Quilt As You Go All Finished - Well Almost

Quilt as you Go

I've just finished my Lynne Edwards Sampler Quilt. I really like it.

We did use  a few non Lynne Edwards blocks. Just because I liked them.
I intend doing some hand quilting in the sashing. But that can wait a while.

Meanwhile here are some pictures.

Sampler Quilt 

I made twenty blocks.

This is the back of the quilt.

I used up all my scrap pieces to make the back.

Close ups of the quilting - back view.

Close up of some patterned stitching I used for quilting.

See the black blur/smudge at the bottom of the quilt?

That was my new kitten Sparky darting across the quilt!

So it looks like Daisy and I have a new apprentice to help us quilt.

Quilt As You Go

This project used Quilt as you Go joining. It's a lovely way to work as each Block is complete including Quilting before being joined together to make the whole Quilt.

More about Quilt as you Go

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Talking Quilts

I wanted to let you all know that The Quilters Guild of the British Isles Talking Quilts Project is now live on-line.

I was involved both as an Interviewer and an Interviewee  (is that a real word?)

Here are a few pictures of my YK2 Quilt which I was interviewed about.

The link below will take you to the  Wales page which is where all the interviews I took part in are.

You can either read or listen to the interviews and look at pictures of the quilts.

http://www.talkingquilts.org.uk/interviews/wales/

ENJOY!

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Finishing Off - Binding your Quilt

Quilt as you Go 

Quilt Binding 

As our Sampler Quilt Blocks  have all been made and we start stitching them together, our thoughts turn to finishing our Quilts. And that involves squaring off, making the binding and attaching the binding.

All these Quilts were made using the Quilt as you Go method. 

Find out more about joining Quilt as you Go

Sampler Quilts 

Below are the first three finished Quilts.

Then scroll down to the bottom of the page to see my three videos.
 1. Squaring a Quilt.
 2. Making Quilt Binding.
 3. Attaching binding to your Quilt.

                               Heulwen' s Sampler Quilt

Mary's Sampler Quilt

Yvonne' s Sampler Quilt

How I Square Up A Quilt 

This first video shows how to square up your quilt.

Marking Quilt Bindings

This second video shows how to make quilt binding

Attaching Your Quilt Binding 

And this third one shows how to attach the binding to your quilt

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Making a Block Keeper

A few people have been asking how to make my Block Keeper.  So I thought I should repost a link to my Video Tutorial.
First some pictures of said Block Keeper.

Sew - here is my Quick and Easy Block Keeper Video Tutorial

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Quilt as you Go 

Sampler Quilt Blocks

For all of you who want to know how I put together my Sampler Quilt Blocks.  

 This was a good Quilt to make to help my group expand their Patchwork and Quilting skills. 

Each Block was a complete piece of work. With the top wadding and backing and Quilting. This meant we were only ever dealing with a small piece of work.

This Tangled Star proved quite a challenge for many. Even I had to have quiet and really concentrate while making it!

I do like the echo Quilting on this Block.

Nice Socks included with this Block!

The Bow Tie was a lovely Block to make.

I felt mine looked like a Box of Milk, White and Mint Chocolates!

Yum Yum!

And here it is finished and displayed on my sofa.

The Binding

I quite enjoy making and attaching my Quilt Binding. It signals I'm coming towards the finishing line of my Quilt. And what a difference visually once the binding is on a Quilt. Find out how I Make and Attach My Bindings

Quilt As You Go Video

It's a Quilt as you go method which I show in the video below.

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Lions & Tigers & Bears Oh My

Can you spot the mistake? - it's quite a major one. This is what sometimes happens when us quilters get over exited working on a project.

I finished putting this quilt top together and laid it out to consider how I wanted to quilt it.

Um......that's a strange way I've put those colours together I thought. 

Why did I put all the pink on one side of the quilt? That was an odd thing to do.

Then it hit me - I pieced the top in two halves - In my excitement to get the top completed I'd stitched and joined them together the wrong way around - Oh My!

There's no way I'm unpicking it - all the letters have been heat n bonded and stitched down. 

And there is hardly any of the fabric left to make new

So on to plan B

 I did have some flowers I'd cut out earlier and not used. 

I needed to bring some pink over to the left side.

I only had two Pink Flowers but visually odd numbers are better. 

So I'm using a yellow one as well. 

I've placed them so they highlight Lions, Tigers & Bears. 

I was tempted to try and make them into a lion, tiger and bear. But my Better Half told my I was over complicating it.

I'm making it to go in The Wizard of Oz exhibition that Swansea Quilters are putting on in the Waterfront Museum  Swansea as part of

  Swansea Festival of Stitch

August 5th - 19th

http://www.swanseafestivalofstitch.co.uk/

Celebration

I managed to spend some time lately working on my own projects.
I'm making a series based on some of my favourite photographs.  I've always loved taking pictures and the digital age means I can snap to my hearts content.

I'm currently working on five pieces inspired by my photographs. This one was taken in Alykanas on the Greek Island of Zante.  Our favourite spot for a relaxing holiday.  On this visit we were (still) celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

So I've printed out part of the above picture in black and white quick print so I could cut out and use the part I wanted as a template to make the fabric figures.

I kept it simple and used one of my go to work horse fabrics, Osnaburg, to create a piece of Applique.

Which I then outline stitched onto a background fabric.

I added some nice wavy Machine Quilting 

Job Done!

I'm pleased with that. 

It keeps the 'Essence' of the original picture for me.

It's propped up against a larger piece of work called

Over The Edge

But that's a whole other story...

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