Finished Seed Quilt

Seed Quilt

I finally managed to get out, to take some pictures now the rain has stopped

And what a perfect day to take them.

Although you do get a few strange looks taking the photos!

Anyway the fabric is Echo by Lotta Jansdotter 

5" squares in a 9 x 9 block

Stitched in a spiral pattern

Yellow candy cane bias binding

The reverse shows the free hand spiral stitching

 Laid out flat

Hope you had a great weekend

Kx

WIP Seed Pod Quilt

Seed Pod Quilt

My first attempt at spiral stitching on a quilt.

Quilt is a 9 x 5" squares quilt.

Quite a bit to do, still cotton bits all over, edges need straightening and bias binding added and then cross fingers and stick it the wash!

Sorry after pinning this at 10pm last night, I started sewing the spiral at 11pm, (put machine on a slow walk, as didn't want to vibrate next door out!got half way through had tea at midnight and finished at 1pm.

2 Hours!!! of slow stitching.

I put this away for a few months as I didn't like the too many greys - thought it had no depth, but then last night I had a brain wave and thought the spiral stitching would liven it up a bit, and now I love it. I will be doing more abstract stitching from now on..

I am a away for a couple of days so took this from my phone at 7am, before running out the house!

I will get to finish it Friday Night.

Kx

Make - 8 Pointed Star

The Lemoyne Star

Sewn the easy way, no fussy sewing

(OK I am not a fan of my stripy point, but as I am going to be making another 8 of these for a quilt, I will live with it!)

I have used 5"squares, this makes the star large,

feel free to use what ever size squares you like

Cut 8 White Squares

Cut 8 single squares of patterned fabric

(I have used 8 separate fabrics, you could use less)

Cut all your 8 patterned pieces into triangles

Cut ONLY 4 of your white ones into triangles

Leaving 4 white squares

Now rearrange your pieces

with the four white squares in each corner

(bit of a puzzle, but but fun)

Next taking your middle pieces

sew press and trim as shown

making 4 squares

Taking the outer pieces join each patterned triangle to adjoining white triangle

press and trim

You will now have 16 squares again!

Starting from the top row, sew your squares together,

So now you have 4 rows of fabric and press!

please note your four white corner pieces will be slightly larger,

but I wait till I have finished to trim the edges off.

Last but not least join your rows together

And press and trim

Kxx

Organising........

After six months off from sewing for others, I am rejoining the sewing community with fresh ideas!!

With so much DIY in our house and sewing I need to do for myself, every thing had been abandoned as all I was doing was Working long hours, sewing and sleeping, I didn't see the rest of the world...

Rather than expand on things I used to make I am honing them in, and really have fell in love with my quilt making, loads of things in the pipeline.

Do you like my new (or rather vintage) pigeon hole shelves, cost me a pretty fortune BUT well worth it, now all I need to to do is get hubby to wall hang it.

Now i can see what colours I am short on, talking about colours does anybody else find it hard to get yellow fabrics? the ones that are out they are just, boring!

Kxxx

Blue All Squares

Blue All Squares

My sewing this week has been poor!

I finished the top at the weekend, and have just based it, just need to sew the top to the bottom and add the binding.

It is 9 x 9 5inch squares, should end up about 42" square, perfect for a baby boy!

Kx

A Couple of my favorite things..

I love my red spotty jug

Daffodils in spring

My thrift cup and saucer

And the biscuit tin from M&S

The most expensive tin of biscuits I have ever purchased,

they were divine, but I purchased them for the tin!

Kx

Orla Kiely Inspired

Take some Robert Kaufman Quilters linen

(received these in the post yesterday from USA, and I am not disappointed)

Purchased from freshsqueezedfabrics at etsy

They are 100% quilters cottons, with a printed linen look, wonderful.

They came to $44.00 (£28.00) for the 8 1/2 yards!!

$61.44 (Under £40.00 including delivery).

I thought I would have to pay extra on import duties, but somehow they managed to pass though and land on my mat.

Inspired by this, Orla Kiely

One fab pattern from The sometimes crafter

Retro Flower Quilt pattern

Which I purchased last week, ready to go,

 I will use as a base but turn all the petals in the same direction

To get this ish, which may or may not have black lines

Also will have rounder petals

(but anyway its the inspiration)

The fabrics close up, aren't they just scrummy.

