Category Archives: Pascoe Patchers

PP: ‘The Village’

A few of the PP are getting together each month to work on a ‘village’ quilt. Most of us are doing ‘Robianville’ by Robyn Coots, an appliqué 5 panel pattern,

Robyn Coots applique pattern 'Robianville'.

and a couple are doing Quiltmania’s village ‘Mystery Quilt by Yoko Saito.

'Quiltmania Mystery Quilt'

‘Quiltmania Mystery Quilt’

Jennifer has started a collection of greens for the hills and trees, while

Sue began selecting tree bark, or building fabrics from her stash of fat quarters.

Sue began selecting tree bark, or building fabrics from her stash of fat quarters.

Sara cut and pinned her hills by fussy cutting from an ombre fabric.

Sara cut and pinned her hills by fussy cutting from an ombre fabric.

Julie's 'Australiana' interpretation.

Julie’s ‘Australiana’ interpretation.

Julie decided to work smaller, so reduced the pattern by 50%. With a stash of fabrics printed with Australian homesteads, houses, and buildings, she is fussy cutting and appliquéing to build each panel.

I have begun building the background hills.

I have begun building the background hills.

For this piece of work I am using a variety of techniques as I go along. For this part, it’s turned edge work which I think I will machine stitch down with a monofilament thread. Well, that’s the plan – let’s see how it goes!

Check back next month for a squiz at where we’re up to in this appliqué journey!

PP: Mystery Quilt

Patchwork quilters are visual learners who explore the use of colour in every quilt. How these colour choices are made varies between quilters. It can be as simple as

  • what’s in my stash
  • what grabs my eye as I walk into a patchwork shop
  • what I see in a magazine
  • what colours I’m attracted to

Sometimes it can be influenced by experts in the field of colour, and in particular it’s use in patchwork quilting. Jinny Beyer‘s palette teaches the use of including a deep dark and a bright accent, while Joen Wolfrom teaches how to use the entire colour wheel!

This week, the ‘Pascoe Patchers’ chose fabrics for a Mystery quilt class at PU. I wonder what influenced their choices?

Sue just loves green and orange!

Sue just loves green and orange!

Sheryl likes bright and patterned!

Sheryl likes bright and patterned!

Glenice goes for purple this time.

Glenice goes for purple this time.

Susie has basic blue, including a gorgeous Japanese fabric.

Susie has basic blue, including a gorgeous Japanese fabric.

Betty raided her stash for bouncy neutrals.

Betty raided her stash for bouncy neutrals.

Robyn has hot stuff cooling down!

Robyn has hot stuff cooling down!

What influences your choice of colour in your craft?

‘Celtic’ is complete!

Celtic table runner

Celtic table runner

The first in the series for 2015 Table Runners, at the monthly class with the PP group at ‘Patchworks Unlimited’. This one is designed by Zoe Clifton. Once again the background colour does not photograph correctly, the greenish tinge at the left is the closest to it’s actual shade. What I enjoyed with this project was the challenge of making my own bias, and actually finishing it!

Pastel Tessa talks about ‘procrastination’ in her latest blog post, I know I certainly procrastinate when it becomes report writing time, I wonder if not finishing projects is a form of procrastination?

Distant Horizons

Distant Horizons

Distant Horizons

Finished it! This one now doesn’t belong in the list of UFO’s! An easy table runner to construct (using the ‘Accuquilt’ half hexagon die), and quilted with straight lines. A project of the PP’s.

This reminded me of childhood summers spent at the beach gazing out across the water at the horizon. Some days the water was dark and stormy, others a clear calm blue, or whipped up and foamy on a hot north wind day.

It is not an easy task to name a quilt. It can be as easy as putting a pin in a dictionary, or as hard as getting centres to meet in a mariners compass! What helps you come up with names for your quilts?