I'm so excited! I've been busy working with a couple of local shops to develop some classes and I'm ready and they're ready. First up is a class to make the Broken Cogs quilt at Bon Bon Atelier in Westport. It's a 3 part class on April 9, 23, and May 7th. Cogs is an intermediate level quilt, but if you're a beginner, I'll help you tackle it! There will be homework with this class too. Space is limited, so contact Betsy at 816 756 0855 or pop over to her site to register. I finished the top for the baby version of the Cogs quilt...I think I love it. I'm working on a full/queen size version too! Can't wait to show you that one! Next up is a Improvised Modern Log Cabin class on April 30th at the Bernina Sewing Center in Overland Park. We'll experiment with all sorts of versions of the log cabin. You can pick one and make your own unique modern log cabin quilt. Call the shop at 913 341 6400 to reserve your space. We're gonna have a ball! More classes coming later this spring and summer. Reserve your spot today! June 4 at the Overland Park Bernina Sewing Center - Free Piecing July 30 at Bon Bon Atelier - Free Piecing August 13 and 14 at Bon Bon Atelier - Modern Baby quilt (Beginning quilting) With Love to Japan! Thank you so much for your support for Japan and the Red Cross. We're over $2000 in donations so far. I'll draw a random number on Wednesday to determine the winner of the quilt. There are many ways to help. Elizabeth is doing the same on her blog with her fabulous Tokyo Subway Map quilt and Merumo emailed me that she's gathered some friends and they are collaborating with their own effort. Check it out and help if you can!
When you first lay eyes on this quilt, it might seem like a total puzzle, especially if you're just starting out. But guess what? Once you've got the hang of piecing it together, you'll realize it's a total breeze.
We gaan het weer doen, met elkaar werken aan een groot project. We komen maar liefst 12x bij elkaar. In deze quilt wordt veel geappliqueerd en zitten de randen vol met english paper pieces. Bij de workshop inbegrepen ziin de stoffen voor de ondergrond, het patroon en elke keer dat je komt 2x een f8th naar keuze. Met aanmelden voor deze workshop betaal je direct de eerste les. De overige lessen worden per keer in de winkel afgerekend. De lessen worden op ZATERDAGOCHTEND door Judith Ebbelaar van 10.30 tot en met 12.30 uur gegeven. 15 febr, 7 mrt, 18 april, 9 mei, 18 juli, 22 aug, 3 okt, 28 nov, 19 dec, 16 jan 2021 , 20 febr 2021 en 13 maart 2021
"Summer Fun" by Marina Landi won First Place - Wall Quilts: Stationary Machine Quilted at AQS Quiltweek 22 in Paducah.
I am finally adding a few new pieces to my Etsy shop, and I think these would be great for Easter! Several crosses, set upon vintage watch faces and text from old Bibles seem perfect for the season ~ This one has background text referring to the resurrection on Easter: "believed" and "the third day" peek out from beneath the other elements. I also added a couple of necklaces with prints from my angel paintings. This is one I haven't featured before ~ The back of the pink angel pendant reminds us to "be joy-ful" The back side of another cross pendant has another great reminder that we are "blessed". Love how the word "Halleluja" is visible on the antique German text in the background. I'm so happy that Spring looks like it is finally here: trees are budding, bulbs are poking up, and the sun is shining!! "Blessed" and "Joy-ful" are perfect words to describe how Spring makes me feel!
When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how
At UQSM I learned about Days for Girls https://www.daysforgirls.org which is a wonderful organization that provides education and fem...
