Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your projects(s) and enjoy a sample of the patchwork-quilting inspiration being shared by members of the Worldwide Quilting Community. Don’t forget it’s easy to join in the sharing: just click on the links below and leave an encouraging message or join in the conversations going on in the comments sections of the blog posts you visit 🙂

We’ve been going BIG on family time here. It’s been just wonderful 😀 Seeing all three of our children, their lovely partners and our little Grandson was very special.

Now our house is much, much quieter, the guest room has morphed back into my Sewing Studio and I’ve started hatching plans for more patchwork projects. There’s been a lot of creative meandering going on in my head over the past few days and nights! I was awake for two hours the other night – time to see dawn spreading across the sky, hear the birds at 3.30am and enjoy a pot of tea (decaffeinated of course!) as patchwork-quilting thoughts did their restless meandering through my mind.

One meander curved around the Alpen Belt Bag pattern by Centre Street Quilts. I bought the pattern download a couple of weeks ago. On Friday I choose the webbing for the strap (a couple of Fat Quarters may also have slipped into my basket) and, once home, began gathering the bag hardware from my little stash.

But I didn’t get any further as the call of the garden was too loud. It’s that time in the season when the last of the seedlings need to be planted out and, after months of rain and chilly East winds, it’s been so hot and dry we’ve had to be watering most evenings. Hopefully the predicted storms will arrive this afternoon bringing enough rain to give us a break from watering… And more time to sew 🙂

This week I’d like to make the Alpen Belt Bag, complete the quilting of my Spider Web & Stars quilt and keep my plants alive!

Free Motion Quilting Spider Webs

Hope you find plenty to inspire your stitching in this selection of posts:

Cheryl shares some helpful tips and links in her post all about making a Postage Stamp quilt. It is a great way of using up small pieces from a collection of fabrics. Cheryl used her leftover Bonnie & Camille fabrics, they make a lovely bright quilt.

Amira has created a quick and easy table runner using a mini charm pack and some background fabric. I like her simple design and she’s right it would make a lovely gift.

Kathleen has been making School House type blocks as she’s followed along with the ‘Rainbow Neighbourhood’ QAL designed by Sandra of mmmquilts. Each block has the same outline of a building but the details, including a Barn Quilt on the side of each house, are varied so each block merits careful inspection.

Creating a quilt using only solid fabrics can be a bit daunting. Heather has provided her top tips for choosing and using solids in a blog post well worth reading 🙂

I really enjoyed making a Plaid-ish quilt using the free pattern by Kitchen Table Quilts. Michelle shares her second Plaid-ish quilt and her approach to choosing a colour theme for a scrap quilt. (See my version of the Plaid-ish quilt).

Jo Westfoot’s Quilt Hive membership is suitable for beginner and intermediate level patchwork-quilters. It is going from strength to strength with 22 classes now available to members and a new class added each month – along with live chats and a friendly Facebook group. Find out more by visiting Jo’s website.

Happy Stitching!

Allison