Patchwork Quilt

Hi everyone, 

Patchwork is a craft that I love.  I find that having a piece of fabric or needle and thread in my fingers seems to feed my soul.  However late in my work life, I lost my mojo.  While I have a number of quilt tops to quilt, I found that I could not face them.  Recently I started working on another quilt top.  Just sitting at the sewing machine sewing two pieces of fabric together helped me to find confidence again in the process. 

This is one of those quilts that needed to be quilted.  I prefer to quilt my own quilts.  I like to complete the whole process.  For me, a quilt is not about perfection, but about the love that is sewn into a completed quilt, mistakes and all. 

This quilt was made for one of 4 boys.  Now they are adults.  These four quilts have been in the process for a number of years.   Studying and working for a 10 years spell did not allow much thought.  Anyway, the first quilt has been gifted and has gone to Perth.  Only 3  more to gift.  

Patchwork Quilts

Hi everyone, 

I have been busy lately. However it has not been too many cards.

Patchwork is a craft that I love.  I find that having a piece of fabric or needle and thread in my fingers seems to feed my soul.  However late in my work life, I lost my mojo.  While I have a number of quilt tops to quilt, I found that I could not face them.  Recently I started working on another quilt top.  Just sitting at the sewing machine sewing two pieces of fabric together helped me to find confidence again in the process. 

These are the quilt tops that I worked on. 

These two quilts were gifts to my grand nieces in Adelaide.  The first quilt is an eye spy quilt. White fabric is 2 1/2” x 6 1/2”. The coloured is 3 1/2” x 6 1/2”.  The second quilt is a Pat Sloane quilt called Oh My Stars.  I used 1930 reproduction fabrics.  I love these fabrics. I have made several quilts using these fabrics for little girls. 

Blessings

I Spy for No 2 Grandson

Hi everyone,

Something different today.  When our first grandson was born, our daughter-in-law‘s mother wanted to make his baby quilt.  I had just resumed working again.  My comment was, he will obtain many quilts over the years, we don’t need to fight over the first.  

However I did want to make a quilt for him so I made an I Spy quilt that he could use at our place. In those days our second bedroom had our son’s queen size bed in it. So now we also use that I Spy quilt on our bed. 

That bedroom has change and currently holds two single beds. So this one is a single bed quilt.

I started this one a year or two earlier. Grandson No 2 was a little younger and he loved Thomas The Tank, Paw Patrol, Cars, only to name a few. In two or three years his taste has changed.  So I don’t think this quilt is revered has much as previous quilts are.  He has one made with dinosaurs all over it, at home, oh well I cant get it right every time. 

I am confined to the house at moment.  I love his quilt and using it daily.  It has a polar fleece back so very warm on a cold day.

I hope you like something different today.

Blessings

Patchwork

Hi everyone,

I have been a bit slack lately.  While I have been making cards, I have also been quilting quilts.

This one is an example.  This one also has a story behind it. 

Some years ago I made this top and our son suggested making a doona out of it.  So I gave it a go.  Our son and his wife used it for a while.  However it started to come undone.  Yes, that made sense.  I can be a bit slow.  I usually need to have a go and see what happens. It is probably experience.  After all, at the time I couldn't see why not.

Anyway the quilt was returned to me and became one of those insidious UFO'S.  It sat and sat on a chest of drawers among other UFO's. 

Probably thanks to the COVID19 virus, I found time to quilt it. Woohooo. IT IS FINISHED. I need to practice at stipling and this was another practice.  Once I finished, I realised that I didn't fix the two seams that were coming undone.  A bit late now.  If you look closely you will find two names embroidered on the quilt.  I wanted to put 'Love You' but I didn't think our adult son would approve.  When I asked, he said I could have.

Anyway the smile, cuddle and glint in his eyes was worth all the thinking of how this was going to be finished.  Similar to his kid's quilts I backed it with polar fleece.  He fills the cold terribly so he will have something to snuggle into and be warm instantly.

I hope you like this story.  Something a bit different.

Blessing to you

Ian and Leanne’s Quilt

Hi,

For those of you who read my blog regularly, do you remember me blogging about a quilt that was doing my head in.  Well it is finished and gifted.

