tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67735154990187093582011-12-13T09:46:15.239ZWhat Janet is up to...patchesbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15560178307509301510noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773515499018709358.post-82805844282008850912011-11-20T18:54:00.000Z2011-11-20T18:54:29.086Z

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.

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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,

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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.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

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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! Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

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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.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

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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.

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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.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

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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. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

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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!

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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

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I woke up at about 4:00 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. So 4:30 found me sitting at the computer writing a newsletter about the latest Kansas Troubles Fabrics. I remembered that there's a block called Kansas Troubles, so I played around with it in QuiltPro4 and came up with this design, which I've called Pack Up Your Troubles. You can buy the pattern for £5, or better still, order a

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I've been stock taking for most of the day - Year end coming up. However, after that I decided I deserved some sewing time. Having taught a Jelly Roll class yesterday with two students making the Star-Crossed Quilt and the other student making the Basketweave Quilt, I thought it was about time I got my own sample of the Basketweave Quilt finished off. From one single Jelly Roll, I used half (20)

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I'm working on an idea for a new workshop. It'll be called Kaleidoscope Frenzy. Here are 18 of my kaleidoscope hexagons; I have another 18 to make. I've worked out some great tips for getting the hexagons just right and for the centres to all be perfect (well nearly!). Maybe not a great choice of fabric, since it was predominantly green, but it's all a learning curve. I'm planning to insert

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Back in September / October I was making this quilt and I wanted to share it here, but couldn't in case my Mum saw it. It was a surprise gift for her and David's 25th Wedding Anniversary. Well now they have it; it's on their bed and goes beautifully with the colour scheme in their bedroom. It's the Buckeye Beauty block and is made from two charm packs, hence the name - Buckeye Charm. Over the

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I spent the day making Christmas cards. Used a combination of Free Motion Embroidery and some of the decorative stitches on my machine (Janome Memory Craft 4800) and Mettler metallic threads. I just drew a rough outline of the image I wanted using my Sewline white marker, filled in the shape with fancy stitching and then straight stitched around to neaten off the outside.Published with

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After constant snow fall during the night I decided to cancel classes for the next few days. I don't want people to risk trying to get here and getting stuck on the way. This posting is a bit of an experiment; the first time I have blogged direct from my phone, including a dodgy photo of the snow take this evening, out of the backdoor. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5

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Thanks to Viv for 'nagging' because I haven't blogged for a while, I decided to let you know what progress I've been making lately. Following the Mariner's Compass Quilt class on Friday morning, I got my 'West' block complete (as in North/South/East/West) and finally got all those blocks along with some border pieces attached to my compass. I know the white looks a bit stark in the photo, but

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Well it's only 4 months away - as at yesterday. For once I'm ahead of the game and have completed my samples for this year's Christmas Patchwork Workshops where we'll be making a Christmas Star Table Runner and matching Placemats. Well, when I say completed I mean I've done the patchwork bit, but they don't have any backing or quilting yet. I used fabrics from the FruitCake collection by Moda.

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I've shown pics of this quilt at various stages. Now it is finally quilted and bound. If you want to make one for yourself I have a mail order Block of the Month Workshop for it. You get a fabric pack up front in a choice of colours and then instructions every month to make all the blocks and the border.

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So, if you looked at the photos from the other day - kitchen floor tiles - large cooker in the background - you'll realise that we love to cook. Well, Alistair does most of the cooking these days, since I am busy with my workshops. Yesterday he came up trumps - using a rather over-grown courgette from our garden. He sliced it open, removed the seeds and stuffed it with beef machaca mixed with

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On Thursday I had a lovely day teaching a 'Handy Bags' Patchwork workshop and managed to get a 'sample' bag completed for myself - This is done using Hunky Dory fabrics for the strips and the lining and Verna for the accent.  Yesterday Alistair and I spent a very productive day together in the garden, clearing out a load of rubbish, rearranging a few things and generally having a good old

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Alistair has been doing his own patchwork - working very hard to tile the kitchen and downstairs bathroom floors. I have been designing my own Bargello Quilt using diddy-little bits of paper in preparation for the Advanced Bargello class that I'm running in a couple of weeks. Here are the fabrics that I'm planning to use.

