden for decades. The quilt pattern she used was a variation of a popular block pieced of triangles. In 1929 quilt historian Ruth Finley listed names: Birds in the Air, Flying Birds or Flock of Geese. Although we cannot know what Deborah Coates called the pattern, the idea of birds in the air seems particularly appropriate for a block to recall the abolition societies. Patti Butcher Poe made this adaptation of Deborah Coate's quilt for my book Quilts From the Civil War. Cutting the 8" Finished Block A - Cut 3 light and 2 dark squares 3-1/2" Cut each in half with a single diagonal cut. You need 6 light triangles and 3 dark. B - Cut one dark square 8-7/8". Cut it in half with a single diagonal cut. You need one of those triangles. Becky wrote that she sprayed starch on the triangles to stabilize them as the seams are on the bias. The Coates quilt is now in the collection of the Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum. See more about the museum at their website. http://quiltandtextilemuseum.com/qt/?page_id=42 Read more about the antislavery image on two blogposts I've done. http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/11/abolitionist-embroidery.html http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/11/abolitionist-embroidery-2.html And read more about Deborah Coates on the Sesquicentennial Blog maintained by the State Library of Kansas. Scroll down a bit. http://kansas150slk.blogspot.com/2010/09/kansas-quilters-and-kansas-quilts.html
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by Sandra Bruce Before I delve into my post, I want to send out a “Get Well” message to Heidi who is at home recuperating from a burst appendix. She is healing nicely and I’…
I made a Colorwash of exclusively Kaffe Fassett fabrics many of which are early and out of print. It is not the Kaffe Collective which includes fabric by Brandon Mably and Philip Jacobs. It is exclusively Kaffe. This wallhanging is made from the kit of 2.5" squares that will be offered to students of Colorwash 360. I used one of the larger prints on the back and I thought the black Fern print was perfect for the binding. Are you interested in making a Colorwash wallhanging too? If you haven't heard, I have an Online Course launching on October 1, 2018 called 'COLORWASH 360'. You'll learn gradation from light to dark (value) as well as gradation from one color another...And, how to select fabrics that work best. 'COLORWASH 360' opens for pre-sale on September 1. Subscribers will receive 24 hours early access to sign up for the course and purchase the limited edition kits of pre-cut squares or larger blocks to cut multiple squares yourself. Both Batik and Kaffe Fassett Fabric kits will be available in limited quantities to students of COLORWASH 360 only. If you aren't an Exuberant Color subscriber for the mailing list....click here to subscribe.
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UPDATED JULY 6, 2022 — CLICK HERE TO SEE MY CRUMB PIECING TUTORIAL TO LEARN HOW I SELECT FABRICS AND SEW MY CRUMB BLOCKS. INCLUDES A VIDEO TUTORIAL. A little over a week ago on February 22 I …
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.
As I showed you on Thursday, it is fun to use stripped fabrics to make more interesting kaleidoscope blocks. Here is one I made about 10 yea...
When what you're working on has lost it's Mojo, it's important to admit it, and move on. Fish, or cut bait, as they say. Well, this wasn't ...
Welcome to Slow Sunday Stitching where we celebrate all the wonderful benefits of the art of hand stitching! I am so glad you can join us because I have an extra special treat for you english paper piecing enthusiasts! I was at the London Friendship Quilters' Guild quilt show and saw so many amazing quilts, but 4 in particular that I want to share with you today. These quilts are all completely hand pieced, which means every single one of these thousands of tiny pieces of fabric was cut with scissors and hand stitched with a needle and thread. The pattern is called La Passacaglia and is found in Willyne Hammerstein's book called Millefiori. Let's start with our very own Cathy Shepherd who blogs over at Eagles' Wings Quilts. She frequently linked up to Slow Sunday Stitching while we watched over her shoulder as she pieced all these tiny shapes into this spectacular Passacaglia quilt. You cannot even appreciate all the amazing fussy cut designs she created, but trust me... you see something different every time you look at this quilt. Cathy edged all the rosettes in white and bordered them on a blue fabric. And there were 3 more of these quilts hanging in the show! Here is the second one sewn by Charlene O'Donnell. See how she made two borders (a gold and an orange) and then cut off some of the rosettes, and extended some of them into the border? Here is the third one sewn by Lorraine Swanson using civil war colours. She edged the rosettes with brown, and added a larger neutral border and more english paper pieced blocks. See on the bottom right corner where she put examples of the tiny design units?!? I am telling you these pieces are TINY! I should have taken a photo with my hand beside it so you could appreciate the scale of these quilts. And here is the fourth version sewn in brights with black pointed stars around the rosettes. This was made by Lorna Martin and she extended 3 of the rosettes into the border. I am amazed by how each quilter used the same pattern, and how they each look so different! They were really unbelievable! Some of the women at my quilt retreat were working on this same quilt last winter. This is Nancy on the left making a super small version, and Maria on the right making the regular size version. They are holding the same block from the pattern. Wow and wow! I sure do hope I don't fall in love with the idea of making this quilt! Have you tried english paper piecing? What are you hand stitching today? We'd love to see what you're working on, so link up your blog post below and share your progress. An InLinkz Link-up
Birds in the Air by Becky Brown who writes: "My 'birds' are a little flock of blue birds - my grandmother called them the blue birds of hap...
