Hearts and Flowers

This quilt was made as a Block of the Month quilt challenge at our local group. Each month we got another instalment and paid a £1 for the pattern. The money collected became the prize money for 1st, 2nd and 3rd voted for by fellow quilters - aka quilters choice, at the AGM. Sadly mine did not win, but all the quilts were amazingly different and gorgeous.

I choose very pretty colours - not my usual colour choice at all. I enjoyed working with this range though and it made me realise how much I like white/cream for backgrounds.

 You can see here  how I have adapted this pattern

Colourful scrappy cotton reefs, WIP

This is my first attempt at a true colour wash quilt. I planned my colours on EQ5 and then decided upon  the cotton reel block Each block is 6" finished

Using the same fabrics I designed a border to run alongside the colours in the main quilt. The cream is a very fine calico. I am currently quilting the cream and outlining all the reels. as you can see its a work in progress.

Started early 2012

First Art Quilt

Wow, some workshops really are exciting and fire my enthusiasm, inspiration and creative juices. The one with Pat Deacon was such a workshop. She taught us how to construct a small piece of art from irregular shapes.

The piece was first hand drawn onto freezer paper and then marked up. This was then cut out and ironed onto fabric. The techniques for sewing the pieces together although not new to me was used in a slightly different way.

This is one of the few workshops that I will use the technique to create many more inspired pieces.