Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Pull up a chair, your latest project and join in the generous, inspiring sharing of our Worldwide Quilting Community. Use the links below to discover more about patchwork-quilting and your fellow makers. Please do join in the conversations going on in the comments section of each blog post your visit – it’s great to be part of the sharing 🙂

The past few weeks I’ve been pre-occupied with planning and promoting a schedule of patchwork quilting workshops. To be honest the promoting bit really doesn’t come naturally to me so I find it a bit of a slog but there’s no way round it – apart from sitting on a toadstool, blowing dandelion clocks and just wishing people would sign up (that method doesn’t seem to get results…) 🙄

On the plus side, planning workshops often involves playing around with fabrics, testing patterns and making samples 😁 I’ve made two Crossbody Bags and have the pieces cut for a third (hopefully the final sample with all the issues ironed out and a pattern modified to suit bag making beginners).

That’s my next project as the Crossbody Bag Workshop is taking place on Saturday 19th October so I need to get myself organised!

Here are your links into our Worldwide Quilting Community:

Suzy’s blog guest, Lydia Nicholson, shares a tutorial showing how to make a magnetic swatch board. It’s a great way to see a large number of fabrics in one glance. Much easier to play with colour combinations on a magnetic board rather than being totally overwhelmed by the fabric choices on a website or in a shop!

Dresden Stars are a new block pattern to me – they do look great! Gretchen has used the Dresden Star design by Edyta Sitar to make a beautiful quilt.

Jan joined in a fabric swap, exchanging 3 yards of red fabric to receive 150+ red squares in return. She’s made a classic HST quilt with the squares and is looking forward to taking part in another colour themed fabric swap.

In the Northern Hemisphere we are slipping out of Summer and into Autumn. Vicki has already created a mini quilt to mark the changing seasons. With Maple leaves and stars surrounding a pumpkin the patchwork is more Autumn than Halloween, and the machine quilting adds lovely texture to the feature blocks.

Sticking with the Autumnal theme, Amy Smart shares a comprehensive Maple Leaf block tutorial with cutting instructions for several different sized blocks.

In this quick video tutorial Leah Day shares a fix for Four Patch blocks which turned a bit too busy to put together. Leah demonstrates how to make them into large HSTs and shares some tips for accurate trimming.

Happy Stitching!

Allison