Photos de l'exposition fin septembre 2011 à Bouaye des 18 ouvrages Colourful Quilt du club de patch local.
If you are one of those people that creates things with your hands, you really are very lucky. Apart from the calming effect that handwork has, using your hands to do meaningful tasks benefits both your physical and mental health. I know that it benefits me, curbs depression and boredom, gives me purpose. It definitely calms me and as I mellow with age it tends to make me so laid back that I am almost horizontal. Nothing wrong with that and I feel real sympathy for those that have not discovered the joy of handwork. We all know them – those that say that life is boring (how can you ever be bored I ask, with tears in my eyes), those that look for their kicks at the bottom of a bottle or those that spend their time mall-cruising munching on medication. Sad, really. For those of us that have discovered handwork and, in particular, those of us that discovered it early in life, the chances are we’ve tried the lot. I have. From watercolours to miniatures, dressmaking to felting. And everything in between. The only thing I have never tried is pottery. The idea didn’t grab me, bit messy. But needlework, done with my hands, no machine involved? What can I say? In reality, I have devoted all of my spare time and much of my life to it. I think it would not be unfair to say that most hand-stitchers have tried all of the different arts associated with their passion. Quilting, beadwork, lace making, embroidery, patchwork. They’ve probably also enjoyed crochet, knitting and tatting. But seldom do they combine these different arts. Some years ago I started building a doll’s house. One twelfth scale, everything made with my own hands and a few simple tools. It gave me the opportunity to use every craft that I had ever learnt. From wood carving to gilding, stitching to moulding with polymer clay. I was in my element and, particularly because I was forced to be innovative. I was so pleased with myself when I worked out how to make a wooden floor that looked like the real thing, using a roll of oak strip that kitchen-builders use down the sides of cupboard doors and a carton of wood filler. In my mind, crazy patchwork is the needlework equivalent of that doll’s house. It is an opportunity to use every kind of needle art that you have ever learnt. When I stitch, I spend some of the time thinking up what I am going to do in the future. A few years ago I had this thought that I would like to embellish crazy patch in such a way that not one thing is bought and stitched on, nothing should come out of a stash and, definitely, nothing that decorates it should be a machine-made applique or strip of lace. Everything that forms the embellishment should be made with nothing more than a needle, a thread, some beads and my own imagination. I tucked the idea behind one of my ears for future consideration. It was still sitting neatly behind my left ear when my fabulous publisher and I were sharing far too much French Red in Paris a few years ago. She asked me if I could write a book for quilters. I said no, I’m not an expert on quilting. Then suddenly, fuelled by Bordeaux and Beaujolais, this crazy patch thing came screaming out from behind said ear. And that was it. Or rather, this is it. Two of the projects in the book include crazy patchwork panels that have been put together with a sewing machine but, other than that, everything has been made by hand with a needle. What you might call ‘crazy patch from scratch’. That necessarily means that there are a lot of techniques’ galleries in the first half of the book. These include embroidery, bead embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, tatting, needle weaving and needle lace techniques’ galleries. That’s for the embellishment. There is a techniques’ gallery for crazy patching and also simple quilting techniques for finishing off. We decided to count the number of techniques the other day and it came to something in the region of 160, depending on how you count it. For that reason alone, we are hoping that the book will be of interest to all sorts of needle artists from quilters to embroiderers. Even if the actual projects are not necessarily something they would want to do. However. I had such fun working up the projects. I was barely restricted by lines, I could use every technique that I had ever played with and I could invent different ways to use them. Gussy Up This is the first project in the book and is truly ‘crazy patch from scratch’. I drew a circle with a large soup plate, ruled some lines to resemble crazy patchwork and then had fun. I filled the blocks with either needle weaving or otherwise, crewel embroidery stitches that created a background that loosely resembled fabric. And then I embellished. No applique, but daisies embroidered with thread. No buttons, but three-dimensional flowers made one bead at a time with beautiful Miyuki beads and beading thread. No machine made lace, but needle lace techniques stitched through the fabric to resemble insertion lace, then threaded with Di van Niekerk’s hand