One of my most popular classes over recent years has been 'Light up your Landscape'. I have made many quilts using these tiling techniques. I love the way that using small tiles of colour and texture add a feeling of light and radiance to the design. Every quilt made by students in this workshop has been beautiful and unique. It is an effective and useful technique that you can incorporate in to your own quilt making to help create perspective and movement.This is the second class now availab
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Binding your quilt is a great feeling- it means you’re almost done! It’s a simple process that gives your project the perfect, finished edge. But if you’ve never done it, binding can look a little tricky. How do you get those perfect corners? Where do all the raw edges go? If you’re brand new to…
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In 2012 I embarked on a mission to make a Sashiko Quilt and this was the result: Sashiko Quilt Sashiko detail Why did I decide to make a Sashiko quilt? There were three reasons: 1. I saw the lovely shiny Japanese fabrics stacked up my local quilt shop and thought, "aren't those lovely!". 2. We were about to have a Japanese exchange come and stay with us for three weeks, and later in the year my son would be going to Japan for three weeks. 3. I thought it would be fun to experiment with the hand stitching on the dark panels. Sashiko Quilt I didn't realise how mathmatically challenging it would be, but I am an accountant, so I just pulled out my calculator and graph paper and managed just fine. Here's how I went about making my sashiko quilt: - I chose a simple pattern with quite big squares for the shiny Japanese fabrics, so I could still see them easily in the finished quilt. I chose a range of the dark indigo fabrics. - I started to piece the quilt into sections of about 12 blocks. Each of the individual blocks measures 8.75" x 8.75" when finished. I knew I wanted to do the sashiko before the whole quilt was pieced together, but I also knew that the dark indigo blocks needed to be pieced before I did the sashiko so I could stitch to the very edges of them. - I used library books and the internet to research sashiko patterns. I found lots of designs that I liked, but I had to scale them to fit my blocks. Some of the sashiko patterns I used in my quilt Navy blocks are 8.75" x 8.75" finished - I used tailor's chalk to draw grids on the dark indigo squares to map out where the designs would sit. - I went over the chalk marks with the sewing machine because they were rubbing off too easily. - I hand stitched the Sashiko patterns between the grid lines with Ecru DMC Perle 8. (Sashiko thread is expensive in New Zealand and I knew I would need alot.) - I pulled out all of the grid lines I'd made with machine stitching. - Once all of the hand stitching was done, I joined all the sections together and formed the quilt. - I had quilted simple grid lines and diagonal lines through the shiny blocks and left the sashiko blocks as they were. I didn't want to distract from the sashiko stitching. The quilt on our bed The backing, and label of course! I'm really pleased with how this quilt turned out. It has wool batting in it so is my warmest quilt and we use it in the winter. The facts: Each of the navy blocks measures 8.75" x 8.75" finished. I used ecru Perle 8 for the sashiko stitching. I did all of the sashiko before I made the quilt sandwich. The quilt has wool batting. The finished quilt measures 62" x 80".
Here is one to all the gardeners out there! We are about a month away from being able to work the soil and plant here. I am looking forward to it this year.
Indonesian cotton batik fabrics and digitally printed cotton and silk organza are the inspiration for the textile assemblages I create for the wall and for the tabletop. Each piece of […]
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In 2012 I received an email from a quilter named Ria Mille who was interested in attending my Maine summer quilt retreat. This wasn’t an unusual occurrence. What caught my eye, besides her ch…
In 2012 I received an email from a quilter named Ria Mille who was interested in attending my Maine summer quilt retreat. This wasn’t an unusual occurrence. What caught my eye, besides her ch…
Sharon Shamber's love for the traditional Pickle Dish design, was a great motivation as she was designing her Pickle Promenade quilt design. Sharon has taken the design to new places with her gorgeous embroidered quilting designs. Sharon is well known for detailed and thorough instructions, and this embroidered quilt is no exception. On the instructional video (link below, and on the PDF), Sharon guides you, visually, through the how-to techniques for each portion of the quilt. In addition, Sharon has included PDF tutorials to guide you along. You will be amazed by what you create with Sharon by your side, and her designs at your fingertips.With Pickle Promenade, Sharon will introduce you to the Hoop-Dee-Doo and Design Align: Precise Embroidery Alignment System. Design Align is revolutionary and enables seamless alignment! Design Align is universal, for all hoops and machine types. The Hoop-Dee-Doo is a hoop stabilization system that helps you create the most accurate stitch-outs you've ever experienced. In addition, Sharon's raw-edge applique technique will make your embroidered applique unbelievably soft! This complete version of Pickle Promenade has many new and unique features, including: New Design Align: Precision Alignment System embedded files New mulit-formatted embroidery and quilting files New Innovative quilting-in-the-hoop technique with Sharon's very own "tongue and groove" method An elaborate embroidered binding Multi-formatted digitized longarm quilting designs Features: Easy Construction with Detailed Instructions on video and PDF Innovative Raw-edge Applique Technique - no fusible required! Includes 3 Embroidered Quilting Styles: Feathers, Stipples and Modern Lines Plus SO much more! What You'll Need: 145mmx240mm Hoop Liquid Stitch Glue Tips FOSSHAPE® 300 Freezer Paper Fabric Thread Iron Other Basic Sewing Supplies Wool Batting (used as a stabilizer) 15-20 yards Applique Foundation Quilt Dimensions of a 3 ring by 3 ring quilt: 49.5", including the border. This size of this quilt can be modified, by adding or subtracting "rings", and border units, to and from the quilt. Now available as a download! File Formats: Embroidery: .DST, .EXP, .HUS, .JEF, .PCS, PES, .SEW, .SHV, .VIP, .VP3, .XXXLongarm Quilting Files: .DXF, .CQP, .HQF, .PAT, .IQP, .TXT, .SSD, .QLI, .PLT Complete Instructional Video (Embroidered Quilt Top version): Quilt As You Go Instructional Video: https://youtu.be/8GNi1P-NvFA
I'll be joining Judy and Beth today to finish playing with these. These are just stinkin' cute blocks from the pattern Dog Gone Cute by Sew Fresh Quilts. I'm using Kona Ash for the background, a Robert Kaufman white on white, and some left over plaid shirt bits. These are the large size blocks, so I'm setting them 2 x 3 for a baby quilt. I have some paw print plushy for the back. Maybe I'll even make a pillow for a cute gift set. This should keep me out of trouble today - dinner is going to cook in the crock pot. Sewingly Yours, Sharon
I've had this quilt quilted for over a week, but haven't had a chance until now to get the photos of it taken. It was such a fun quilt to make and I'm so happy with how it turned out. I used a ton of colorful scraps and quilted it with very organic vertical lines in a cream colored cotton thread. The batting is Warm & Natural cotton. For the backing, I used a pretty plaid 100% cotton home dec fabric. Just a bit heavier in weight than the quilting cottons in the quilt top. It's cheerful, isn't it? And, it's in the shop. Take care,
My quilting friends at church have been making asterisks for our group quilt. We are all thrilled with the result and want to share it with you all. You can find a tutorial for this block at Karen Griska's blog here.
