Earlier this year, some of our Tasmanian MQG members got together at one of our sewing days and started putting blocks together for our raffle quilt. One of our very dedicated members (my friend Lauren) then put the rest of the blocks together. We worked together to piece the top - and then it was handed over to me for the quilting (which I finished back in April). We made this quilt using a bundle of Kona solids, and Carolyn Friedlander's fantastic Aerial pattern. The blocks are all paper pieced, so it was the perfect choice for a group quilt in terms of making sure the blocks were all the same size. It went together like a dream! It took me a while to decide how to quilt this one, but I knew I wanted to keep it fairly simple since it's such a dynamic and complex design. I ended up deciding to quilt in the ditch in all the seams in each block, and then chose one colour within each block to do some free motion organic straight lines. I think it works really well - the texture is really lovely without distracting from the complexity of the blocks. I used coordinating Aurifil thread for all the quilting - my healthy thread stash certainly came in handy ;o) How to quilt the borders had me stumped for a while - but I ended up extending out the 'fractured' lines within the blocks, and then filling in the spaces around them with some swirls and a couple of feathery designs. It wasn't until I quilted the last border that I discovered what I should have done across the whole border - rather than extending the line and echoing it at an angle on both sides (as in the photo above), it looks much more effective where I've just echoed one side (as in the lower area in the photo below). I'm still really happy with how this one came out, but it was a really great learning experience and has given me ideas for how to quilt future projects :o) We are currently selling raffle tickets for this quilt, and the winner will be drawn at the Craft and Quilt Fair in July. The money we raise will be going to a support a sewing program at our local Women's Prison. I am thrilled that we are supporting this program - I know so many people (including myself) who have found sewing and quilting to be amazing therapy when going through difficult times in life. If you are interested in purchasing tickets, please contact us at tassiemqg at gmail dot com. xx Jess PS stay tuned for my MisDirection pattern release later this week! I can't wait to show you my amazing testers versions.
During QuiltCon 2020, I created a number of Instagram posts of quilts grouped by various topics. That process really helped me to think about how I was experiencing my first QuiltCon and the amazing wealth of quilts. But it also takes a lot more time and energy than I’ve had at QuiltCon 202
Spotlight at 40 Quilt
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
Mock up for new scrap quilt blogged: ivyarts.wordpress.com
Looking for a quarantine craft to keep you busy? Why not try one of these gorgeous modern quilt patterns!
I’ve been working for the last several months on a new set of quilts with a very different aesthetic than I’ve used in the past. Sometimes these experiments don’t really turn into…
Take a peek at a few beautiful quilts we've been crushing on lately!
Am Anfang ist immer eine Idee oder eine Person der man was aus Dankbarkeit schenken möchte oder eine Kombination aus beidem... Bei diesem Quilt war es die Dankbarkeit für die Hilfbereitschaft meines Schwiegerpapa's. Ohne ihn würden unser Auto und auch meine Maschinen in meiner Buchbinderei nicht mehr funktionieren. Daher war es eigentlich schon lange an der Zeit für ihn einen Quilt zu nähen. Die Farben waren schnell klar. Blau und Grün... Das passt auch zu dem Quilt, den die Schwiegermama schon einige Jahre zuvor bekommen hat. Die frischen Farben aus der Blueberry Park Serie von Karen Lewis fand ich sehr passend, auch wenn auf einzelnen Stoffe weisse Blumen drauf sind. Die Schwiegermama liebt Blumen und hat auch überall in der Wohnung immer frische Blumen stehen. Daher finde ich geht dies auch für einen Männer-Quilt... In diesem Fall jedenfalls... *zwinker* Mit Hilfe des Super Side Kick Rulers von Jaybird Quilts habe ich Dreiecke zugeschnitten und nach dem Muster des Boomerang-Quilts zusammengenäht. Ich habe das Muster etwas abgeändert und noch weisse Streifen zwischen die einzelnen Rauten plaziert, damit der Quilt es luftiger wird als die Vorlage... An meiner Design-Wand habe ich alle Dreiecke aufgehängt und mal ein Foto gemacht. Das Foto hilft mir zu sehen, ob irgendwo ein Block oder in diesem Fall eine Raute umplaziert werden muss oder ob es stimmig ist... Bei zusammen nähen habe ich dann bemerkt, dass der Quilt, so wie ich ihn auf dem oberen Bild zusammengestellt hatte, zu breit wurde. So habe ich dann noch ein paar Rauten weggelassen... Mit Hilfe einer Plexiglasplatte hatte ich mir verschiedene Quiltmuster aufgezeichnet und wieder verworfen. Dies war dann das Muster, von dem ich dachte, das wäre es jetzt... Doch nachdem ich zwei Rauten gequiltet hatte, fand ich es gar nicht toll. Es war iritierend, da das Muster auf dem Stoff der Raute folgte und ich dies mit diesen Linie durchbrach. Das war mir zu unruhig und daher trennte ich alles wieder auf... Die Blasenkette rund um die Rauten durfte bleiben, doch innerhalb der Raute musste es ruhiger werden und daher quiltete ich bloss noch gerade Linien im Abstand von 1 inch... Hier hat sich wieder mal gezeigt, weniger ist mehr... Und damit ihr auch mal ein bewegtes Bild von mir seht, habe ich mich bei der letzten Reihe mit dem Zeitraffer gefilmt *lach* Viel Spass bei schauen...! Die letzte Reihe komplett gequiltet... Ich hoffe, ich konnte euch einen kleinen Einblick geben, wie bei mir ein Quilt entsteht... Bilder des fixfertigen Quilts werden in einem weiteren Post folgen... Bis dahin, machts gut iva verlinkt: creadienstag , modern patch monday & handmade on tuesday
