Rainbows

Last weekend, I was on a four-day workshop at Handcrafters House with David Taylor, which was loads of fun, and I will tell you all about it later when I have done some more of my homework. This week, however, I …

Appliqué

I have been asked how I sew my appliqué so neatly, so I thought I would share my methods. This is not the ultimate guide to appliqué, merely a window into what I do. I took some photos on a …

Dear Jane, I am a rebel

I have finished sewing half of my Dear Jane quilt’s borders. I only have half the border blocks left to sew! My friend Phil, over at The Guilty Quilter, is rapidly steaming ahead of me, even though she is sewing …

Appliqué rainbow baby quilt

A few months ago, a member of our sewing group, Denise, who used to be a professional sewing teacher in the USA, offered to teach appliqué to anyone who was interested. I think my appliqué skills are pretty good, but …

Dear Jane, how did you design your triangles?

I have been making up my own versions. The links take you to PDFs of my modified versions. I sewed a few appliqué blocks by modifying some of the designs of the square blocks. I found that modifying B1 Bachelor Buttons …

Quilting school (part three)

Two finished cushions! Hurrah! I have so many incomplete projects languishing in the back of the cupboard – both not quite finished and not quite started – but I was determined my two Mariya Waters class samples would not be added …

Scrap box challenge (part two)

Still full of enthusiasm for my scraps, I have been through my pile of warm-coloured small scraps. As I did with when making the scrappy blue and green humidicrib quilt top, I ironed and cut the scraps into two sizes …

Quilting school (part two)

On Sunday I did a second class with Mariya Waters. In this class we learned her clever method of machine appliqué, which allows you to turn under the edges of the fabric as you would if sewing by hand. Raw-edge …

Dear Jane, what were you thinking?!

More importantly, dear Jane, what was I thinking when I decided to follow in your footsteps and make a quilt out of hundreds of tiny, complex blocks? Last year at the local quilt show I was inspired by a Dear Jane …

Baby redwork

While rummaging through my red fabrics looking for scraps to make the apples and oranges sewing kits, I rediscovered some leftover nine-patch blocks I had made. How did I end up with too many blocks? When I laid out all …