Pamela’s most awesome quilt

Pamela won the Best In Show and 8 awards for this quilt at Victorias biggest quilt show

Just awesome!!! Pamela is in our Seabeeze quilting group

Congratulation

Painting on Vlisofix

Our quilting group runs fantastic technique workshops run by our members – a great way to share skills (www.seabreezequters.com)

We had a lot of fun with this simple technique

It’s very easy
1 mix a bit of Fabric Medium into acrylic paint
2 Paint the glue side of the Vlisofix (any similar product would probably work)
3 Let it dry
4 cut your shape out
5 Iron onto your background fabric
6 Peal off backing paper and you are left with the paint

You get very crisp edges and no colour bleed – not very washable and you wouldn’t want to put a hot pot on it (glue might melt!!)

Kim also experimented with a gauze or organza on top – looks great and minimises the glue melting risk!!

Here is my first play attempt

Hash Tag – a quilt

There were lots of great names suggested – thanks so much for all the great ideas.

Being a modern quilt and the design a ref to Twitter seemed appropriate so the name is “hash tag – a quilt”

Here is it all finished …

Quilting doodles

I like to practise quilting designs by doodling – it gets the design into my muscle memory and I have a better chance of recreating it using my sewing machine!!
Here are some of the patterns that I used on the last quilt – I’m not sure how well you can see the quilting as its white on white!!

Quilting done

Ok I’ve done the quilting. I actually really enjoy the quilting process (although if I want something special Natalie does a great job at the Quilting Bug)

I’m quite please with the result – not too much backwards sewing!!!
I did a different design in each white patch… Feathers, spirals, leaves, wood, paisley, squares, little flowers and of course stipple

Hopefully you can see the quilting in these pics!!

I need a name…

I need to name this wall hanging – it will be about 1m square and I used one of my fab designers (Kaffe Fascet) in it.
I made it simple and modern as its for a charity auction for ANZ Foundation that do great things.
Any ideas????

Echo flower shawl

This has been my train project for the last couple of months. I love the time too and from work – it’s my time where I can do something fun and ponder the day.

Although this Echo Flower shawl was a little too complicated for train knitting. It’s a free pattern – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/echo-flower-shawl

Don’t look at the mistakes – instead look at the lovely yarn that Wendy found for my birthday!!

Here is a pic of it blocked out and completed

Pineapple log cabin – update

Hm vastly underestimated how long it would take to make these!!!

For the quilt there are 80 six inch blocks. Each block has 37 pieces…. So that’s a total of 2960 or so pieces …

Hm I need to find a way to speed up the process… A bit of a production line is needed.

Here is a pile of 80 blocks ….

Pineapple Log Cabin

Last Saturday was our quilting group – Seabreeze quilters. The lovely Ursula had some foundation piecing papers. My youngest (7yrs old) chose the Pineapple Log Cabin papers.

I’ve always wanted to do a full log cabin and I love the pineapple variation. I love a new technique and while I’ve done some foundation piecing but not a whole quilt. This quilt is made up of half inch pieces

Here is a pic of the paper and my trial piece.

Round Robyn – stars

The next border was stars – and this had the most beautiful batiks

I think I underestimated how long it would take to do these 8 blocks
– a night to cut out – why does it always take so much longer to do this than you think!!!

– 2 nights to piece

– 1 night to trim and place in the border

I really loved doing this block though