Tilda Sewing By Heart cover with patchwork pumpkins These fresh quilts and sewing projects from Norway are ADORABLE! Tone Finnanger is the founder and sole designer of the internationally recognized Tilda brand, which she started in 1999 at the age of 25. She was at the 2017 Quilt Market in Houston, TX and won "Best Newcomer." Bumblebees quilt on left. The book features 7 full-size quilts plus smaller sewing projects such as pillows, pincushions and soft toys. All the projects use the Tilda fabric lines including Cabbage Rose, Bumblebee, Circus, Harvest, and Cottage lines. You can view the fabrics at https://www.sewandso.co.uk/category/saq-tilda-crafts-tilda-fabrics?TRE00049. Sewing From the Heart is the first Tilda book in English. Expert technical editing from Linda Clements, bestselling author of The Quilter’s Bible, offers in-depth instructions. The photographs are gorgeous and the book is filled with illustrations showing construction and fabrics used. The instructions are detailed. There are 21 pages for The Bumblebee Quilt, 55" x 73," including: multiple full and close-up photographs of the quilt swatches of fabrics used and yardage chart preparation and cutting instructions overall quilt layout illustration cutting instruction with illustrations block construction instructions with color illustrations border construction with illustration and assembling and finishing the quilt instructions I love love love this soft fox The patterns have some unusual methods. For instance, the stuffed Santa doll's legs are made with pieced fabric. To construct, one sews the various widths of fabrics into one unit. The leg pattern is laid over the pieced unit, traced, and cut with seam allowances. Each leg has two pieces which are sewn and turned. Projects include Bumblebee Quilt, pillows, pin cushion, and stuffed bees Flower quilt, pillows, and fabric flowers Circus Quilt Tree Pillow Applique Elephant quilt Cabbage Rose Quilt Patchwork squirrel and rabbit stuffed animals Birds and Sunflowers quilt and pillows Patchwork Fox stuffed animal Pumpkin Harvest Quilt and pillow Patchwork Santa and stocking Cottage Quilt Visit the website at https://www.sewandso.co.uk/product/tilda-sewing-by-heart/402389 I received a free ebook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review. Tilda Sewing by Heart by Tone Finnanger F+W Media SewandSo ISBN: 9781446306710
Welcome to the Shabbilicious Friday Link Party Come on in and be inspired… visit friends or share your own link-ups. This is the place we come to each week to share all that is We love anything pretty like romantic cottage, shabby chic, vintage, farmhouse, transformations, decorating & DIY, room reveals, vintage finds, French inspired loveliness, yummy recipes . . . and anything else that will make our shabby hearts sing! The big news this week at Shabby Art Boutique was the arrival of more Tilda stock into the Boutique… although a lot of it sold out quickly. …still got
Leota sent this photo, telling me she couldn't find the pattern in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. I couldn't find it in there either. It looks like a simple fan from the 1930s or 1940s but the ends of the spokes are curved inward rather than curved outward. Look at the corners where the blocks meet. The curved white shapes make a complex secondary pattern. And Mary L. sent this one. Should be on page 469: "8-Pointed Stars with points oriented up and down." But it's not. And here's the worst of all. I can't believe I can't find the design below. Jessica sent this one. I couldn't find it in either my Encyclopedia of Pieced Patterns or Encyclopedia of Applique. It seems so common...but... BREAKING NEWS: On Tuesday the 5th, Tim writes to say that the pattern above IS in the Encyclopedia of Pieced Patterns. #3629. It's drawn with the pointed blades a little short but that is it. Here's the BlockBase sketch. It was published by Hubert VerMerhren's pattern company (sometimes referred to as the Home Art pattern company)under the name Friendship Circle and also in Successful Farming magazine as Dresden Plate. Both were 1930s pattern sources. Thanks to Tim for looking in the right spot. I am guessing that the top two designs came from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicated pattern column. The clues are the sophisticated geometrics that result in secondary patterning where the blocks meet. These look like the work of professional designers rather than quilters recording the folk art patterns they grew up with. That style is very typical of the Wheeler/Brooks columns in the 1930s. The column was so popular that I know I haven't indexed all their designs. A few years ago I wrote a book called Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper. Here's some of what I wrote about this pattern source: About 1933, a new quilt pattern feature began to appear in the Kansas City Star. Readers found smaller columns advertising patterns that could be ordered through the mail. A drawing of a patchwork quilt and a paragraph of description were followed by a last line reading “Send 10 cents for the pattern to The Kansas City Star, Needlecraft Dept., Kansas City, Mo.” The Star forwarded orders to a pattern source in New York City that went by a number of official names. Quilt pattern collectors know little about this company, which was formed as Needlecraft Service in 1932. The name was changed to Reader Mail in 1944. Over the years, they’ve offered patterns for all kinds of needlework including crochet and clothing. Reader Mail is now located in Michigan and continues to offer syndicated advertisements in newspapers around the country. [It may be gone now.] In some newspapers (their patterns