Divide & Dash Quilt Along – Week 5Row 2 ConstructionWelcome back to the Divide & Dash Quilt Along! This week we begin constructing Row 2 by assembling Zones 4 and 5. You’ll combine large and small Churn Dash blocks with our Flying Geese units to continue building the modern layout of the quilt top. This stage is especially exciting because the quilt really starts taking shape
read moreFinally, I have another pattern out in the world! My Catty Corner quilt pattern is available as a pdf download over on my Etsy store now.
It feels like a lifetime ago now, but in early 2017 I travelled to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) on an Ace Camp – what an adventure! Of course, given it was largely a textile trip, I came back with fabrics, specifically shweshwe. Originally shweshwe was only available in indigo – the patterns created with a method of acid discharge – but now it's available in all the colours of the rainbow.
My absolute favourite thing about having the studio in Sydney, was that when I was done for the day, or more likely was really in need of dinner, I could shut the door on the mess and walk away.
Right now, it feels like my entire apartment has become my studio and yesterday, to amuse myself, I decided to take a picture of all the little quilts-to-be piles dotted around the place.
This quilt below for instance, is one I started in Maria Shell's class, but I'm adapting to make a version of my Strip Weave quilt...
