Tuesday 24 October 2017

A Memory Wedding quilt (2)

Hello everyone, this is the wedding memory quilt so far, after we decided on the woven effect design. This is block one:

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I have made nine blocks altogether and sashed them with cream quilters calico. Here is the finished top:

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The quilt sandwich has been made and the backing fabric is a cotton from Ikea with tiny dotted rings on it, well, it is a wedding quilt!

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I hope the quilt will be finished by Friday so I can show it off to you,
Kind regards,
Sue 



Thursday 12 October 2017

A Memory Wedding Quilt

This week I have a new commission from Louise. It is such a lovely thing to be asked to make ....  She has sent me the wedding wraps used at her brother's wedding and I am going to make them into  a happy memory quilt. The wraps are gorgeous colours, each one woven in two shades and they have the most marvellous tassles too. Really I am quite excited about the tassles! And strippy edges too!  I hope to be able to add the tassles to the ends of the quilt... Here are the wraps, which I think are cotton and ethnic in design:

Wraps for a quilt by Green Star Quilts
I am thinking about a design, Louise says their house is decorated in a modern style, so I am thinking about that and have been looking through my favourite modern quilting books....
Here is the first idea, a design from No scrap Left Behind by Amanda Jean Nyberg , I am a huge fan of Amanda Jean and this is her new book which I reccommend massively.... I have drawn out the design in the colours of the wraps:


Green Star Quilts drawing
The second idea would to weave the fabric colours in a similar way to this picture from 
Modern Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman, another brilliant modern quilt maker who writes really good instructions too.
Modern Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman,
The third inspiration comes from Quilting Modern by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pederson

Quilting Modern by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pederson
Big blocks of colour in randon sizes and colour combinations. I hope to use the patterned edges of the wraps too, amybe around the edges of the quilt.

Well, what do you think? The fabrics are quite loosely woven, so the design can't be complicated and I want it to look modern.... any ideas welcome from my lovely internet blog friends...

Have a good week quilting, maybe reading, or working, lots of gardening, looking after your families, cooking, thinking , oh not much time for thinking.... and I keep telling myself, try not to worry so much about things going on in the world,

Kindest regards,
Sue 








Sunday 8 October 2017

Back to work in the sewing room

Church at Tjeldsund, norway
I have had such a wonderful time this summer. Beautiful younger daughter got married in this church in the Lofoten Islands, Norway and now I have a new son-in-law who we all love very much. In fact I love having boys in the family all together and acquiring them via my daughters is a huge delight for me!
The sun shone and the dress was perfect.... we did the buttons up with a crochet hook..... 

wedding dress with green ribbon
In Norway there is a big tradition of a cake table at the reception. This is a brilliant idea and I intend to embrace it at every party we have! This is a camping scene cake:

Wedding cake with Playmobil
Now I am back to normal and thinking about the next quilts to make. I have found it hard to get started so I decided to make a few small quilts for Project Linus UK to get my quilting skills back up to scratch. These quilts give such comfort to children in need of an extra cuddle and are so worth making. Here is the first one:

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
And some close ups....

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
I love the backing fabric with princesses and unicorns, it is called Bloom by Clothworks...

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
This is the next one:

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
It is a woven style pattern which I have been wanting to try for ages....

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
It was a good one to try out free motion quilting too...
Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
This the label which is sewn on all Project Linus UK quilts before they are given to the children.

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
This is the third quilt, I used the diggers material as a whole metre of fabric as the pictures were too good to cut up! I added two strips top and bottom to make the quilt a bit bigger, then quilted all over in grids and squiggles. The backing fabric is a recycled Ikea duvet cover.

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
The next one is a small cot size, using simple 2.5 inch squares of scrap fabrics:

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
I love the owls' expressions of slight surprise :

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
Last one, using a pattern from Sunday Morning Quilts  by Amanda Jean

Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
Just some gentle hearts and curls on the quilting:
Patchwork quilt by Green Star Quilts
While I am waiting for fabric to arrive, I am trying to tidy the sewing room and finish more half started projects, ahhhh the horrors I have under the sewing table in a big box..... all coming to light now!

 
Confetti, lavender and rose petals from our gardens
And the church again because it is so beautiful and we had such a happy time.....

Tjeldsund church, Lofoten Islands, Norway
I'm very glad to be back, sewing blogging and reading all your blogs too,

Happy autumn quilting,
Kind regards,
Sue