Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your projects, be inspired by the designs, colour palettes, tips and news being shared in our Worldwide Quilting Community. Join in the sharing by visiting and commenting on blog posts via the links below 🙂

It’s been a week dominated by the weather (well! lets be honest when does the weather NOT feature in a conversation with a Brit!) Suddenly the temperature dropped – enough to have air frosts just a day after walking around outside in shirt sleeves! Now the rain has arrived (in bucket loads) and our thermals are packed away as the temperature rises once more.  My sewing room was decidedly chilly for a few days but there’s nothing like messing about with quilts to warm up icy fingers!

I finished the Log Cabin Quilt inspired by National Jelly Roll Day back in September. I’m pleased with this quilt – especially the play of the dark teal with orange, a colour combo I haven’t considered using before this project.

As my machine was set up for walking foot quilting I pulled out the little hexie quilt that’s been loitering in my sewing room most of the year.

I like the secondary pattern star shapes created by the equilateral triangles surrounding the hexagons. To emphasise these I’ve used a 28wt variegated thread with a dark red 40wt in the bobbin to blend with the pinky-red backing fabric. I extended the quilting into the borders to complete the star shapes.

I’ve switched to a 50wt light grey top thread to quilt wavy lines through the centres of the hexagons. I made the binding for this quilt months ago so hopefully it will now be a quick finish!

Here are your links into our Worldwide Quilting Community:

Rachel shares some photos taken on her Summer road trip in France. The colours and details of the buildings she saw are providing inspiration for fresh patchwork colour palettes and designs.

I haven’t joined in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year which is kinda sad as I do enjoy the monthly colour prompts and the freedom to make any block you fancy! Mari has finished a set of RSC blocks, putting them together to form an eye catching Peace and Plenty quilt.

Christa Watson continues her series of quilting videos with this demonstration of how to quilt a wavy spiral using a walking foot on a domestic machine.

Irina aka the Nordic Crafter has written a really interesting blog all about the best needle for free motion quilting. She looks at needle types in detail and explains why she chooses to use titanium coated top stitch needles. I encourage you to click over to Irina’s blog post to get the low-down on needles for FMQ.

Here’s a fun discussion around the theme of quilting on a domestic machine from the ladies of the Quilt Babble.

Krista has some useful tips for measuring and attaching borders to quilt tops. I use the border cutting instructions of a pattern as a guide, preferring to  measure the quilt top as Krista describes before cutting the border strips to fit. I also pin carefully, first matching and pinning the centre of the border strip to the centre of the quilt edge, then pinning the border at either end of the quilt edge, finally smoothing the fabrics and pinning between the ‘anchor’ pins at the centre and ends of the quilt edge.

Nicola Dodd’s ‘Hazel’ Autumn leaf quilt pattern is on sale for the rest of October. It is an ideal pattern for using up scraps as the leaf blocks are constructed from ‘chopped up’ Half Square Triangles.

Happy Stitching!

Allison