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Craft/ food story Developer, Writer & Photographer for Newspapers & Magazines. first Book on Quilts out March 2015 with @Interweave All images and content belong to Siobhan Rogers, if you would like to use my images please email me.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Everyday the sun comes up


Life does not stand still ....

everyday the sun comes up and life continues

at the moment that life entails chasing children - getting them to sleep, getting them to wake up, getting them dressed and getting them out the door - lots of other "getting them..." in between 

Usually all that stuff doesn't bother me
but every now and then I get huffy 
and when that happens I find the best thing to do (other than go for a walk) is make something. 

Luckily for me I had been watching everyone else in the online quilting world over the last month make a scrappy trip quilt.

If you don't know what that is - then take a look at the FLICKR group hosted by Just a bit Frayed and it has all the links to the original pattern by Quiltville etc

Its a great pattern 
as usual I changed it a little bit
I used 3.5 inch strips as it was what I had in my scraps from previous quilts

1 X 3.5 inch strip selvedge to selvedge (42 inch useable print) will give you two blocks

1 X Fat Quarter strip (21inch long usable print) will give you one block

each block finishes at 18inches 

I think I am going to do 
4 Blocks X 5 Blocks?

anyway - its been lovely to just mindlessly sit and sew over the last few days
and I love the results so far







One of my jobs for this week is to list fabric in my etsy shop!

I took delivery of lots and lots of Fat Quarters of the below text fabric with the white base cloth





I finally got my hands on some copies of my two recent magazines!
They are in Australian shops now 




The below fabrics are available in my spoonflower shop - I'm thinking about buying some bulk and selling it through etsy ..... lets wait and see how I go :)







I'm off to make more scrappy blocks

Xx Siobhan 

8 comments:

Lynne Reilly said...

Your quilt looks beautiful! I am in love with that text fabric : )

Carla said...

Love your scrappy trip quilt. Also the one on your couch! Looking forward to seeing the finish. I finished my top but it's not quilted yet

Spoonful said...

Cute!! Love seeing the quilt grow and your fab handwritey fabrics ;)

thea.
(spoonfulzine)

Siobhan Rogers said...

Thanks :)) its still growing!

Siobhan Rogers said...

Its such a great pattern - I had it in my class today - trying to convince the other students to make it! Ill have to have a sticky beak at your quilt :)

Siobhan Rogers said...

Thanks Lynne :)

Kristin Rauch said...

Love the bigger scrappy trip along blocks. I am going to have to make a bigger one. I did a Christmas quilt with the smaller squares and by the time I was done I was over it. But the bigger blocks, love! Also your fabrics are lovely, I have bookmarked some for my fabric budget next month since its spent this month already! ;)

Siobhan Rogers said...

Thank you :) no idea how I missed this! And yes the bigger blocks are much more fun to piece!

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