waren we uitgenodigd bij één van onze leveranciers. Reden we vorige week met z'n vieren naar Deventer om vooral Kaffe Fasset te ontmoeten, dit keer reed ik samen met Els naar Culemborg. Natuurlijk een gezellig weerzien met Rinske en haar crew Allemaal mooi neergezet in de hal een mooie entree trouwens met prachtige quilts doen gelijk al zo zonnig aan en voor ons overbekend omdat we de patronen verkopen of verkocht hebben. De WC, daar ga je voor plezier naar toe voor Els de eerste keer dat ze dit meemaakte en ze genoot Maar we kwamen natuurlijk eigenlijk voor Bonny Sullivan Zij gaf de workshop En ze is de ontwerpster van deze mooie quilts ze werkt veelal met flanel we kregen een pakketje van een sneeuwman en het principe is makkelijk. Bijna alles is voorgedrukt, een paar onderdeeltjes moeten worden vastgezet. en in no-time heb je dus een quiltje af. heerlijk voor als je graag iets seizoensgebonden in je kamer wilt hangen. Els heeft hem gisteravond al afgemaakt En Bonny? Ze hoefde niet veel uit te leggen, het was een makkelijk klusje. En dus nam ze uitgebreid de tijd om bij de groepjes aan te schuiven en om gezellig bij te praten. Ik hoop dat ze eens naar Den Bosch toekomt als ze weer in Nederland is. Het is een lief en hartelijk mens!! Dank je wel Rinske en de rest voor een heerlijk, mooi en goed verzorgd dagje uit waar wij erg van genoten hebben. Jarig zijn gaat vanzelf Ineens ben je 40 en vier je dat ergens op locatie uiteraard kindvriendelijk en met beide families in de bossen bij Hilversum. Helaas kon Maastricht niet aanwezig zijn. Met een papa die in het ziekenhuis werkt en nacht- en weekenddiensten heeft en dan 3 kindjes waarvan er 2 last van wagenziekte hebben is het voor de mama niet mogelijk om het hele eind alleen af te leggen. Maar niet getreurd: eind van de maand staat een zondag gepland in de Efteling met alle gezinnen en dan vieren we alles wat er te vieren valt! Toekomstplannen worden besproken want die zijn er genoeg bij de veertigers Heerlijk.... Een jarige papa hebben is dodelijk vermoeiend Morgen gaan we om 10 uur weer open, morgenmiddag is Jules weer aan de beurt. Fijne dag. Hopen dat het nog een beetje mooi weer is. groetjes Wietske
The pattern for my daisy quilt is now up on Craftsy! The pattern includes 2 foundation pieced blocks - the daisy flower block and the stem and leaf block. There are 2 ways you can make the stem and leaf block. You can paper piece the entire block or you can just paper piece the leaves and traditionally piece the rest of the block. As a bonus I've included instructions for making a 50" x 60" quilt from the blocks!
In 2012 I received an email from a quilter named Ria Mille who was interested in attending my Maine summer quilt retreat. This wasn’t an unusual occurrence. What caught my eye, besides her ch…
Everyone seem to catch on the trend to watch 3D movie lately, so I tried to follow the 3D's trend by making 3D owls....LOL. There isn't an...
In 2012 I received an email from a quilter named Ria Mille who was interested in attending my Maine summer quilt retreat. This wasn’t an unusual occurrence. What caught my eye, besides her ch…
The top is sewn. There are a lot of pieces on the bias on the edge so I staystitched it to keep it from stretching. A recap in case you haven't been following my progress on this quilt top: all Keiko Goke Japanese fabrics, cut with Strips 'n Curves templates sets 1 and 2. Here are 2 small pots that sit in front of the garage door. I don't use this side of the garage for a car so the pots aren't in the way. The pink flowers were on clearance so I had to rescue them. The art quilters are coming today. The cookies are baked, the basement is clean.
