Big, bright, bold blocks make up this Fireworks quilt I designed. It was fun mixing up the warm toned fabrics and the 14" blocks repeat to create an explosion of light against a dark navy background. The quilt is 56" square, I seem to have a thing for square quilts... they do work well for lap quilts.
I quilted in using my favourite straight line pattern, cross hatch, in a bright yellow thread to continue the theme. You can see the Sewing Quarter demo here.
When I get time I intend to recreate this using print fabrics, it would be cool to see how different it would look and those rectangles are calling out for some fussy cuts! I will have to see what I have in my stash that would work... ummm... I wonder!
A very sweet baby quilt next. I demoed this on Sewing Quarter too, the pattern is by Victoria Carrington. It's an adorable way to show off the panel, featuring illustrations by Anita Jeram from the book Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney.
I added 3D pinwheels to each corner in the mustard spot, they look like the twinkly stars from the print. Unfortunately there were some fabric hare casualties during the making of this quilt.
Where I could I added in fussy cuts though and the size of the squares worked well with the prints to allow some cute hare cuddles!
The next project was a bit more of a challenge. There wasn't time for me to do embroidery, so I improvised to create a project from the book Redwork Blizzard Buddies by Pearl Louise Krush. I chose three of the larger designs, machine stitched them and sewed a wall hanging.
It's not the same effect as embroidery but I certainly had fun playing with the decorative stitches on my Elna 680 machine, many of which I hadn't used before! The memory function was really helpful to allow me to add details like the decorative stitches on the door and the snowman's buttons.
The flying geese trees frame the panels and it makes a nice wintery hanging. I used more decorative machine stitches to quilt the runner. Along the sashing and in the border.
This stitch, mode 2 #19 on my machine has become a firm favourite for quilting. It's so pretty and looks different when you play about with the stitch width and length. I enjoy stitches that are changeable like that. Maybe because it feels like you get more out of it!
Finally one last quilt, I forgot to photograph it myself and Chris the Floor Manager was kind enough to send me this picture! This is a tumbling blocks quilt, using the Red Blocks pattern from Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Italy. Rather than use the templates in the book I devised a way to use my Creative Grids rulers to cut all the shapes. It worked perfectly I am really happy with how the quilt turned out. You can see the demo here (as well as see me shaking pumpkins on my head!).
I hope you're all enjoying a lovely weekend, maybe with some sewing time?
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Guess How Much I Love You has always been one of my favourite children's books. I would love to make this when one of own children eventually has babies. x
It is so sweet and such a lovely book to read with kids! 💗
I couldn't believe at first that your red work wasn't hand stitched. It looks fun to do, I like red work embroidery. And the baby quilt, I have a few to make. Well, I don't HAVE to, but I would like to. I must think about panel quilts, with a few additions to personalise them