Whoever said "Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road" wasn't making this pattern.

But let's start at the beginning.

Quilt designs for Spring, with the Tulip Patch block, the latest Inklingo shape collection! Continue reading →

I love having room to show off quilting motifs, and making the sashing, either pieced and/or appliqued, as the coloured bits of the design with a few scattered blocks can leave plenty of room for quilting.

Love the first design but would replace some of the blocks with blank spaces for quilting. The second design has space for quilting with out any changes.

The first design today is interesting, and would look interesting on a tiled floor, not just as a quilt.

This style of quilt could be called Nearly Wholecloth Quilts, or Not Quite Wholecloth perhaps.

The colouring and design are both dainty and pretty. I like the mixture of pieced, applique and quilted versions of diamond shapes.

I tried to pick a favourite, and the deciding factor was the size of the finished quilt … the second one would be big enough for our bed, but I could always make the blocks in the first one bigger, so it didn’t really help with the decision.

Some rather dull time at the machine piecing the curves, followed by a fair amount of time concentrating hard can bring some interesting results.

I think I would have to vote for the second design as my favourite of these two.

It has been a while since I opened a Patchwork Jigsaw project. Love the border around these designs.

The 1134 in the title is the number I gave the block above which has been twisted and turned to make quite a few assorted over all designs.

Interesting variation in the second design.

It is a tie for my favourite of these three designs, first and last.

Love the border in all of them.

Cheerful colours, interesting design.

This project file was started while demonstrating at a quilt exhibition a few years ago. I selected some blocks, added colours, then started designing quilts. Spent more time talking to friends old and new than concentrating on playing with the blocks, but did spend some time talking about the Electric Quilt program and what is can do with those who wanted more information. I know at least one of them is now using the program.

All of the above plus some quilting!

I like this one a lot.

Second design is ok, I like it but nowhere near as much as I like the first one.

Lovely!

Nice.

This, the beginning of the Capriccioso quilt from Millefiori Quilts 3 that I now think of as the Candy Cane quilt, was one of the projects I looked at and was ambivalent about. Until, that is, I mentioned it to a friend and showed her this picture. She persuaded me that I didn’t want to toss this one.

Particularly since all the little stars for it are done and nestled in this box.

And all the pieces for what I think of as the bow-tie unit are all ready to sew.

So I decided to sew one of the ...

On the Instagram takeover I did last weekend for Quilters Candy Membership, someone recommended the Creative Curves Ruler by Sharon McConnell of Color Girl Quilts. I love curved piecing but have primarily used the Crazy Curves and Rainbow Curves rulers from Elisa’s Backporch Designs. I own the Creative Curves Ruler and a handful of patterns that require this ruler but have not used it, so I pulled it out along with this pattern and took it for a test drive.

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Remember these – the box full of batik sunflowers last seen here in 2017? They have been my focus for a week or so because I decided that I needed to make a few more.

A few? Famous last words. Because this was the result.

Thanks to a blogging friend who had sent me a lovely selection of batiks from her stash, which I had set aside for this project, I have a few really interesting sunflowers to be made. A few? Try 90+. I got carried away and any batik I had that I hadn’t used already for a ...

I love how the points of the star types link to form circles around the two non-star blocks.

In contrast the second design has only superficial links between the blocks.

Back to Basics-Part 1

Oh, my goodness! I cannot believe how long it has been since I posted, but this has been quite a year. Not much has gone according to plan, but I’m still hanging in there and spending a little time in the sewing room. With less time to sew, my priorities have shifted, and I am trying to finish projects and use my stash.

I have a LOT of fabric. Pretty fabric makes my mind spin with possibilities, and it almost always ends up coming home with me. Once in my sewing room, the brilliant plan ...

Love the way the curved blocks are holding hands to create a border!

I like the combination of assorted frames in the second design.

Pastel and pretty.

Less contrast in the second, but I prefer the first design.

I know, I know – it has been a very long time since I blogged. I don’t even want to think about how long it has been. Lots has been going on, but I just haven’t blogged. I’m going to try, once again, to get back to blogging on a somewhat regular basis.

At Christmas a friend gave me a huge set of markers and an adult colouring book. I was hooked immediately! Since then I’ve progressed to coloured pencils and have found that I’m drawn mostly to colouring books that involve floral designs. Big surprise ...

The Island Batik challenge (and blog hop) for June 2022 is New York Beauty.

I received the collection Winter Sky. Designed by Kathy Engle, it should be available in stores now. 

I turned to EQ8 and started designing playing.  I started with a basic/traditional layout.

Traditional New York Beauty?

Modern Interpretation of NYB

Done playing, it was time to get serious. Schmetz Microtex Needles 70/10 and Aurifil 40wt ...

Very, very interesting.

I like the second, but it is not as interesting as the first one!