Kx

Finished Candy Floss Pinwheels Quilt!!

Candy Floss Pinwheels Quilt

Finally finished!

Why candyfloss, its just happy, summer, fun fairs, and a yummy sweet shops!!

Made with 48 Pinwheels

Each one in a different pink inspired fabric!

Bubblegum pink spotty binding

from blondesbackyard

All scrummy designer fabrics, some you might reconise

 Just wing it by Momo for Moda, Its a Hoot by Momo for Moda, Soul Blossoms by Amy Butler, Ruby by Bonnie and Camille from Moda, Central Park by Kate Spain are just a few to name.

WIP Pile of Pinwheels

Work in Progress

25 pinwheels (100 quarter pieces)

ready to sew the next step and add to these ones

Kx

Metro Modern Baby Quilt Finished!!

Metro Modern

Half Moon Modern Metro for Moda 

Forgot to post this yesterday!!

33 charm size 5" squares

halved to make 66 and teamed with 66 Kona white triangles

backed in a red polka dot fabric

34" x 34" finished

Finished with Candy Cane red bias binding from my Etsy shop blondesbackyard

Quilt up for sale in my Etsy shop blondedesign

I truly love the primary colours in this range the colours just pop, I will have to stock up on these.

Kxx

A Mini Rainbow of Pillows 'cushions'

Finally finished putting these together, after waiting for the inner pads to arrive in the post,

so I could then get them photographed.

(trying to find a long empty plain wall to do this ended up being a nightmare, sometimes Victorian houses, with pretty fireplaces and no spare spaces, makes me hank after a 1970's super square white box!

No red pillow, as my red stash was low, and no purple, so need to stock up on some of those fabrics.. then the rainbow would have been complete, instead I have a light pink one instead!

Blue 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Blue 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Green 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Green 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Yellow 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Yellow 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Orange 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Orange 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Pink 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Pink 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Light Pink Valentine 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Light Pink Valentine 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Saturday Fabric Stash in Red

Finally received a couple of parcels today,

ripping the plastic off leaving a trail in my wake....

I was really low on my red fabrics, and need to more to be able to make more, as red things always sell, but surprising the % of red fabrics on the market in collections is quite small.

(hint!)

I will try an list all those above in case there is anything you see you that you need

(well we always need fabric)

Starting from the bottom going clockwise

Its a hoot Red oval - Momo for Moda

Antique treasures Vintage floral

Firefly by Michael Miller

Red stripe Bar Harbour Moda

Red 'Feedsack II' collection by Sara Morgan.

Tomato dot Kaffe Fassett

Grannies Treasures Nancy Mahoney P&B Textiles

Red Spot its a hoot Momo for Moda

Scarves Cherryade Sherbet Pips Aneele Hoey Moda

Play Dot Red/White Sherbet Pips Aneele Hoey Moda

Delicate Red fern RJR fabrics

Play Dot Red/Grey Sherbet Pips Aneele Hoey Moda

Scooters Red Play Dot Red/White Sherbet Pips Aneele Hoey Moda

Most of these except 4 are from The Eternal Maker, and are on offer at mostly £1.50 - £1.80 FQ, although you have purchase 1/2 metre.

The others are from M is for Make also fabrics on offer.

Both UK shops.

I also picked up this morning a cotton spotty backing for my Half Moon Modern Quilt

And another couple of FQ spots for my stash (you may notice I can't get enough of spots!)

These come from my local store in Eastbourne Owl and sewing cat.

Now off to baste my quilt top to the red spotty fabric!

Kx

Wow check out this competition

Any kind of swing machine or by hand counts...

Follow the link on the right.

Off to sew my quilt top.

Kx

Design Wall

Half Moon Modern Metro for Moda

This is stuck on my design wall at the moment, after getting my Kona White solid and cutting it up.I was finally able to take my charm pack of the Half Moon Modern, I took out all the greys and one other colour charm square so was left with 33 5" charms, cut them in half to get 66 triangles.

 I keep seeing some colours too close to each other and swapping them around, and now looking at the photo I can see the 2 big red dot fabrics (centre) staring at me!

Once pieced I will add a border (I think as this will only measure approx 32" square otherwise). bring it back to 40" x 40".

Perfect for a small lap quilt or best a play mat quilt.

I will be starting the sewing tomorrow night.

Kxx