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Spent the day at the V&A yesterday, visiting the Quilts 1700-2010. I have mixed thoughts about the exhibition, but on the whole it was great and I'm really glad I went. I was really interested to learn that early quilts were displayed by the wealthy to demonstrate the expensive and exotic fabrics that theycould obtain, so we shouldn't feel too guilty about buying lovely new fabrics especially to

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I'm feeling very pleased with myself as I have got quite a few things done in the last couple of days. I have finally finished off the quilting on my Disappearing Nine-Patch quilt. I very naughtily put the binding on before the quilting was finished, because I needed to take the quilt to a couple of places for display, so the border got a bit puckered up in places (definitely won't be doing that

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Saturday was a very successful day at Newick Village Hall. It was lovely to have a good selection of quilts on show - things that some of my students had made at workshops over the past few months. Here are a few of those on display:

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Just about finished loading up all the boxes of fabric ready for the Fabric Sale tomorrow. Fabric from £5 per metre. Special Prices on the day: Olfa - Large Cutting Mats (36" x 24") £25.00 Micro-Stitch Tacking Gun £17.00 All Moda Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes £20 All Moda Charm Packs £7.50 June Tailor Cut-n-Press I  £18 June Tailor Cut-n-Press II  £28 June Tailor Shape Cut 12"  £20  Click Here for

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Quilts in the Garden / Racecourse Didn't get around to posting any pictures from the Quilts in the Garden/Racecourse show. It was a busy 3 days, although a bit quieter than usual on the Saturday. Due to the unfortunate last-minute change of venue, I think a lot of people, especially coaches, had planned to spend the afternoon at Trentham Gardens, so they all went off and left us a bit earlier

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An early start today. We were up at 5am and out of the house just after 6. A fairly trouble-free drive, just a few slow spots, but the lovely weather helped make the journey more pleasant. Stopped a couple of times for coffee and a sandwich and arrived at Uttoxeter at 10:15. Not only is this a different venue for us, we have also decided to change the look and layout of our stand quite

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Another string of busy days. Starting last Monday - I went out to Sandhurst (near Tenterden in Kent) to do a 1 day workshop on Foundation Piecing. I was very well looked after by the ladies there, who even provided a sit-down lunch - very civilised! Tuesday I had a couple of 'catch-up' sessions with people who had missed classes earlier in the year because of the snow. Wednesday was another busy

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I managed to tick quite a few things off my 'To Do' list yesterday. First, I sewed a binding around my Shadow Quilted Baltimore Wreath block. Aesthetically, I'm not that happy with it, but as a sample for this particular technique to use for my Applique class, it does the job. Secondly, I made a few fabric flowers using different techniques. These will be part of another block in the Applique

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Started making up my Stack and Shuffle example ready for the workshop at the end of March. Used the new Boutique Layer Cake. I came up with a good idea for keeping all the bits in the correct order. I'm glad I took these photos, especially the one of the completed blocks. When you're working on them at close quarters it all looks a bit busy, but when you step back, as in the photo, you can start

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Another fun day yesterday with a full class of four students making Jelly Roll Quilts; two were making the Basketweave Quilt and two were making the Star-Crossed Quilt, which was a good balance. It works out that one group are cutting whilst the others are sewing and vice versa.   

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It's been a hectic week, hence the lack of posts. I did manage to get a bit of sewing done to finish off my second Charm Square Quilt - called Shadow Boxes - in time for the workshop yesterday. This one's made from the Birdie Charm Pack. If you want have a go, you can buy my pattern which includes this quilt and also the Disappearing Nine-Patch (below), both in one booklet. This one's made from

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Having spent most of the day yesterday sorting out all the new fabrics - Boutique, Blush and Eden from Moda - we drove up to Wallington in the evening for dinner with our friends Karen and Ian. We haven't seen them for ages, so there was lots of catching up to do, and I'm afraid quite a bit of alcohol was consumed! We're sitting eating our breakfast just now; not allowed to post pictures of our