I asked my brother several years ago, what colours did he and his wife like.  Ian stated neutrals.  So I started collecting neutrals which translated to me as being different versions of cream. Well, I have quite a selection now.  However when I put the fabrics together I couldn’t do anything with them.  There did not seem to be anything different. Whilst there were patterns within the fabric, there was no anything else.

So I started sourcing more fabric.  I went to a huge patchwork shop. I knew if I could not find anything in this shop, there was nothing to be found.  Well I came away with a story of fabrics.  Different shades of blues, greys, fawns with a cream as the sashing between each diamond.

I always wanted to create this quilt.  I have always called this The Jane Austin Quilt.  I'm not sure if that is the correct name though. So Ian and Leanne’s quilt was always going to be this one.

This first photo shows my incorrect placing of the diamonds.  As shown below the quilt is suppose to be a square.  The photo above shows a diamond.  Not Happy.  My mum used to say that you have not made a garment unless you have unpicked it.  Well there was a lot of unpicking on this quilt.

Well the quilt has been given to Ian and Leanne.  They like it, that is the main thing.  I can start another quilt now, with some colour in it.

Blessings

Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Hi,

Today I thought I would share some of my other love, making quilts.  Creating a quilt is a more time-consuming task than making cards. 

These two quilts were wedding presents.   The green one was for my son and daughter-in-law.  If you zoom in and look at a melon, you will see there is a piece of music fabric in each melon.  Our son is a musician.  Green is Steph’s favourite colour and music is Kerry’s passion.   Our daughter and son-in-law chose the same quilt but in their favourite colours.  Carren chose blue, and John chose purple. 

These quilts are called The Double Wedding Ring quilt.  As you can see there are rings intertwining, with no end.  This pattern was a very popular quilt pattern in the Depression.  It was first publishd in 1928.  It continues to be a very popular pattern.  

If you zoom in, you will see each melon has 8 pieces on each side, with pieces at the join.  Lots and lots of curves. 

I hope you enjoy seeing my other crafts.

Blessings.

Golliwog quilt

Several years ago I bought a patchwork ‘block of the month’ pattern for a quilt.  ‘Block of the month’ quilt  patterns are quite popular amongst the patchwork and quilting community.  Well I bought one about golliwogs.  Golliwogs were an important memory of my childhood.  Since the grandboys arrived I’ve collected the Noddy books.  We have some here. Others are at their place.  My sister-in-law also bought me a Noddy that sticks on the window in the car when she went to England several years ago.  Much loved Noddy helps the boys to find Nana’s car in the shopping carpark.  I guess I wanted to create something of my childhood memories for the grandboys.

The picture above is the quilt.  It is all appliquéd which means that each piece is sewn on individually.  So the news boy at the bottom of the picture below has about 20 pieces to make him. Am I mad, or what. 

The above picture shows what I have done.  No much.  It seems that I only work on the quilt while on a cruise with lots of time to myself.  So I have three months of appliqué to prepare and place on the quilt before we leave in a couple of weeks.  

The above picture shows only one month.  So there is a bit of work to complete between working, looking after the grand boys and general everyday chores. 

Our faithful D isn’t far away. 

After we return from the cruise I will include some photos from the South Pacific Islands and I’ll show you my progress on the quilt.

Blessings

Adelaide trip

Hi everyone
Our daughter and I had a lovely time in Adelaide. We enjoy quality mother/daughter time whilst driving to and from Adelaide.  Our daughter is pregnant so questions asked brought back memories of my own pregnancies.

We stayed on the 17th floor of the Stamoford Hotel in the centre of the city.  Something was happening at the footy oval our first night.  It stands out in our night photos.

We walked along the Torrens River

On the way home, we drove through Coonalpyn and saw the silos that were painted. 

Most importantly though, Master V received his quilt.  It is an I Spy quilt that consisted of all things with wheels.  So there are cars, buses, fire engines, trucks, caravans, planes only to name a few. I quilted it with two circles inside  one another, which looked like a wheel.  Our dog, Dash, likes to try the quilt out first. He only has his head on it in this photo, usually it is his whole body, 

 

Here the quilt is proudly placed on Master V’s bed.  I think he loves it. 

 

We are home again now.  The girls are coming over on the weekend for a day of Christmas card making.  So I must make a few examples. 

 

Blessings