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Une étoile est arrivée jusqu'à Strasbourg ... Vous la connaissez cette étoile ... elle fait briller nos yeux ... elle fait briller nos coeurs... Elle est arrivée avec dans sa hotte... Des trésors de toutes beauté.. Des ouvrages de folie... des perles...
I took a tumble nearly two weeks ago, and unfortunately I have hurt my right shoulder. The improvement has been slow, and I needed to get kits cut for the Bits and Bobs project for August. A visiting angel came to my house today and assisted me in making kits, for the Farmer's Market pillow pictured above. My especially dear friend Diane Ward came knocking at my door at nine A.M. this morning. We achieved my goal while visiting non stop......and munching on blueberries, it was glorious! I shared this photo about a week or so ago, it was made by my friend Leslie. I received requests as to who the designer is.......I now have that information. The design is by Jan Kingwell, and it is called Steam Punk. Jan resides in Australia. These are some fun funky blocks which Barbara Peterson is working on. We have a little group of women who meet every month and Barbara is part of that group. This is another interesting quilt which Barbara is working on. Barbara was the over achiever this time when we met. Barbara enjoys doing hand piecing, and this is a block which she just completed......and I love it. It is time for a give away....... who ever would enjoy receiving this bad and the two shirting fat quarters, be the first to contact me @ [email protected] "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles William Eliot
Mary Lou Weidman is an artist. She creates whimical art quilts that tell a story with her painted fabrics and hand stitching.
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I have been in Hexagon Heaven since beginning this quilt about three months ago. I have stacks and stacks of little hexagons cut out and ready to be basted, then sewn into the "flower" blocks. So far I have completed nearly 60 of these units, each measuring just over 7 inches across. I am using pre-cut 7/8 inch paper templates purchased from Paper Pieces . The "garden path" hexagons will be made of the solid green background fabric shown here in my photo. The fun is in combining the prints. I have to say here that I think that I was cursed at birth... As previously stated in an earlier post, I have this thing, this disorder, that compels me to make everything match. Using all of these colors together is not easy for me but when I lay them out all together like this on top of the background fabric, I can see that it's all going to work! I don't have nearly enough fabrics. MUST BUY MORE! These 1930's Reproduction fabrics are harder to find than you might expect. But the good news is that I have been given a number of smaller pieces by generous friends who see me working on my quilt whenever my backside hits something solid. Their generosity is giving this quilt much more fabric variety than I could have managed on my own. I am toying with the idea separating each flower with the little diamond shapes as pictured here, but of course, my paths will be green and the diamonds would be off white. I am asking myself just how many years I want to be working on this quilt? I have not answered that question just yet... since I have other quilts in my head that are begging to be made. All I know is that I am enjoying working on this now and am trying not to think too far ahead. It will be finished, one day... If I live long enough...
Оригинал взят у annavalter в Фестиваль лоскутного шитья в Токио. Аппликация и не только... Пару недель назад я показывала квилты, практически полностью выполненные в технике ручной аппликации и являющие собой ботаническое буйство. Цветочки закончились, настало время ягодок: сегодня посмотрим другие…
........we have been blessed with some rain once again. It is always welcome in this part of the country. I feel so badly about the draught in some parts of the country. We have a visitor next door at our neighbors, and she told me about how they are coping with the water shortage in California......they keep a bucket in the shower to collect excess wasted water which is used for watering plants and for various other purposes. That is called making do! Today is drawing day and the winners are: Angela Armstrong, Linda Donzello, and Carol Gouveia. Please send me your address and your pattern choice and the patterns will be on their way. This quilt took 2 holders standing on the fireplace hearth.....and then it was held sideways. Jan Patek designed this one for girl gang a few years ago. I believe it to be one of her better achievements. She certainly is a talented folk art designer. As you can see, this quilt needed to be refolded. The crease down the center is quite pronounced. If you remember what I mentioned yesterday with not working from just one line of fabric, and mixing some plaids and stripes into the mix, this is an example of that. A close up of the corner.....Maybe it is time to put this back on my guest bed. Another week is flying by.....I will be blogging yet tomorrow, and then I'll be gone teaching for a couple of days. Wish you could all join us in Springville for the classes. They will be Garden Whimsy on Friday and Silent Night on Saturday. Then Silent Night will find it's way to the Buggy Barn show. Wish I could accompany it. Maybe next year. "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be". Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you ever wake up in the morning with your creativity already flowing so much so that you just can't help but let it out? This morning was one of those days for me. The rest of the family and our visiting guests were still fast asleep, I found myself in the studio, put some scraps together and finished Fragments #2 At first I had thought to wrap the back to the front for the binding. But that did not quite look right once the two sides were wrapped over. So I decided to make a scrappy binding for the quilt instead. "Fragments" for AAQI The back I got so excited to finish the quilt that I forgot about the fast finish triangles!!! I guess this one will need rings or a sleeve on the back. I like mini quilts that start out with a few scraps and a whole lot of satisfaction. By the way, did you check out my previous post about the pictures of the Esprit Collection? Here are few more photos from the collection for you to enjoy and get inspired.
