A Two-Faced Pumpkin Quilt Facing Tutorial (and Modern Winding Ways finished)

Modern Winding Ways quilting detail

Modern Winding Ways is finished.

Quilted, faced (invisibly bound) and hung. 🙂 And de-fluffed with several passes of a sticky clothes-lint roller. Crikey, does black fabric show batting lint or what!!?! So, that is it – my June Island Batik Ambassador challenge crossed off the list. Happy days.

If you’d like to follow the whole design and construction journey for Modern Winding Ways, you can find out more about the design stage here and the flimsy stage here. Today we are just going to have a little look at how I finished it. Including a quick tutorial on how to face a quilt, with a bonus little side project.

Two-faced Pumpkin quilt pad/table protector

Ummmmm…. I said “face a quilt”….. not “put a face on a quilt”.

A two-faced quilt?….. sinister…… Or should that be a pumpkin with a face on his back side?…… ? *snigger*

Don’t mind me. Long week, small children. Just roll your eyes and join me for the Two-faced Pumpkin facing tutorial. An easy facing method to make you smile. And if you’d like to make a Two-faced Pumpkin table protector like mine as a practice piece, then be my guest. Everything you need to know is here. The fabrics for both projects featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.

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May 15, 2018January 19, 2024

Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Colour Inspiration Tuesday & Linky Party!

Tiptoe through the Tulips color scheme from Clever Chameleon

Colour Inspiration Tuesday and a Link Party – the party where we inspire each other and the candy is calorie free!

This week has been huge….. on the blog and off! Thank you to everyone who took the time to comment on my New Quilt Bloggers Blog Hop post….. I have now responded to all comments, but there were two email addresses that bounced, so if you didn’t hear back from me, please be assured I still very much appreciated your comment.

And another big thank you to everyone who came to the Chameleon’s first birthday linky party. He was so very pleased…… he turned all shades of quilt!

Quilted chameleons — Can you match the Chameleon to all his guests from last week?

If you missed out on last week’s party, don’t worry, we are having a party every week…… Come on over and join in this week instead! Also today, I have a new border quilting motif you can download, and we will take a closer look at last week’s party guests!

Let’s see if you can get the Chameleon to turn your quilt colours this week!

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April 13, 2018January 19, 2024

A Vintage Inspired Quilt – Looking back, Moving forward

The Island Batik Ambassador Challenge for April is “Looking Back: Vintage Quilts Inspiring New Creations”.

And I am having a ball. The only trouble with looking back as you’re moving forward, is that you can get tripped up…… and end up down a rabbit hole……..

Looking back logo

So, where to begin?

I can’t possibly tell you everything I have explored under the topic “Vintage Inspired Quilts” lately, but it is fair to say that I wasn’t really sure where to start with this challenge. “Vintage” is a category of quilt that I thought I didn’t like very much. When I think vintage quilt, I immediately think “muted, dull, brown”. Which doesn’t agree with me, nor with my idea of batik quilts.

Do you see what I did there?! I said “I thought I didn’t like vintage quilts”. Past tense. I’m doing that a lot lately, with all the Island Batik challenges. It is doing me much good to be gently stretched!

It turns out that there are some very cool vintage inspired quilt creations out there. Even some Australian flavoured ones. Let me tell you about one I have long admired, and then, about my newest quilt infatuation……

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April 6, 2018January 19, 2024

My Best Turned-Edge Appliqué Tips – The Promised Tutorial

A month ago, I was in the “Never! You couldn’t pay me!” camp regarding turned-edge appliqué. Too slow, too fiddly and too unsuccessful. Life is too short!

Create appliqué

But things have changed……

To be honest, you aren’t going to suddenly see stacks of turned-edge appliqué projects suddenly appearing on this blog. The reality is that turned-edge appliqué is still too slow for my everyday use and doesn’t fit a lot of the designs I like to make.

BUT, and it is a big but, I now know a method of turned-edge appliqué that I do find enjoyable and that I like the look of. I can make decent progress on a project using this method. And I can take the required supplies with me on work trips to use in the evenings. I can definitely see some turned-edge appliqué in my future. Likely, one or two special longer term projects.

Would you like to know how I do it? Here’s my method, step by step.

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February 17, 2018January 19, 2024

My One Monthly Goal: Quilt Labels

quilt pile needing quilt labels

Do you label your Quilts? And How!?

How dedicated are you to labelling your quilts? All of your quilts?!

Umm, in all honesty, unless there is an immediate need to do so, I often walk away at this step with a vague intention of “doing it later”. Unless the quilt is facing a show entry deadline, or is to be sold, or something similarly dire. Because there are soooooo many more fun tasks that need doing in my sewing room than adding quilt labels. Yet, I am the first to admit this is silly. I actually think it is rather important to label my quilts, so a lack of labels causes me a mild sense of guilt and regret when I see my otherwise finished quilts languishing in the labelling queue.

This is why I have made labelling the quilts in my queue my One Monthly Goal for February. Moving these quilts on will be a weight off my mind. Although my furry helper will not be so pleased…… unless I put them back on the stack when I am done.