Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your projects , questions and expertise, ready to share in the project-fuelled inspiration being circulated by our Worldwide Quilting Community. Join in the sharing by leaving an encouraging, helpful message in the comments box of any of the blogs you visit via the links below.

I have set aside my creative meanders to stay focussed on writing and testing my Ohio Star Table Runner pattern. This is the pattern I’ll be using to teach a patchwork quilting beginners course in January.

I’ve completed the patchwork top and cut out the backing and wadding ready for basting and quilting… Apologies for the less than perfect photos – with storm Ciaran moving through – bright, natural daylight has been in short supply

The fabrics are from a range called ‘Forward to the Past’ by Ellie’s Quiltplace. Like natural daylight, sewing time is also at a premium this weekend so the runner may not be finished until the middle of next week. I shall endeavour to avoid meandering in order to complete the runner and the pattern (although many of the links below have me itching to start new things!).

More about the Patchwork Quilting Beginners Course on my Workshop page. Do send me an email if you would like the full details.

Here are the links into our Worldwide Quilting Community:

There’s still time enough in the present season to produce an Autumn themed table runner. Vicki’s table runner looks so wonderful made from lots of rich, saturated colour scraps.

And Diann has used scraps to produce a collection of Autumn themed table toppers. Such clever ways to produce beautiful, practical items from left-overs. That’s got to be the essence of patchwork tradition, hasn’t it?

A very colourful post from Krista as she explains how she uses views of natural surroundings to inspire a quilt colour palette and how those views also help with the placement of the fabrics across a quilt top. Her post is titled ‘Lighting, Shading and Color Placement‘.

The humble Half Square Triangle has to be the most versatile patchwork building block. Leila Gardunia began making scrappy HSTs in 2017. In her recent blog post she’s gathered together a gallery of 40 HST quilts made using her technique. There are so many different layouts and colourways to browse through!

Vicki’s curvy table runner has got to be a winner! Such an interesting design! Made from wedges this one has an Autumn colour theme. There’s a wedge-making tutorial on Vicki’s blog site.

A long, long time ago I shared Leah Day’s hacks for altering a generic darning foot to make it the perfect foot for free motion quilting. Leah has updated and republished her post and it’s well worth a read if you struggle with getting a clear view of your needle or get distracted by the darning foot jumping up and down as you stitch.

Shereece has just launched her new quilt pattern, ‘Let’s Mingle‘. Her modern patchwork design uses only a few fabrics and she says it goes together easily, great if you don’t have much time and/or want to make a quilt that showcases larger pieces of fabric.

Well! It’s only one step from Autumn to Christmas so here goes with a link to a Christmas quilt design inspired by Winter knits! Nicola’s design would make a lovely wall hanging. The pattern is currently available in Today’s Quilter magazine.

As we in the Northern Hemisphere slip into shorter days and dark, chilly evenings the thought of laying a quilt across your lap and doing some mindful hand stitching becomes more and more appealing. There’s a great introduction to straight line hand quilting on Suzy’s blog page. I’d also highly recommend looking up Carolyn Forster aka quiltingonthego if you’d like to explore big stitch hand quilting.

Linking with Alycia for Finished or Not Friday. Her QOV group have used ‘Scrambled Churn Dash’ blocks to make a quilt – it looks great, especially with the Baptist Fan quilting.

Happy Stitching!

Allison