At a recent Black Forest Quilt Guild meeting, I (Kara) was fascinated with one of the show and tell quilts. It was made using Atarashii, or Japanese folded patchwork. (You can see pictures of the quilt here.) The method creates a block or part of the block, complete with patchwork, if desired, and batting; similar to a quilt-as-you-go process. I had a hard time finding information about it when I initially looked into it, but I have found some resources that I will share later in the post. Since I was so intrigued by this method, I thought I'd give it a try. Then I realized I didn't have any fabric or batting handy (my stash is apparently still on the boat). Luckily, my friend Birgit's shop is only a block away, and she had a book I could borrow on Atarashii. Off I went to pick up the book and a few fat quarters. Birgit's Book about Atarashii. As this was an experiment to see if I liked this method, this post isn't necessarily a tutorial. For a detailed tutorial, you can check here. This is a great tutorial from Jill at the Quilt Rat, and I liked the way she offered many different variations of a classic cathedral window, which is closely related to Atarashii. One of the variations reminded me of a flower, so that was what I chose to do. I used the book to trace my patterns, as I wanted to make sure I had the proportions correct. The book is written in Japanese, but the patterns were easy to trace and there were quite a few pictures to help with the process. I had to be a bit resourceful, making do with what I had—notebook paper to trace with and an Ikea box for the cardboard—but I was determined to make it work. I assembled all my parts and got started. All my parts ready to go I started by piecing my circle. Drawing my 1/4" seam allowance helped me stitch accurately My finished 3 1/4" circle Once I was finished with the circle, it was time to put gathering stitches, near the edge. Ready to gather. I had cut a cardboard circle, 2 5/8" to use as a gathering template and then proceeded to pull on my gathering stitches so that the edges wrapped around the cardboard. Once it was gathered to my liking, I pressed it to hold the edge and then removed the cardboard. My pressed circle before removing the cardboard. In order for my "leaves" to align correctly, I folded the circle in half, matching the green edges. I then finger pressed the fold. Matching the green. Finger pressing the center fold. I then opened up the fold and marked, with a small mark on the top and bottom. Note the small marks at the top and bottom of the circle. The marks allowed me to align my 1 3/4-inch square cardboard template. Aligned and ready to press I then pressed the edges of the circle over the cardboard. Pressed edges with cardboard removed. I prepared my center insert by stitching a 1 3/4" square, consisting of one 1" x 1 1/4" rectangle and one 1" x 1 3/4" rectangle of white, and one 1 1/4" square of coral. I put a few French knots on the coral and stitched a green stem using a chain stitch from the coral to the point. Adding details. Now the fun part as the flower appears! I put a 1 1/4" square of batting, and then my patchwork square in the center of my folded circle. Please just pretend that patchwork square has the embroidery on it. Then I folded my edges over and pinned them. Ready to stitch! I worked my way around the edges with a small appliqué stitch, starting at one corner. A finished block Just one in this size would be a cute little ornament, but I wanted to see what patterns I could create if I had four of them. So I made 3 more. One version A different placement And one more I settled on the first version and proceeded to attach the four parts in the same way I would if I were English paper piecing. Stitching them together My finished piece! This is just one variation of many that can be done with this basic method. The variety comes from varying the pieced colors of the circle and the square. You can see a lot of different variations here. I will say that I think this method would be easier using larger pieces—I will admit to having to press a couple of pieces into square submission! However, I do think this would be a fun method to pre-prep and take on the go. Let us know if you've tried Atarashii or Japanese folded patchwork and how you liked it. As always, we'd love to hear from you!
