Here is another Free Pattern Day with more than 40 free sewing and quilting patterns for Kaffe Fassett fabrics! There are patterns for qui...

Interweave, patterns, pdf quilt pattern, Kaffe Fassett, Amy Butler,

I am so excited about going to QuiltCon in Austin. I signed up so long ago and can’t believe it’s just around the corner. Texas….here I come.In antici...

Youngest 21st gift... Well one of them! elsy-fillingthespace.blogspot.co.uk

I remember seeing a quilt by Kaffe Fassett where the sunlight shines through the fabric to give it a stained glass effect.

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Modern quilting explorations and modern quilt patterns.

This weekend's project was a fun mini quilt featuring Kaffe Fassett prints. The idea was to make each print appear to have a sha...

I've been working on my Ballet with Kaffe quilt for a few months now. I've started four large rosettes, but I'm only putting seven of the 10 pointed stars on each rosette until I decide on the final layout for my quilt. I hate unpicking English Paper Piecing, so I like to leave my options open as I make the rosettes. I also don't cut the pieces too far in advance. I like to check my plans every step of the way, and frequently change my fabric selections before I get to the cutting stage. I started with these fabrics above for my most recent two rosettes, but you can see below that after making the centres, I changed my mind slightly for both of them. I used the three fabrics on the right above for each centre, but I changed the next round slightly. I do believe that it's the attention to small details like this that make my quilts stand out. Yes, it means I spend hours (or days) dithering over fabric selections, but I don't cut until I'm really sure my fabrics are right. If I'm not happy with my choices, I keep experimenting. I love how this centre turned out. English Paper Piecing makes matching stripes easier than hand piecing. 10 pointed stars People have been asking me about the 10 pointed stars and how to make them line up properly. Here's my advice: 1. Make two sets of 5 long diamonds, being sure to stitch right up to the points. 2. Start from the centre and sew out to one side. Use Clover Clips to keep the ends aligned. 3. Then sew out from the centre to the other end. Mine don't always turn out perfectly, but I know they will look better once the papers have been removed. I hope this helps some of you struggling to get these stars to line up. Willyne's third book will be released very soon. I'm excited to see what new patterns she has come up with. You can find more information about both of my millefiore quilts on the tabs at the top of the page - la passacaglia and Ballet with Kaffe.

I was able to find most of the original fabrics needed for this quilt. It turned out to be my practice quilt for free motion sewing machine quilting. The big floral prints made it quite easy and fun. I just outlined the flower pebbles and leaves.

Bit different for me- loads of fun! (Love Brandon Mably!)

Jetzt ist es dann so weit und ich möchte Euch das Ergebnis meines ersten Swapp`s zeigen. Also es war wirklich mein erster und er hat mächtig viel Spaß gemacht. Mitgemacht haben 45 Patchwork begeisterte Frauen und er ist jetzt fast abgeschlossen. Hier könnt Ihr die anderen Werke anschauen und falls jemand die Lust verspürt am nächsten Swap teilzunehmen, die Infost gibt es auch dort Jetzt aber zu dem Quilt, den ich erhalten habe und der mir sehr gut gefällt. Genäht hat ihn für mich Carola . Nochmals vielen Dank. Einen Platz hat er noch nicht bekommen, das kommt nach Weihnachten, jetzt hängt zu viel anderes rum. Ich verspreche Dir Carola, er bekommt einen würdigen Platz. Und hier ist das gute Stück Schaut mal wie schön gequiltet!!!!!!! Mit wunderschönem multicolor Garn Bei Swap°pen auf Deutsch 6 geht es um ein im geheimen genähtes Kissen, aber das könnt Ihr unter dem Link alles nachlesen. Es war eine sehr schöne Gruppe und ich werde da mitmachen, habe auch schon was im Kopf, was ich dann mache. Dann habe ich mich noch zu 12 Bee`nchen auf Reisen angemeldet, dazu aber später mehr. Wünsche Euch schon heute einen schönen vierten Advent Grüße Eva

Here are some pieces of fiber art that I'm inspired by! Grab a cup of something hot, sit back, and enjoy some wonderful websites! India Flint's weaving: Thom Atkin's "August: Thank you Kaffe Fassett": Arline Fisch's crochet Lantern Medusa: Kirsten Chursinoff's Knapweed 3: Happy Creating! Deborah

A luminary in the world of textiles and quilting, Kaffe Fassett has inspired quiltmakers all over the world to work with color in an instinc...

