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Technique:Design

Homeward Bound

31 January 2007 Filed Under: Cot Quilts, Technique:Design

When I showed my sister my baby quilt-in-progress, she reminded me that her friends had expressed a preference for the colour red. Mmm, I really quite like the colour red, not that you would know it from looking in my stash where it is strangely limited in appearance. In a flash of inspiration (my sisters […]

Designing with Electric Quilt

26 October 2006 Filed Under: Technique:Design

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get far with finalising my tax return yesterday. Instead, I got distracted with miscellaneous guild business and resizing quilt images in Photoshop so that they have 300 dpi resolution suitable for publication in the next issue of the guild magazine, The Template. I enjoy getting to grips with technology […]

More thoughts on Bali Batiks

4 July 2006 Filed Under: Bed Quilts, Contemporary Quilts, Technique:Design

As Helen has commented, highly patterned or multi-coloured bali batik fabrics can be challenging to work with. Like many large scale prints that do not “read” as a single value, batik patterns can be just too busy particularly in complex quilt designs. But wild patterns can be tamed to good effect in simple, large pieced […]

Chocolate Mint Slice

23 June 2006 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Inspiration, Technique:Design

I admit that I’ve been known to partake in a chocolate mint slice or two in my time but the inspiration for this piece was actually this Google earth aerial image of the French countryside that my brother Rowan sent me earlier in the year: I’m sure if I am going to continue with the […]

All Together Now

12 April 2006 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Technique:Design, Technique:Piecing

The hot cross blocks are all joined together now. I’m going with the rough, jagged edge (thanks to Alison and Betsy for their stiffening suggestions) but may trim the centre yellow top block back a little just the same. Now for the quilting. I’m thinking horizontal and vertical lines in different coloured threads to keep […]

A breeze of serendipity?

5 April 2006 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Technique:Design, Technique:Piecing

It was unseasonably warm yesterday so I had all the windows in my studio wide open. Then I rushed off to my final French class only to arrive home to find my blocks had fallen all over the floor. I use blockbutler for my design wall. Generally it copes pretty well but it was no […]

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