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‘Floating Duo’

Posted on February 22, 2015 | 1 comment

Another very easy to construct table runner is finished! The rich fabric pattern is set simply against a navy background, but what gives it a bit of a zing is the bright green binding. Quilting was a breeze, two lines in the background from end to end making a shape around the small patches. What I learnt with this project, was about quilt labels. In the Victorian Quilters handbook, there is a suggestion as to where to put labels on the back of a quilt. Apparently they go on the bottom left hand corner as you stand and face the back of the quilt. So from now on, that’s where the labels will go!

‘Floating Duo’

Where do you put your quilt labels?

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Posted in Finished 2015, Table Runners

Tagged background, feature fabric, quilt labels

Would you make these colour choices?

Posted on February 16, 2015 | Comments Off

‘Does this go with that?”, ‘What do you reckon?’, are just some of the ways patchwork quilters make decisions about colour choices for projects. Consulting colleagues in a class frequently brings out alternative ideas that surprise and delight. Sometimes a quiet hush can be interpreted as ‘Whatever were you thinking’ and you just know to ditch that option.

For the quick and easy table runner pattern ‘Paola’s Runner’, the colour choice technique used by each patchworker was to pull colours out of a feature fabric to decide the contrast and background.

Can you ‘see’ the thinking behind each choice that these ladies made?

Betty.

Heather.

Leanne.

Maria.

Maria just loves the Clarice Cliff fabrics!

Pam.

Dianne.

Dianne was so pleased to feature this print. It’s been in her stash just waiting for it’s opportunity to be showcased.

Sue.

Robyn.

Sue and I chose the same background fabric and yet when set against different feature fabrics, the effect is different.

Do you agree with the choices of colour? Do any of these appeal to you?

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Posted in Table Runners

Tagged Clarice Cliff, colour, colour choices, feature fabric

PP: ‘The Village’

Posted on February 15, 2015 | Comments Off

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,

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

‘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.

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

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.

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!