Join in for the last part of the Kaffe Hat Box Quilt Series! You will be piecing the quilt top, quilting and learning binding techniques!

Whether we know it or not, there is always some influence that triggers a quilt. It could be anything. This blog shares my quilts and the journey of their creation.

I dug in this afternoon and pinned and sewed the final three horizontal seams for this bright quilt and can now count it among my finished quilt tops in the last year — number 16. I’m p…

It's been a while since I have posted here mainly due to the fact that I've just barely been able to keep up with life in general due to sicknesses going on here with myself and the kids. Nothing serious, just constant! I'm still sewing though, but possibly not getting done everything that I would like to! Nothing new, right? I have had the opportunity to attend two workshops the last two weekends. Considering that I have only attended four workshops in my quilting career up until now, it felt like a very busy week! Last weekend's workshop was with Chris Jurd, which I will blog about next. This weekend's workshop was with none other than the wonderful Kaffe Fassett! Nearly as long as I have been quilting, I have wanted to attend a Kaffe Fassett workshop. I have spent many many hours over the years pouring over his books and dreaming of quilts to make inspired by him. When I heard that Addicted to Fabric in Canberra was going to host Kaffe Fassett and run a workshop for the Bordered Diamonds quilt from his book, "Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts", I jumped at the chance. And I have no regrets! If anyone is unfamiliar with how Kaffe runs his workshops with his partner Brandon Mably, they are all about the design process and colour placement. There is no sewing involved, but rather a lot of cutting and placing of fabrics on a design board and then moving and arranging the fabrics around. For me, this is the most exciting part of quilting, so a workshop dedicated to this process was extremely interesting to me. The morning started out with a brief introduction and discussion on how it is important that we work quickly and not hesitate or over think what we put up on the design wall. Their mantra is the same as the Nike commercial, "Just Do It". Most important was that we get something up on the design board and then stand back from quite a distance to look at our work. They suggested using a reduction glass to look through so that we could see what was working and what wasn't working easily. For the Bordered Diamonds quilt they suggested that large prints would be most effective and that smaller scale fabrics would be effective to use as the frames for each diamond. We were to cut the large diamonds out first and get them on the board first and then go back and work on filling in the frames for each large diamond later. Neither Kaffe or Brandon teach the workshop in a manner that they spend time babysitting what you are doing, but rather there is the feeling (particularly of Kaffe) of someone standing in the background parenting with a bit of gentle guidance here and there. This method I feel allowed me to be able to work and gain confidence as the day progressed. After I had placed about 15 diamonds up on my board, Kaffe did wander over and was quickly able to see what the color palette was that I was mainly using. He picked out about three or four of the darkest diamonds and said that they created too much contrast--too dark against the lightest of the fabrics that I had already had on the board. It surprised me how simply taking out those diamonds, suddenly made the start of my quilt seem clear and gave me direction as to where I wanted to go with it. I had brought with me a range of blue/purple, red and yellow/gold fabrics with a desire to try to use yellow in my version of his quilt. I told Kaffe that I find it tricky to use yellow in general and wanted to concentrate on this as an exploration on how to use it! Brandon mentioned that next to black and white, yellow is the most difficult color to work with. Kaffe's suggestion was to add in green, which I didn't bring with me, so I did get the opportunity of having him go "shopping" with me to pick out possible fabrics. That too, was an educational experience to see how his mind works. I suggest that if anyone ever gets an opportunity to do a workshop with them to take them up on their suggestions! It's the easiest way to begin to see what they already know. Close to lunch time I had already starting working on my borders for each of the diamonds. The suggestion was not to try and match the border fabric to the large diamond, but rather use instinct and choose the fabric based on what we feel works. Using a single or two color fabric seemed to work better than using detailed fabrics with many colours. Here is where I was up to when we broke for lunch: After lunch we kept working and trying to fill in as much as we could. Kaffe would walk around the room, sit down on a chair looking very relaxed and just look. Then he would walk up and point to an area and say, try this here, or this here. What I got from it was that where there is high contrast next to each other creates a starkness and doesn't let the colours dance together. Neither should the fabrics blend into each other. It was effective to choose a different colour for the border than the centre diamond. There is a subtle play and harmony when it works which allows the integrity of the shape of the diamond to remain clear. Below is a photo of where I was at at the end of the day. He then goes around the room and talks about the process each student went through to create their own palettes. This was an extremely interesting part of the workshop and fun to see how each person came up with really beautiful palettes of colour. This is a quilt I would like to try again to see how I could make it work in a different palette. Maybe next time I will try a darker palette. Here are some photos of what some other ladies in my workshop made during their day at the workshop: All in all, I was very pleased with the entire experience of the workshop. It's an educational experience. Be warned though, Kaffe and Brandon are very disciplined in their approach to teaching and expect you to be on your best behavior! We had a very nice group, so everything went very smoothly. At the end we got a chance to have our own books signed by Kaffe and then we rolled up our flannels with our quilt layout to be sewn up at home. I hope to get mine on my design board in the next week or two so that I can still remember what I learned in the workshop as I finish it! I want to add another row to each side so that it is the same size as the one in the book, which I believe is approximately 55" x 80". If you ever get an opportunity to attend a workshop with Kaffe and Brandon, don't hesitate, just do it!

