New Mini Quilt

Today was a whole day in the sewing room - yeah.

So time to start a new project - a series of mini quilts.

They will all be the same size so they can be interchangeable on

the wall.

There will be six of them.

The first one uses these 1800s fabrics.

First up I needed to make six tiny (5") basket blocks.

Then put them in the chosen setting.

I have ditch quilted in the ditch of all the blocks.

Now off to hand quilt.

This is the motif that I will hand quilt in the two squares

and I will use sections of the main block in the triangles.

Back soon.

Mrs Holder Finale

Finally my Mrs Holder Stretched Hexagon Quilt is almost done. 

The corners have been squared off.

Now I am appliqueing the outside hexies onto a small caramel border.

I have made all my corners the same.

Mrs H made hers very scrappy and different from each other.

Somehow that messed with my brain so mine are all the same but 

still quite scrappy like hers.

I love how her quilt started off quite controlled and ordered and the 

further she got out the scrappier it got.

I guess she didn't have a Patchwork Shop to pop into to buy more fabric!

This weekend I got to start a new project - a tiny Trip Around the World 

Cot Quilt for the shop.

I know my other machine pieced project is far from finished, but this 

one for the shop had to take priority!

You can see about half of the cot quilt above. It is inspired by Malcolm's quilts.

It is a new range of fabrics into the shop and we will be making up

kitsets of this quilt soon.

Back soon.

New Quilt Project

This last week has seen the start of a new quilt project.

This is is reproduction of an antique quilt that I bought at the 

Auckland Quiltmakers Show in May.

I am using a range of fabric from my stash and some of the 

recent "Putty and Mortar" range.

I need twenty-five of these blocks.

Some are paler while others have a bit more depth of colour.

Studying the old blocks in the antique quilt has been fun, as 

the quiltmaker who is unknown, has not made them all 

regular like this one. 

Some vary like this - 

- did you spot the odd one out?

Others are even more varied

So they have been fun to make and to wonder why she did this.

Was she running out of fabric?

Or was she being quirky?

Oh if only old quilts could talk and tell their story.