There were several favorite small wallhangings but I'll concentrate on the larger quilts for this favorites tour. I have a huge selection of striped fabric so I decided to use a big variety of them as sashing with Kaffe Fassett prints in this favorite quilt of 2015. One of my favorite Martha Negley prints is the border fabric, tree rings. My first X and + quilt was made in 2015. I used both light and dark backgrounds and just kept making blocks until I had more than enough to make this quilt. I played for days at the design wall and eliminated the blocks that weren't working. I love the riot of color in this one. I have never been able to get a good photograph of this favorite large wallhanging. This one hangs in my living room. It is called Many Moons. The blue around it is my grayed lavender living room walls so you can see how far off the color is. This one from 2016 is the size of a baby quilt or could be a wallhanging. I had a plan to cut up a bunch of batiks that I didn't like very well into squares and triangles. Since I love star quilt, my plan was to put the triangle squares and large squares on the design wall and see what happened. It was a surprise when the stars started joining in a diagonal pattern. I loved the top so much I didn't quilt it for years for fear it would leave my house. This 2016 favorite was a surprise. I had made the stars as my nightly sewing, all scraps, and no quilt in mind. One day I was looking through my stacks of blocks and realized the Kaffe fabric 16 patches were the same size as the star blocks. I'm sure the quantity of red plus stars is the reason I love this one so much. The last one from 2016 is my Marcia Derse fabric tall triangles quilt. I love Marcia's fabrics and I love triangles so it's easy to see why I love this one. 2017, a year of so many favorites but this one is at the top of the list. The plaids are all shirting weight and some of them are the Roberta Horton yarn dyed wovens from the 1990s. Others are from yardage purchased over a period of 40 years. The blocks were cut with my 7" Drunkard's Path acrylic templates. I know 2 people who would love to own this one. 2017 was the year I finally cut into all of my indigo Dutch Wax fabrics. I made it modular style which is explained on my blog, click on Modular quilt tutorial on my Label List. This is my favorite 2017 colorwash made with 1.5" x 3" rectangles. I love the irregular shaped light center. I'm sorry but there is a fourth favorite from 2017. I like this one for many reasons, the Marcia Derse background and border fabrics, the Kaffe Fassett yarn dyed stripes for the sashing and the large prints, some of them from 30 years ago. It's all about the fabric for me. The block design came from a Kathy Doughty book. 2018 was a year of mostly wallhangings but this one is a larger quilt. I used the last piece of a lot of the African fabrics in this quilt so it can never be reproduced exactly. This is my third half hexagon quilt and my favorite of the 3. 2018 was the introduction of a new style quilt called Colorburst, not a blend like Colorwash but contrasting colors touching. I created my first larger Kaffe Fassett fabric colorwash in 2018. It has a lot of his early out of print fabrics in it and I really like it. 2019 has already been published on my blog on January 3. Click here to see it. My favorites for 2019 are ones I am keeping whereas a lot of the favorites from previous years have been sold or gifted to special people. I tend to want to hold onto the newest ones for awhile and after I have made some new favorites I can sometimes part with an older favorite.
KaPow! was featured in Issue 27 of Simply Moderne, but if you missed it, you can still make it! It's is a fun-to-make partly paper-pieced modern quilt that packs a punch! KaPow! has just enough challenge to keep it interesting, (Lots of opportunity to learn and practice Y seams, which, believe it or not, are not hard to do and are really fun!) and endless possibilities for using one's creativity, using the fabrics of your choice. Want a bigger quilt? Just make more squares. This quilt is 56 x 56 inches, great for a throw or a wall hanging. It's also scrap friendly - I used almost all scraps in the making of this quilt, but if you don't want to leave it to chance, you can make it with fat eighths. The skill level is listed as intermediate, but really, a confident beginner can knock this out, too. And you can always email me via my website (thezenquilter.com) if you have questions. IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not use fit to page option on your printer - the templates fit on a regular sized piece of paper, but they are larger than the usual margins. If you use fit to page, it will make the templates smaller than they should be. Any copies of KaPow! bought before 4/30/2023 were not the correct copy. I tried to send a corrected version to everyone who bought it, but if I missed you, please contact me at carriewikander [!at] thezenquilter.com and I will make it right.
It is with great relief that I can at last say this quilt, due to be entered into the UK Festival of Quilts, is finished. It’s the first time I’ve made a quilt that will be judge…
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