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An unexpected free day, due to the cancellation of a Jelly Roll Workshop at Polegate near Eastbourne, which has been snow-bound today. So Alistair and I got to work putting some meat on the bones of my new Patchwork and Quilting information site - www.janetcooperquilts.com. So far there is just basic information on patchwork, quilting, its history and explanation of some terminology, but we'll

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What a lovely bunch of quilters at Ouse Valley in Lewes yesterday evening. A huge room full of people that I was there to teach Foundation Piecing to. It was a bit manic, but great fun! Once they got started, everyone was working at a different pace so it was hard work to keep up with their progress and give them right instructions at the right time. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did.

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No workshops on today, so after a bit of office work this morning we took a trip out to our local farm shop, Townings Farm, for 'supplies'. Alistair stocked up on flour from Plumpton Mill, since he's now got into a routine of baking bread or rolls once a week. The grain is grown at Plumpton Agricultural College on the South Downs and is then ground at the restored watermill in Plumpton before

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Finally recovered from a tiring weekend. Straight back into it, with New Fabrics arriving on Monday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon was Stitch and Chat at Partridge Green. This morning I was choosing Moda Christmas fabrics for delivery in June and this afternoon I was back to teaching - Free Motion Machine Quilting. This evening I have been playing around with some new metallic threads that I

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Where was everyone today? It was a very quiet day, not just for us, everyone else said the same. Still, it gave me a chance to do a bit of shopping myself. I bought some metallic threads, so I'm going to have a play about doing some fancy quilting using those - I'll let you see the photos of that when I'm done. Also, stocked up on several pieces of cheap fabric to use as quilt backings. Proof

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A really busy start today. I actually remembered to take some photos while Alistair was finishing setting up, before the early-birds arrived! Lots of familiar faces at the show and lots of new ones too. Thanks to everyone who came to see us.

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Last minute preparations at home this morning, printing off flyers etc. Then loaded up both cars (having recharged the flat battery on the Mondeo overnight) and drove all of 15 minutes up the road to the showground. We've gone for a slightly simpler set-up this year, but it still took us 4 hours to get everything laid out and organised.

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Ardingly Quilt Show is coming up this weekend, so I'm spending all my time, between workshops, cutting up Fat Quarters and generally trying to get things organised. Piles of bolts waiting to be cut. Pile of cut fabrics waiting to be folded. Thank goodness for Really Useful Boxes!

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Just running through my Bag making instructions for Saturday's 'Handy Bags' workshop. I made up a miniature version, only 6" x 8". Very cute don't you think? I was rushing it a little, so don't look too close, but I got this together in less than an hour!

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I've been working on the Butterfly block, which is the last block of my Foundation Piecing Block of the Month quilt. Here is the block on its own..... ...and here it is laid out with all the others. Just the borders to get together next. If you like the look of this, you'll be pleased to know that I'm working on getting it set up as a mail order / web-download project. 'Follow' the blog so

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....until Christmas! I made up a few samples to give you some more ideas for what to do with those little 3" Picture Squares which seem to be rather popular, although I still get people asking 'What do you do with them?' Well, I cut out the square of fabric (picture plus 1/4" margin) and also a 3" square of scrap cardboard.  Stick the fabric to the cardboard and fold the edges over the back.

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Got those notions organised today, with lots of help from Alistair! Before After OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. Victoria - this one's for you!

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Finished upating the stock levels with yesterday's delivery, just in time for another couple of boxes to arrive. Now we have Quilting Notions all over the dining room table as well as the workshop! Got some more prep done for next week's Beginner's Block of the Month Class, so I'm all ready to go on that one now. Sent out our Patchwork & Quilting Newsletter telling people about the Blog, so now

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First day out driving in the icy snow. We went down to Townings Farm shop to pick up some South Downs lamb for dinner tonight, having lived on things out of the freezer for the past week and on Christmas leftovers the week before that. Just got back from the farm in time for deliveries to arrive - the workshop is now full of wadding, 505 spray, rotary mats and blades etc. etc. Didn't get much

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