painted silk ribbon. Silk ribbon roses, bead embroidery, tatting and even some simple beading techniques that are generally used to make necklaces or bracelets, rethought to resemble braid. Of all the designs in the book, I had the most fun with this one. Nightshade The embroidery in the middle, although resembling crewel work is largely done with needle weaving, needle lace and bead embroidery, with a few crewel stitches pulling the whole thing together. The outside border is, as with the previous project, crazy patch from scratch. Every block is a needle weaving technique and where the two parts of the design meet, the intersection is worked with a beadwork jewellery technique. My friend Pat van Wyk took my line drawing, enlarged it and (being a hand quilter at heart) recreated it with applique and traditional crazy patch techniques. A photograph of the exquisite cushion that she made it into appears in the book. Waiting For Santa The cuff of this Christmas stocking is, like the previous two projects, worked from scratch. Just lines on the fabric to resemble crazy patch, then lots of fun filling in with once again, a selection of all of the techniques – embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, needle lace, needle weaving, tatting…….and the pattern to make up the stocking is in the book. Rambling Vine If you thought that I might have forgotten my readers who are embroiderers pure and simple, then the Rambling Vine design would put your mind at rest. It is a wall hanging (or whatever you would like to make it) that comprises an ornate Jacobean-style embroidered branch lying adjacent to a panel of traditionally-worked crazy patch, machine stitched with 15 different fabrics onto a natural-coloured linen/cotton blend base. And madly embellished, in line with the general style of this book. There are of course, needle artists out there who don’t want to embroider and to show them that they don’t have to, my friend Margie Breetzke has worked the Jacobean panel using a combination of applique techniques, bead embroidery and simple embroidery stitches. A photograph of the stunning result is in the book. Savannah Winter The day before I started this project, I had driven back from Johannesburg through the dry Highveld, as we call it in South Africa. A long, straight, flat, rather boring drive, it was mid-winter and everything at first glance appeared to be dead, dry and frigid with frost. I was, however, in the right frame of mind, not ever having really noticed how splendid the colours were on previous drives at the same time of year. For the better part of six hours I watched the road through my windscreen, all the time marvelling at the colours that were there. The gold and khaki of the dry grass, the grey-blue of the winter sky, the purple of the mountains in the distance, the green of the few evergreen trees, the crystal of the frost on the ground and some pink. When I got to Harrismith, decided it was time for a break and took off my sunglasses, I realised there was no pink in the landscape. It was my rose-tinted spectacles. But, what the heck, it’s a nice addition to the palette and so it was included. This project is machine-pieced crazy patchwork, the embellishment is of course, all hand worked using the same variety of techniques and I have made it into a lid for a covered basket. So…. Once again, Liezl Maree, Metz Press’s amazing book designer has taken my ramblings and turned them into a masterpiece. Between us all we think that we’ve caught all the errors and typos in the interminable proof reading process (if we haven't, please forgive us - with the best will in the world, it's an impossible task) and it goes off to print this week. The publishers, the printers, the ship that brings it to us from Malaysia, the warehouses, the distributors and any other players that I may not have mentioned, are working to a schedule that will mean that it is available from the 15th of March 2016. And where to get it? If you want to pre-order you can do so at: Amazon; The Book Depository; or Search Press. If you’re in South Africa, or indeed anywhere on the African continent, it’s not up there yet but you will be able to get if from: this website; or Takealot, who have taken over Kalahari.net and really do deliver. I know. I order from them all the time. With this book I set out to show readers and needle artists that they can combine the needle arts. All it takes is imagination and many enjoyable, calming hours. I hope that my intention will be achieved.
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Here is block number #50 of the Deli Geese Block Project! Block #50 Babe, uses the Top Units from Dark Flying Geese units. Details of making the units are found here. Top Unit from Dark Flying Ge…
Kantha quilts are made by stitching together flattened layers of old saris or old discarded clothes together. They look kaleidoscopic with a collection of vivid colors and designs that make …
All done and the binding will be in a pink 1930's reproduction print. Pleased with the way these blocks blended! Pictures & comments in Piecing 2016 Set 2.
