I made this quilt last year using shot cottons and a pattern from Kaffe Fassett’s Shots and Stripes. I love the colours and the feel of the fabric. I backed it with lengths of shot cotton.
A rail fence quilt
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Colour daze quilt
This quilt started off a few years ago as a double bed quilt top, but I really hated the final colours and design and couldn’t bring myself to finish it. Last month I retrieved it from under the bed, unpicked the blocks, and recombined them. The centre is a cheater cloth panel from the same fabric range, Colour Daze by Laundry Basket Quilts. The quilt is backed with a combination of a blue William Morris print from Barbara Brackman and French General’s Bon Voyage.
A Kaleidoscope Quilt
This quilt, made from Liberty prints, is based on a pattern called ‘wheel of mystery’ in issue 66 of Today’s Quilter. It’s the first quilt I’ve made using a special ruler to cut the isosceles triangles. I’m pleased with the end result, although I wonder whether I should have added a bit of colour to enliven the greys of the quilt top.
A stained glass quilt
It’s been over a year since I started a new project and this is the first quilt I’ve begun and finished since lockdown started in March. It was originally going to be scrappier, but in the end I restricted it to all the blue Liberty fabrics in my collection. The backing is another Liberty print called Imagination.
An underwater quilt
I’ve finally finished a quilt I started last year using leftover fabric from my Fancy Forest kit. It’s based on another Elizabeth Hartman pattern called Awesome Ocean. I’m really pleased with it, and I have enough fabric in the red and yellow colourway to make another. The backing fabric is a Kaffe Fassett print called ‘fossil’.
Face masks
I haven’t posted here for a while as I haven’t done any sewing since 2019. But now halfway through 2020 in a completely changed world, I’ve taken out my sewing machine again to make some face masks.
I used this pattern from the New York Times but started with a square of fabric 6.5 by 7.5 inches, as 9.5 inches was too wide. I also inserted some wire between the two rounds of topstitching, using the opening I’d left when turning the layers right side out. Getting the length of the elastic right took trial and error but the final length was 6.25 inches.
Making the masks made me realise how much lovely fabric I have and now I’m eager to start sewing something more cheerful.
Liberty scraps
Liberty lawn has such a high thread count that it doesn’t easily fray. This means that even the tiniest scraps can be reused. Last year I started making rectangles from all my leftover pieces of Liberty, and I’ve finally made them into a quilt.
If you look closely at the picture below, you might see some queue for the zoo fabric.
Blues and greens
This quilt arose when I was sorting through a box of plain fabrics and came across four fat quarters in various greens and blues and lots of yellow scraps. The back is a print called shanty town by Brandon Mably. I’ve been wanting to use it for a while but it had seemed too dark for a lot of projects; however, I think it complements the yellow binding well.
An anniversary quilt
I made this quilt some years ago as a ruby anniversary present for my in-laws. It mainly consists of French General fabrics and some beautiful Lecien prints from when I first started quilting. I hadn’t seen the quilt since the anniversary, so it was a nice surprise to receive a picture of it in its new home.
Woven stripes
The starting point for this quilt was about 40 rectangles of Kaffe Fassett’s woven stripes fabric. By cutting and recombining the striped pattern you can make striking designs.
The blocks in this quilt are made from half-square triangles, but you can combine the fabric further to make more complicated patterns.
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