We all end up with leftover blocks when we finish a quilt, they sit there in our scrap pile staring at us very time we add to that scrap pile. Last year at the Brisbane Modern Quilt Guild, the members brought in their orphan blocks and we pieced them together to make community quilts. It… Continue reading Orphan Block Quilt – City Scapes
I am well on track to complete 30 quilts this year. I have now completed 12 and 13. Quilt number 13 was actually started on quilt retreat last year and quilted last year but I hadn’t finished binding it. So i guess that is cheating but I am counting it as finished in 2017. I… Continue reading Quilt Challenge 30
So far the year I have been on fire starting and finishing quilts. Another project I started over the Christmas break was Noodlehead (Anna Graham’s) Ten Square Quilt. I feel I need love with this quilt as soon as I saw it and knew I had to make it straight away. I had some low… Continue reading Another finished for 2017
I have had a very successful start to 2017, with two finished quilts. One was a work in progress (WIP) which I started in May 2015 at a class at Patches at Indooroopilly with Lorena Uriarte. The second one I started a couple of days before Christmas and it was my Christmas project. In May… Continue reading Great Start to 2017
I have finally stepped right out of my comfort zone and designed my first quilt pattern. Earlier in the year I was commissioned to make a batman quilt but I couldn’t find any patterns. So I got out my graph paper and drafted myself a pattern. Each block is 2 1/2″ square and I made… Continue reading My First Quilt Pattern
So for the last four to five years, I have been working on a queen sized hexagon quilt. I must be the slowest hand sewer, because I am not even half way finished yet. This year I have been more productive than in past years and sew together about 10 blocks. Back in February 2015… Continue reading Hexagon blocks
So I have been struggling to finding time to learn new techniques on Baz, my long arm quilter. Then I received my monthly newsletter from Gammill and there was a video on how to do ‘quilt as you go’ using the long arm and I thought what a great idea I must try that sometime. So… Continue reading Latest Quilt
