Fun Quilts You Can Do Too
It is done! Shadows of Auntie Green – my April Island Batik Ambassador quilt is finished. A few days late, as forecast, but I hope you’ll agree, they were days well spent.
Would you like to see how my Shadows of Auntie Green quilt is coming along?
Well, Taa daa!!!! Here it is so far.
I have been making pretty steady progress on this quilt over the last week since my latest show and tell. If you’d like a pictorial walk through the process, then this post is for you. And perhaps you can help me with a few of the final details……
Continue reading “My “Shadows of Auntie Green” Quilt – a progress report”
My April challenge quilt is still in progress, but I thought you might like to see how it’s going. It’s a William Morris/Auntie Green (con)fusion that has been dragged into the 21st century. Possibly kicking and screaming. But I’m pretty optimistic it is going to turn out ok. 🙂
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……..
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……
Continue reading “A Vintage Inspired Quilt – Looking back, Moving forward”
As an Island Batik Ambassador, my challenge for March was to choose some of the beautiful fabrics they sent to me in February and create something using a technique I hadn’t tried before. So, I decided to give “invisible machine appliqué” a whirl. But in order to try out such an appliqué technique, I needed something to appliqué onto. So I made a dust cover for my Sweet Sixteen sit-down longarm machine. You can read more about that decision process here.
Have you got the same or a similar machine you’d like to make a dust cover for? Or another, oddly shaped machine that needs a cover? Here’s a run down on how I made mine. Hopefully it will give you a few ideas.