De laatste quilt die vrolijk de wasmachine in springt,is de Nearly Insane,ooit in 1870 ontworpen en gemaakt door Salinda Rupp,en Liz Lois heeft daar een patronenboek van samengesteld.(klik eventueel
Vandaag maar weer eens een blogje schrijven. Ik ben vrij en heerlijk aan het prutsen. Zowel aan mijn japanse sprei als aan mijn Atarashii. Allereerst mijn ronde japanse waaierblokje, ik moet alleen de kwastjes nog maken maar moet daarvoor nog even een stofje zoeken. Nog twee blokjes te gaan en de sprei kan in elkaar gezet worden. Ook ben ik nu aan mijn Atarashii bezig. Was lang geleden dus dat was puzzelen hoe dat ook alweer ging. Maar ik ben er uit. De achterkantcirkeltjes liggen aan elkaar genaaid en de goede kanten er bovenop, die moet ik nog even naaien. Je moet hiermee eerst alles uitleggen anders is de lijn zoek. Nu mijn minijanomeetje op tafel en naaien maar. Ik hoop gauw de resultaten verder te laten zien. Als dit allemaal gemaakt is mag ik de cirkeltjes aan elkaar zetten.
What do you think when I say "urchin". Is it a sweet thing or an insult? I've been pondering this as I stitch together this fun new block with Mathew Boudreaux's (of Mister Domestic) Delicious (with a capital D) Loved to Pieces collection for Art Gallery Fabrics. Did you know th
Let's see if I can go through this without being too confusing. First thing is to cut out some hexigons. I made mine out of charm squares...
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I treated myself today to a class with renowned Australian quilter, Brigitte Giblin at The Home Patch in Bathurst. I have long admired Bri...
I met up with some pals at Baltimore Threadquarters on Saturday for an afternoon of sewing. (Hey, there I am sewing!) Marlo and Allison are so welcoming. You really must stop by. As always, I brought way too much to work on. I did manage to chop up my fabric for our upcoming rainbow charm pack swap (this is a pink herringbone from BasicGrey's Kissing Booth Line, leftover from this quilt.) Then I worked on my swoon quilt. These blocks take me forever. I had two cut and ready to sew (even drew my lines to make hsts) and only managed to sew one. One large one. I also sewed two "minis" that will make their way into a sampler for me. So, five down, four to go. I want to have this done for Katie's birthday in July. Always good to have a goal, right?
A couple of nights ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, and, in that semi slumber state when I was letting my mind wander while trying to go back to sleep, I thought of a solution to a puzzle…
Daar is het, onze stand, twee bij twee. Altijd weer fascinerend hoe lege zalen omgetoverd worden tot winkel walhalla's Maar dan moet er nog wel het een en ander gebeuren voor het zover is. Er komen hier veel grote ladingen binnen! NOTIONS! Een meters lange wand, ik heb het geloof ik nog nooit zo groot gezien. Hee, die quilts ken ik! Karen Styles, leuk om haar hier weer te zien. Jammer genoeg is Material Obsession er nog niet! Terwijl ik de auto aan het leeg halen ben, beginnen Peet en Di vast met het ophangen van de quilts. Carol en Megan zijn druk met de boeken, heel veel en nog meer boeken. Een pallet vol! Overleg over welke quilt waar moet komen te hangen. Na wat uurtjes werk heb je dit! "H11" Dutch Heritage Quilts, wij zijn er klaar voor! Laat de dag van morgen maar komen, wij zijn er klaar voor! Quiltmania ook. Smiddags gaan we nog naar een trendy wijk. F*ck everything, Become a Pirate! We moeten er smakelijk om lachen. Tot blogs, Peet en Juud down under Remember; Better finished than perfect!
