A picture tells a thousand words

Especially if the picture is actually of a thousand words. 

Although I do think that the images speak for themselves - they show a complex idea far more simply than I could ever explain.

Loopy Quilting

Patterns are all well and good but I'm lost if there is no picture to go with it.I need the two together (pattern and picture).

One better than that again would be being shown how by a real person.

This beauty of a quilt is King size and only took less than a day to put the top and back together.

I then had it Machine Quilted (long Arm) by Kim Bradley. 

Want to learn how?

Calico & Ivy Balmain are taking names for one day workshops and Quilting tuition.

 

I'm a big fan of TEXT  

I love the statements you can make with text.  

Fonts and patterns are a big favourite of mine and fit in with Quilting beautifully, shapes/ movement/ placement - are all what make Quilting great and why I love it.

So many options and not enough hours in the day :)

 

This King size Quilt is made from material I designed and printed on Spoonflower, Its available to buy.

Quilt Back

This type of Quilt would suit so many different Fabric ranges not just my Text Design. King Size Quilts can be daunting and often people only make cot or single bed size - I challenge you to try something bigger, Make a quilt for your own bed - I did and I love it

Xx Siobhan

Apples

Lots happening in our household, the beginning of winter sports - goodbye saturday morning sleep in/ hello beanie,gumboots,coffee and a bacon & egg roll at 7am.

Family coming to visit from Ireland over the weekend which I'm looking forward to.

 A few projects on the hop that need to be finished and most exciting - I'll be teaching a class at Calico & Ivy Balmain next term, so I'm doing my prep work for the class. 

My Classes will be on a Thursday 10:30 - 1:30 and fortnightly (five classes all up).

Calico & Ivy

The class list etc will be emailed out to everyone on the email list later this week, so sign up if your not already on the email list - not many places in the classes so you will need to be quick sticks or you'll miss out.

I picked up some lovely Liberty of London fabric today from Calico & Ivy Balmain. I'm starting to do my examples for the class and I will be using the Liberty Fabric. 

Below are the Quilts we will be working on,The class is still being nutted out a bit - but I want to encourage Improv Quilting using simple shapes and also looking at structure and colour  technique in the log cabin.

Scrappy Quilt - Improv

Be Square Quilt - Log Cabin

for more info in regard to class content check out Calico & Ivy towards the end of the week.

These quilts suit both beginner and Advance students. The possibilities are endless.

 

Xx Siobhan

Lovely Linen

 Here we have the Linen & Liberty & Anna Maria Horner fabric I was working on. 


It's a perfect baby cot size or Lounge throw. It's lovely and soft because of the sparse hand quilting. Binding was done in Liberty of London and Anna Maria Horner fabric. 


I pre washed my linen in hot water and put it through the dryer, usually I wouldn't bother but because I was hand quilting and not densely I wanted the linen to stay put! no shrinking please.

Very easy - I would highly recommend you give it a go!

I wanted the hand quilting to  look very naive, I used a number 8 perle cotton and also doubled it over for thickness.

The back view of the quilt with the hand quilting showing through :)

Usual pile of Quilts hanging around somewhere in our house

Miss 4 had to get in on the photo action - never one to miss out.

This is a chair I'm thinking of upholstering  with some quilting...... I have two of them (the blue one),

Till Next Time Xx

Chicken Spots

The joy of children

Half of my mob have come down with the chicken pox (apparently called Chicken spots if your 4 years of age). So far all good - a few big awful spots and a bit itchy, but I am only on day two.So Im not home free yet. 

Lucky for me I have a bit of quilting to keep me occupied for my week at home house bound or trapped!!!!! some might even say.

Scrappy Quilt
This is Mrs Scrappy finally done and finished, I ended up binding her in a grey and white honeycomb - I think it's my new favourite neutral, it goes with everything!
anyway this Quilt is going to a lovely little one for her 1st Birthday = Happy Birthday Nyah :)

Scrappy Quilt

Scrappy Quilt

Scrappy Quilt

Be Square Quilt
The squares are so square! all right angles and exact. I especially like the way the squares jump out from the linen. Binding was done in my Fav pink paisley from Liberty of London, watch this space for some more liberty - I got gifted a nice little pile for my birthday not long ago, maybe this will be the week I cut it up??? Love Love Love Liberty.

Be Square Quilt

Be Square Quilt

Be Square Quilt
I've started machine sewing my Binding on - Is that naughty? It's much much faster.

Be Square Quilt

Impostor!

 Way back in another life when I was being interviewed for a spot in my Photography course I remember feeling very confident of my abilities, I then remember getting the letter of acceptance and thinking "Oh No! now they're going to realise I'm no good....... blah blah blah". 
Oh course I was fine and I then got a job as a cadet photographer. 
I later changed my direction and transferred to a Degree in  Social Work, which again was great - I Studied hard worked hard and loved my student placements. When I got my first real job in social work which I loved and had been striving for my whole degree - The feelings popped up again "what will I do when they find out I don't know what I'm talking about" etc etc.  


I was thinking all this through as I was ironing my quilt top - I was laughing at how I still don't consider myself a quilter and when asked if I'm a quilter I respond with "oh not really". I also tell people I cant sew - go figure? 


Anyway my point of all this Impostor talk and how it started was actually this Quilt.
It's in the shape of a Union Jack - but it's not a Union Jack, as I was ironing my quilt that I designed/Cut and had Sewn together I though of all the people I know and what they have accomplished  - Not many of them would recognise there own abilities. Funny really..........


So it appears I am a Quilter and I can sew :)




Here are all my recent Union Jack Impostors

*note the spotty dog
This one I finished today, I'm calling it my Convict Union Jack - It has the last bit of my text fabric I designed and printed and then mixed in with some linen and white. It's king size and has a nice big overhang.

*and also the spotty Miss 4yr

That's it from me Xx

Marmalade and Jam

Marmalade and Jam Quilt Top

It was Australia Day here in OZ yesterday - we had an unusually quiet one at our house and I took the opportunity to make up a Union Jack Quilt Top (I've been meaning to for ages).
A bit wonky - but I'm still very happy with it.

I think next Ill do a single bed size - for one of the boys - now that I have the hang of it and worked out where I went wrong with this one, It should be a piece of cake..........


Xx

Red Fabric is from the Alexander Henry range
Blue Fabric is from Denyse Schmidt Hope Valley
Sand Coloured Linen

Scrappy Quilt - Quick update

Final quilt for now - I think....at least till christmas is over 

What do you Think?

I love a scrappy quilt, might be a bit of a fiddle - but it uses all the much loved bits of fabric and looks great 

Hope your all getting your christmas stuff done (unlike me)

Xx