appeared in hundreds of papers in the 1930s) the column ran under the names Laura Wheeler or Alice Brooks, fictional columnists who gave a personal touch to the feature. The Star patterns printed before World War II used no byline, so pattern collectors have learned to recognize the Needlecraft Service designs by their distinctive drawing style, which featured detailed calicoes in blocks drawn side by side to emphasize complex secondary designs. Many readers were attracted enough by the lovely drawings and the innovative designs to invest their dime in “stamps or coin, coin preferred.” The pattern that arrived a week or so later included a detailed schematic drawing with suggested yardage on a sheet of tissue or newsprint about 15 by 20 inches. These patterns were neither feature nor advertisement, but something called a “reader service feature.” Newspapers subscribed to the feature, knowing that readers, especially rural readers, enjoyed the opportunity to order fashion and crafts by mail. The paper and the pattern company shared those many dimes. See more about this newspaper column in an August, 2009 post on this blog by clicking here: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/08/laura-wheeler-patterns.html I learned most of what I know about the Wheeler/Brooks syndicate from quilt historian Wilene Smith, who has started a new quilt history webpage called Quilt History Tidbits. Click here to see her page on Laura Wheeler and Alice Brooks. http://quilthistorytidbits--oldnewlydiscovered.yolasite.com/laura-wheeler-and-alice-brooks.php And bookmark the site. Fans of quilt history will love her detective work. http://quilthistorytidbits--oldnewlydiscovered.yolasite.com/ For more information about Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper, click here: https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=441 You can buy the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns from the EQ website which sells BlockBase, the digital version. The book version has OVER 4,000 PATTERNS. Just none of the above. http://www.electricquilt.com/Shop/BlockBase/Encyclopedia.asp
Welcome to the 24 days of Christmas ! Each day this month, up through Christmas Eve, we'll feature a work of fiber art that reflects the jo...
Scrappy Desden Plates combine with floral applique in this pretty little wall quilt.
The blocks for the Pineapple quilt my husband is making me make (😊) are coming along slowly and I'm okay with this. There are several othe...
Petite visite de l 'intérieur de l'atelier .. avec ma version du patchwork mystère et beaucoup d'autres choses encore ! Voilà ce sera tout pour les Portes Ouvertes ! Et vous pouvez désormais voir les dates des ateliers Ici.
....will soon be available. I've spent an enjoyable week end stitching on a new table mat for your valentines decorating. It has been so enjoyable I've had a difficult time putting it down. How I love the wonderful shading of the hand dyed wool. It especially shows up in the red star in the center. I've used a herringbone stitch on attaching the center star. I thought this mat was a great transition from Christmas through February. A little closer look. And now the quilts from the Houston quilt show continues. Isn't this a sweet happy quilt? And that is just what Barbara called her quilt! A spectacular piece of art. Tel - Aviv Symphony.....and yes, they certainly did achieve great results. From Spain comes, Stairs in Perspective. Quilts have meaning for their makers. From Australia, Fiona shares Raspberry Roses. Lovely! A dear Jane quilt always makes a quilt show complete. An heirloom and an amazing accomplishment. Quite an amazing quilting journey. Karen didn't know about starting at the beginner level....:-) I'm certain it will be a treasure for her daughter. Little scraps of cloth used for amazing results. A gorgeous quilt.....I saw this one a far off and was drawn right to it! I've made this sunflower block, but the flying geese really is a marvelous addition. Yes! The scrappier the better. The star sashing is just perfect in this quilt. I love the Feathered Star......I just really do love stars! A memorable exchange! It really does look like an antique quilt. The dark background really sets off this quilt. I've always loved the Album block. It makes for a terrific signature block. This quilt was love at first sight! I love the color and the design. Just lovely and so unique. I can totally understand about the trees. This block has also been on my to do list! What creativity to separate them with the log cabins. We've had some beautiful snow fall, but I'm continue to wish for more. I'm having a hard time being satisfied! I find myself nostalgic for the snow falls of years past. And this brings me to my quote for the day. "Layer upon layer of soft packed snowflakes settle in near silence, forming a quilt of feathery ice crystals." - Rebecca Nichols Alonzo
I thought I would show you some of the scrappy Sunnyside Up blocks that I've been working on. This is such a fun Dresden Plate block to...
Build a sandwich or a burger with this paper toy kid craft containing 20 different items to create your favorite sandwich. Free printable kid activity.
Embroidery patterns, before and after projects, give-aways, chalkboard doodles, a bit of this and a lot of that!
Pattern Designer: Chelsea O'Hayre, Lisa Hawkins, Sandra Smith Pattern: Queen of DiamondsSKU: QODNIGHT-KITSize: 60" x 73-1/2"Technique: English Paper Pieced Note: Pattern and paper pieces are not included and must be purchased to complete this kit. You will also need the Focus Hexagon template and paper set, found here. Kit includes Cutting Assistant to show fabric placement, just like all our kits.