As I walked my dog down the lane this morning my head was full of images from Instagram. It occurred to me yet again that we all love sharing what we do. Isn't it interesting that we are so driven...
This was for me one of the absolute highlights: Michel Perrier is a french textile collector who hunts the country side for local items. Hard to call these quilts, the support is wool and the embroidery is wool too. The various sizes make them more usable as wallhangings or even table runners, but all of them have a naive and rustic charm. Some of them have been found in central France. That's for today ladies , more to come.....
This is Abigail Pin's, a new pattern featuring both of my new fabric collections (for Marcus Fabrics), Pin Money and Prairie Wovens, Dobbies, and Chambray!! Abigail's Pins is a fun scrappy quilt with easy piecing, available in two sizes...the large quilt measures 82" x 94" and the smaller version is 59" x 71". If you're thinking of attending my classes at Buggy Barn this coming August, this quilt is the project for one of the classes as it will make for a fun class with good techniques to learn. The photo doesn't do this quilt justice (photos never do, huh!). It will be in the Marcus Fabrics booth at quilt market, just in case you're headed there. Please look for this pattern at your local quilt shop, and if you can't find it there, you can order a pattern right from my website. But...please do support your local shop by asking for it there first. I sure hope you like Abigail...I'm very fond of her! The Pins & Needles quilt is also headed to quilt market next week. You may remember I showed some of the blocks in a previous post. Well, here are some photos of the quilt just as my friend Ronda finished quilting it. My friend Debbie (who works with me) pieced this quilt and she did a wonderful job. Again, these photos just don't do justice to the quilt. I think Ronda chose perfect quilting designs for it. Here's a look at the back of the quilt. So, so lovely! Thanks to my pals Debbie and Ronda for lending their talents to making this quilt. Remember, Pins & Needles is a FREE downloadable pattern. Click here to get the pattern for yourself! While these quilts are headed to Spring Market in Portland, OR next week....alas...I am not. I am doing something else that may prove to be just as much fun. I will really miss seeing everyone at market, and seeing all the new stuff, but I'm doing something I've wanted to do for years.....I'll tell ya what I'm up to on Friday!
...and I'm attempting to get Baby Jane quilted AGAIN! I'm going to try to spend 30 minutes working on this most days. And keep her on the machine until I'm done - which I'm pretty sure won't happen. After spreading her out on the bonus room floor, I now know that I have the triangles on two sides plus two of the corner kites quilted, as well as "some" quilting on 48 of the blocks. Seeing that I also determined that it takes me around 15 minutes to quilt a block, I do not even want to do the math... (Be sure to follow the Facebook page for more regular updates.)
Tout le monde avait rendez-vous chez le photographe: pour un portrait de groupe: A suivre... Miss T
Reproduction block with a paisley star by Becky Brown Tintype of a woman in a cashmere shawl, about 1860 What we call paisleys derive from woven cashmere shawls, which originated in India’s Kashmir region, home to soft wools and deft weavers. Vintage British quilt about 1820-1840 Traditional patterns included stylized botanicals focusing on a cone or seedpod shape, seen in the lilac border on the right. This oval with a curled tail was known as the botha or boteh (from the Hindi buta for flower). Textile manual in German from the New York Public Library The botanical source for the boteh design is in some dispute. Some textile historians see it as a pinecone, others as a gourd or the shoot of a date palm, possibly associated with fertility. Portait of a woman by William Powell Frith. Is she wearing an expensive Kashmir shawl or a European knock-off? European factories from Lyons and Rheims to Norwich and Manchester produced machine-woven shawls, but Scotland specialized in them. Pieces made in the west coast town of Paisley earned a reputation as the best. Soon the Kashmir shawl became known as the Paisley shawl and the characteristic boteh shape was called a paisley. The fashion for wool shawls also inspired imitation cotton prints, first known as shawl prints. Mid-19th-century quilters developed a passion for cotton prints that imitated the colors as well as the designs of the shawls. Reproduction with the document swatch from my Civil War Homefront collection. Madder dyes used in wool shawls also worked well with cotton printing processes. The prints were popular for dressing gowns (wrappers) and furnishings for the boudoir so there were many sewing scraps, but the style was so important for quilts that much yardage must have been sold just for patchwork. Vintage block about 1870-1890 One sees these madder-style paisleys in quilts from the 1860s into the 1890s. The high point of the style seems to be the 1870s and ‘80s. Vintage print from the last half of the 19th century Paisley figures were often set in striped sets, which quilters liked for borders and strips and everything else.... Block dated 1875 Vintage print from the 20th century Cone shapes were also set in what textile designers call a tossed set. Paisley dresses from 1968 A serious paisley revival took place in the 1960s; the cones here in a tossed set. Vintage quilt about 1870-1900 Sashing strips include a tossed paisley on the sides and a stripe paisley on the bottom. Paisley from the early 19th century set foulard style, or in a staggered half-drop repeat. Reproductions Shawn used a paisley center as a contrast to a lighter foulard background. Terrific reproduction of mid-century madder style taste. Flying Geese from Nancy's Quilts webpage, 1998. You need tossed sets, stripe sets and foulard sets in your paisley collection Detail of a paisley reproduction by Roseanne Smith Rue Indienne by French General for Moda Three of mine: Striped set, tossed set and grid set Another of my repros in a stripe set. Reproduction star by Becky Brown The dark paisley foulard in the background is from Alice's Scrapbag, my fall Moda collection. The repro is the redder print in the corner. The other is the original. Sales reps are showing this collection to shop owners right now. It's both a paisley and a foulard. And a madder-style print too. Two of Nancy Gere's many paisley repros. Paula Barnes does border stripes and neat stripes. Pam Weeks Moda Collections for a Cause: Charity Jo Morton's Caswell County: Foulards and Paisleys Voila by Jo Morton Border is the Leesburg indienne print below in a different colorway Jo Morton Leesburg Atelier by 3 Sisters A tossed set in colors popular in the 1880s and '90s, a different brown with more green in it than red. More on bronze colors later. Paisleys Gone Wild by Becky Brown What to Do with Your Stack of Stars? Alternate with a Nine Patch. The star is based on a Nine Patch with a proportion of 1:2:1 so a block based on the same geometry goes well. My sewing group alternated stars and nine-patches in our Summer Birthdays William Morris quilt. Summer Birthdays by the Sew Whatevers I found the same idea in Quilts by Katlin, A few years ago Moda's Three Sisters did a Hollywood and Vines quilt alternating the star with a four patch in the middle of the nine patch One More Thing About Paisley Prints Sandra Dallas’s 1995 novel about a quilting club in Kansas during the Great Depression established the name Persian Pickle for the boteh design. I could find no 19th-century references to “Persian Pickle” or anything that didn’t have to do with Dallas’s book. That’s the thing about good fiction—it can make you believe it’s all very real. See a discussion of that name in my post and in the comments. In Russian they called the boteh a Gherkin. http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/04/persian-pickles-and-shawl-prints.html
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It's a fun week for the #BariJquiltalong with Southern Charm Quilts. Enjoy this fun tutorial by Melanie! Thank you for playing along, and don't forget to tag @barij, @southerncharmquilts and #barijquiltalong on Instagram. Also... So you know, Indigo and Aster just started arriving in stores this week. Keep your eyes pe
(that should draw a crowd!) I have another finish to share... "Melbourne Town" is quilted and bound! I had intended to hand quilt this but couldn't find the motivation to get started... So I mach
....Nasty bugs have stopped play this last week... again. One of the casualties was a weekend retreat, which unfortunately I had to cancel.So there's not been much crafting going on. This is a piece I made around three weeks ago when the Lovely Ladies from Quiltesk came to show us Seminole patchwork.It measures around 16x28 inches. I wasn't too keen on the wall hanging design they brought along so as usual I did my own thing...one day I will follow the instructions I used scraps of Kaffe Fassett fabrics and added a few embellishments and a little free style quilting. and there was some fabulous news... The Quiltesk ladies are taking over our one and only local patchwork shop...a shop which previously I had avoided... now I just have to learn to drive out of my postcode!(sad but true... I hate driving!)
