Progress at last

I have finally put my Kaleidoscope Frenzy together and I'm in the middle of mounting it onto it's background, hence a few loose threads still showing at the bottom of the picture.

I've also had a successful attempt at making my Christmas Cracker sample ready for the Fabric Gifts and Treasures class on Tuesday.

Wild Flying Geese

This wall hanging started with a free-form design of swoops and swirls.

This was enlarged and reversed to create the master template. Some of the sections were filled in with Flying Geese-type designs.

The Foundation Pieced sections were constructed first, then the large background areas were cut out using Freezer Paper templates.
Joining the pieces together, with all those curved seams, involved lots of pins!

And here's the final result........

Another Kaleidoscope Frenzy

I know I've posted a picture like this before, but that was just a try-out, and in fact I got the sizes wrong.
Now I've made another 16 blocks. Here they are all laid out together, although I really plan to space them out with some plainer blocks in between. Then I think I'll do a plain black border, with some little Grandmother's Flowers appliqued all around.

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Tumbling Blocks cont'd

And here's the first few hexagonal blocks laid out, just to check that I'm getting the desired effect. I'm happy so far!

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Tumbling Blocks

Inspired by one of my students, Rose, I decided to have a go at a full Tumbling Blocks quilt, not just a block in a sampler quilt, which is all I've done with them up 'til now. Here's a box full of scrappy diamonds, tacked over freezer paper and sorted into lights, mediums and darks.

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Quilting Holidays in Italy

Alistair and I spent a week in Italy in June sorting out the details of the Quilting Workshops that we'll be holding in Umbria next summer.

Click on Quilting Holidays in Umbria Italy if you are interested in joining us or would like further details.

All Churned Up

Just finished number 2 on the list. Quilt top only; not layered and quilted yet. Made from a Layer Cake - Hope - using the Churn Dash block. Pattern coming soon.

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One down - ten to go

Started off today with eleven things on my to-do list. Just finished the first one which was to put together these four blocks, which will eventually be a cushion cover for the guest room.
They were made using the Freezer Paper method of Applique - one of the Alternatives that I teach as part of my Block of the Month class.

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Photo at last

I've had the Appliqued Flowers and the Ribbon Border on this quilt for a little while now, but hadn't got round to photographing it.

Now all I have to do is find time to quilt it!

Frozen Cabbage

Very frosty here this morning.
Alistair is learning to use a new XDCAM-EX1 camera that he's hired to video the Burgess Hill Springtime Classic Cyclosportive tomorrow. He took some great shots in the garden. I love this close-up of the frosty cabbages.

I was busy till late last night trying to organise my workshop calendar for the rest of the year.
Free-Motion Machine Quilting is my most popular class,

so I have slotted in four dates for that and will probably have to add a few more before the year is out!
There are couple of Bag Workshops

 and a repeat of the monthly classes for Applique Alternatives (10 different techniques)

and the Mariner's Compass Quilt (need to get a better photo - there are big appliqued flowers on the white bit now and a ribbon border around the outside).