Apr 05
I started planning this when I had finished my previous patchwork quilt. I have bought the jelly roll at the same time, and love the colours, but wasn’t sure the best way to use them. I googled jelly roll quilts and came across a zig zag patchwork image that I found quite striking, and decided …
Feb 09
Paul has been asking me for some new cushions for our bed for a while. I really loved the colours and effect of the simple patchwork quilt, so thought I would make some to match. Cue a long search on line to try and find the same jelly roll that I had used for the …
Feb 06
I bought this jelly roll when I bought the fat quarters for the 3D patchwork. I liked the colours in it, but it wasn’t enough to do the 3D patchwork I wanted to do at the time. I finally got round to doing something with this, as I need to practise the quilting part of …
Nov 17
After trying free-motion quilting with Ella, I decided to try the stencil approach to get a regular pattern in my quilt. I didn’t think I would be able to do this completely freehand, so stencils seemed the way to go. However, having tried this on a small scale, it is going to be a nightmare …
Nov 17
I love how this looks, but was not ready to quilt it yet. I felt I needed a practice on something smaller before tackling something king-size! This was the beginning of March, before lockdown… it is now November and I haven’t tackled it yet 🙁 Practice quilting coming up…
Feb 25
Putting together the blocks! So far I have sewn 5 strips of triangles together, but not the strips to each other yet. I need to line them all up together first and then fill in the gaps at the end that will be trimmed down. Seams are ironed upwards for one strip and then down …
Feb 25
Construction of a block. This is an ‘A’ block for my pattern. It will point to the right, with the light colour at the bottom. I start with a pile of the 3 fabric trapeziums (in light, medium and dark), and triangles. First align the triangle, right sides together to the right of the ‘light’ …
Feb 24
This is a major project!! I have been meaning to make a patchwork quilt since we bought our bed 4 years ago. In the showroom the beds had lovely patchwork quilts on them. I did attempt some patchwork then, but have never had the inspiration or time or patience or inclination to do a full …
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