With his closest living relatives arriving from the US any day now, the Laundry King has been undertaking a cleaning frenzy around Casa da Praia with a modicum of assistance on my part. Our guest room gets lots of morning sun so generally I leave a sacrificial Ken Done doona cover in place. However, the […]
Bed Quilts
Stepping Out with Quilters Companion 49
It is the 10th anniversary of Quilters Companion magazine and inside Issue #49 you will find my classic quilt project Stepping Out. Based on a Victorian floor tile design, Stepping Out escapes from black and white into the glorious colour of Kaffe Fassett prints. I confess that I do not have any photos of the […]
Power Stripping with Kaffe
The postal system has yet to deliver my complimentary/contributor copy of
Welcome to SFO
When we arrived at our family accommodation at San Francisco, the guest bed was made up with a different quilt. Gone were the suffolk puffs from vintage scraps. In its place was a rose applique quilt with big stitch quilting made by one of the Laundry King’s aunts: Here’s a close up: One of my […]
Bordered & Basted
It’s been a B&B (borders and basting) day. Somehow the fabric I printed last month with Prints Charming has turned into an 80x80in bed quilt. The border fabric wasn’t exactly what I had in mind but the colours work and, quite serendipitously, the repeat on the stripe fitted my centre perfectly so that could mitre […]
Scrap Kaleidoscope
The studio clearance continues. One magazine that I will definitely be keeping is the February 2004 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting which features a modern interpretation of the moon over mountain block by Jean Wells that I used in making Taranaki Solstice: The “mountain” parts are appliqued and I cut out the surplus backing […]
