City Cushions

This is the next instalment of the City Series - this time a set of cushions using the shot cottons. 

In fact all the City Series is using the Shot Cottons. 

You can tell how much I enjoyed working with them!

Circle Cushion - the stripes in the circles are pieced.

Don't you love the look of the silky shot cottons.

Half Circle Cushion - I did enjoy the straight line machine quilting using a variegated thread 

from the King Tut range. For those who know me well you will be surprised at the word

 'enjoyed' in that sentence!

Striped Cushion - as the name suggests  this is just a series of stripes made with shot cottons.

I have written a pattern for these three cushions.

Thanks for stopping by,

Robyn

City Circles

This is the second in the City Series of quilts that we took to the Hamilton Quilt Show. 

It is made of the wonderful shot cottons like the City Lights was. 

It is a wallhanging measuring 39" by 48". I machine pieced the background, hand

appliqued the circles and machine quilted it. This was one of the quilts I was working on 

and keeping secret a while back - I hope you like it. This series was a bit different from 

what I usually do, but I did enjoy it - these shot cottons were so easy to work with.

Waikato Show

We are back from a great few days at the Hamilton Quilt and Craft Fair. 

We had a great fun at the show and sold lots.

These are a few shots of our stall focussing on our new look using the shot cottons. 

These are what I have been busy sewing and keeping secret!

City Lights

Lucky Owls

The Stall

City Circles and Tumbling Leaves Block of the Month redone in shot cottons and plains.

Japanese Quilt Block Quilt

My Japanese Quilt Block is making good progress now - I am getting a pieced block 

made most mornings before I go to work and the applique blocks are coming 

along nicely too. This is the latest Treasure Wheel from Susan Briscoe's book.

I did have to make a change so that I had a full purple circle on this block. I wanted four 

Treasure Wheel blocks all with slightly dominant purple circles. In fact now that I see the 

photo I can see another change that is needed - the centre circle is really not quite 

centred - oh bother. I feel some unpicking is coming on.

These are the blocks made so far on the design wall - I have two more rows to make.

I have decided to leave the blocks straight set rather than on point as I thought I might do.

The diagonal lines created by the pieced blocks looked better set this way 

and made the blocks look like they were on point anyway.

I had better head off in search of the quick-unpick!!

1930s Feedsacks

Last weekend I went to the Vintage Textile Fair and bought these 1930s feedsack fabrics.

These cotton fabrics were used to package feed in for sale. 

Cotton had become cheaper with the introduction of synthetic fabrics and feed 

companies were competing for sales. 

The women at this time were using these cottons for quilts, clothing and all sorts of 

other household items, so the companies became competitive trying to produce lovely 

designs that the women might want so they would buy their particular brand of feed.

I am not sure what I might make with these but will enjoy having them.

The winner of last week's prize draw was arncar - can you email me on

 robyn.burgess@gmail.com to let me know where to send your prize. 

There will be another prize this week.

Thanks, Robyn

Two More 1800s Blocks

Hi everyone - progress is going really well on these little blocks - they are just 6 1/2" finished.

These are two of the next set of four.

Ultimately there will  be 64 of these little blocks mixed in the with some bigger blocks. 

We are going to do this as a Block of the Month probably starting near the end 

of this year or early next year, depending on how progress goes. If I can keep up the 

current rate it should be sooner rather than later.

Next 1800s Blocks

Oh these little 1800s blocks are so much fun. 

You see progress so quickly - 20 blocks made already.

This is the next set of four.

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