Last Sunday I attended my second design class with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably. (The first was two years ago which you can read about here.) Kaffe talking about my quilt This time we were making

C'est décidé, il faut passer à autre chose (mais l'idée pourra être déclinée dans d'autres coloris, ou alors seulement suggérée...) Alors pour en finir avec "A la manière de Vasarely" version "rayés de Kaffe Fassett", voici le dernier né, benjamin de la bande. Bloggué ici : Le fil à malice

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This page is all about my Ballet with Kaffe Fassett quilt. I've called my quilt Fireworks. Fireworks I started my Ballet quilt on 8 June 2017 with these fabrics. Although I'm a great Kaffe Fassett fan, I decided not to make his fabrics the focus for this quilt. I've always thought this pattern resembled fireworks, so I used a dark background to represent the night sky, and made the colours in my rosettes really pop, like fireworks do. I've loved this particular Cotton + Steel print above for some time, so I decided to use it as my inspiration fabric for this quilt. It's by Sarah Watts from the Spring 2015 Honeymoon range and is called Sketches and Memories from Costa Rica. I just love how the colours work together, and it has the dark background I'm looking for. Here are links to all my posts on the Ballet with Kaffe quilt: 15 June 2017 - Getting started 27 August 2017 - Progress and how to sew a 10 pointed star 15 Feb 2018 More progress 8 April 2018 - Meeting Willyne Hammerstein at AQC Melbourne 10 April 2018 - Willyne's Moncarapacho quilt at AQC 6 Feb 2019 - Back at it 12 Dec 2019 - Ballet with Kaffe Revisited 2 Jan 2020 - Ballet with Kaffe top is finished 4 April 2020 - How I attached the borders 20 August 2021 - Ballet with Kaffe = Fireworks (the finished quilt) August 2017 Here's my progress from the first few months of working on this quilt. I don't imagine it will all come together this quickly, but new quilts always pull me in and get me stitching quickly. February 2018 February 2019 Just like on la passacaglia, my mind is working faster than my hands and I already have groupings of fabrics set aside for future rosettes. I'm really looking forward to this adventure. January 2020 - the top is finished April 2020 and the borders are on. May 2021 - it's finished an on display at the Great New Zealand Quilt Show in Rotorua, NZ