Quilt Camp is coming up this weekend so I have been busily finishing off my charity quilt for Ronald McDonald House including free motion quilting and continuous mitred binding without bulges (see tutorial). This is not the greatest photograph of Quilt Camp Kaleidoscope (it doesn’t ripple like this at the top, honest) but I am […]
Cot Quilts
One step closer
Now I have all the triangles joined together, I can clear the design wall for something else and come back and quilt the kaleidoscope top later.
The Humble Half Square Triangle
My first quilts were made from half-square triangles. When I was riding the escalators in the London Underground earlier in the month, I was intrigued by the promotional posters for the latest album by piano rock band Keane (no I had not heard of them before either). A most quilt-like design, I think you would […]
Beach ball baby quilt
In the middle of machine quilting this quilt, I wasn’t liking it very much. Now it has been washed and bound (like Kirsten, I like crinkly for these kind of quilts), I think it turned out pretty well. Click for close ups.
Baby Quilt in Progress
My “to do” list for the next month is rather long. One of the priorities is to finish off the cot quilt for my niece or nephew. I’m trying out a new (to me) quilting motif and I am not so accomplished at traversing the quilt top evenly. Alas, some unpicking has been in order […]
More Progress
Today’s whale count: 10 Yet I managed to wrest myself from gazing out to sea long enough to finish piecing this quilt top: