Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your projects and enjoy some of the generous sharing of ideas, patterns and techniques that goes on in our Worldwide Quilting Community. Use the links below to find your way around and remember to leave encouraging contributions to the discussions going on in the comments section of the blog posts you read.
My patchwork quilting is still a bit hit and miss but slowly, slowly progress is being made. Up on my design wall at the moment is a project born of UFO blocks I discovered when having a tidy up.
The twenty Log Cabin blocks were made as I prepared a workshop some years ago. I had to fiddle around a while before settling on this off-centre barn raising layout – I wanted to use all the blocks. I had a half metre of the dark blue fabric to use as the inner border but had to go shopping for the red outer border. It’s Moda French General like the rest of the fabrics so is a fair match. The top measures 52″ wide by 63″ long. I intend to back it with a fleece blanket and quilt a spiral centred on the red blocks before using the rest of the dark blue fabric as binding.
Here are the links to our Worldwide Quilting Community:
The Log Cabin block has to be one of the most enduring and versatile patchwork blocks, both in the construction and style of individual blocks and the myriad quilt layout options. Rachel shares eight of the Log Cabin patterns/tutorials she has created over the years.
Angela Walters has a quick little video demonstrating how to free motion quilt around applique shapes. She is quilting a printed applique-style border but I think her tips and design ideas would work well for an applique block too.
Back to Rachel again… If you, like me, quite like the look of improv patchwork but can’t cope with all that seemingly endless, random cutting, stitching, slicing improv thing then maybe the more controlled creation of Improv Cross Blocks will appeal. Rachel has the tutorial attached to this post about her fabric selections for a new quilt.
Christa gives the inside tack into the judging process for a large, international quilt show.
Julie gives the low down on her sewing machines (she has six!) and ends her blog post with a list of the features a perfect sewing machine would boost.
Happy Stitching!
Allison
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Thanks for sharing the links! I was especially interested in Christa Watson’s take on judging modern quilts. Locally (well, in Jacksonville, Florida) next weekend is JAX QuiltFest with 450 quilts on display. For the first time, there’s a modern category, and surprisingly, it was the category with the most entries – 77. Two of the quilts are mine. No ribbon for me, but I’ll enjoy going to the show, and especially seeing modern. I’m always impressed with the designs quilters manage to come up with. Your orphan blocks quilt is a lovely layout. I’ve never been a fan of log cabin blocks (weird, I know), but I appreciate seeing what others do with them. Great work!