"Going somewhere..."

In October, Allie asked us to make ladders for her Quilts Unscripted Bee. She asked that we make blocks that are at least 8" on each side with a ladder going all the way across the block, edge to edge. "The ladder can be curved, straight, leaning, have mismatched rungs, be missing rungs, anything. It can go halfway up the block and make a sharp 90 degree turn. It can be wide at the base and narrow at the top or vice versa." Allie provided the white background fabric and asked us to use choose from a palette of bright ...

In May, E. A. asked us to make two-color blocks that contained the word "hope."

For my first block I chose Kona Cerise and green to make some skinny strip letters. My skinny strips finish at 1/8" wide. I created boxy letters improvisationally, but aimed for the letters to all be about the same height. The letters are about 6 1/2" tall and the block finished at about 12" x 10".

In my second block I chose a much lower contrast color combination with dark purple and dark grey. I improv cut all the pieces for my letters ...

This month Carole asked us to create some improv slabs to use in half of our half rectangle triangles (HRTs) for her, paired with solid black. She provided a wide range of color options: red, blue, turquoise, aqua, yellow, yellow-orange, orange, purple, red-violet, green, and yellow-green. She gave us a variety of Kona and Bella Moda colors in these hues and asked us to avoid pastels and dark shades. I dove into my stash and pulled fabric from some of these colors.

I was immediately drawn to Kona Acid Lime and aqua. In many cases I used small scraps and ...

I’m a big fan of Sam Hunter (website -- IG) so when she put the call out for a community stitching project I opted in. I don’t generally do hand work, but the initial details assured us that it would be minimal and easy to complete.

The prompt arrived and I took a very literal, mathematical approach to it. In the moment, I wasn’t overthinking it at all. I was simply following the instructions.

I mailed my block from San Jose, California read more

Ich habe mir gestern was Gutes getan und bin zum Siebdrucken nach Hannover zu Orike Muth gefahren!

 

Ich weiß gar nicht, warum ich erst kürzlich dann darauf kam, auf ihre Homepage zu gehen und nach Terminen für Siebdruck Workshops zu schauen. Na gut, vielleicht ist es der Tatsache geschuldet, dass ich jetzt doch wesentlich mehr Zeit habe, seitdem ich das Geschäft nicht mehr habe... Alles hat halt seine Vor- und Nachteile. In dem Fall also ...

Ich hoffe, du freust dich auch schon auf den wunderbaren Quilt Along von Steffi @quiltwerke Starry, Starry Night?!

Am vergangenen Wochenende stellte Steffi ihre Planung für den QAL vor - am jetzigen Wochenende geht es um die Stoffauswahl! Und hier habe ich das Vergnügen, dir mit meinen Stoffvorschlägen die Qual der Wahl zu breiten - sooo viele Möglichkeiten!

Das Pattern

Wichtig für dich: das Pattern für den Starry Starry Night bekommt du in Steffi's Shop

Starry, Starry Night - Deutsche

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Als Steffi mich gefragt hat, ob ich Lust hätte, für den Quilt Along Stoffvorschläge zu machen und vielleicht ...

About a year ago I participated in the I Spy book release blog hop by making these two quilt blocks from the book. Each is a paper pieced block in which I chose to use solid fabrics.

It is season 13 of Project QUILTING and as much as I love to participate, I really have been focusing on finishing works in progress. I'd convinced myself that instead of participating in this season's one week quilt challenges by conceiving, starting, and completing a quilt in a week (for each of the six challenges) I would choose a WIP from ...

It's time for a blog update! I have been busy sewing, but have - hopefully temporarily - lost my blogging momentum. Here in Melbourne we've had a LOT of home time due to local lockdown and covid restrictions, and as such I have had much time to sit, sew, and reflect. Some days and weeks have been more productive than others, but there seems to be a light at the end of a slow long Winter. It's almost Summer and it feels like we're heading into the good (and jolly) season. This week I took some time to ...

Last month, Chris gave us the open-ended invitation to play with line in our improv blocks for her. Straight lines and how they intersect, or how they don't. She asked for black background (I used Kona Black) and as many colors as we like (at least two) for our lines, preferably brights.

My lines all vary between 1/8" and 1/2" in width. I really enjoy the look and process of piecing a skinny 1/8" strip. So I started with that.

This first one is about 12" x 12" with 1/8" strips in three colors. Technically ...