.Check out www.quiltsocial.com where I discuss accurate piecing tips and a pretty "Batty for Bargello" Fall/halloween table runner. Download the free bat appliqué pattern for the reverse side of this table runner. Happy Wednesday! 🦇🍁
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Tuesday Sept 12, 2023. tips for fabric selection, ironing & notions make for easy Bargello piecing at www.quiltsocial.com all this week Sept 11-15 in a 5 part series. You can also make a quilt , follow along all week to see how. 🤓 + = Happy Tuesday!
Join me this week on www.quiltsocial.com when I talk all about the composition for a Bargello Table Runner with Fabric Creations Cotton, Gütermann Thread, Best Press, HeatnBond and more! It's reversible with bat appliques on the back. There is a free Bat applique pattern for download. I'll talk all about fabric selection and how to use this technique to design a quilt as well all week Sept 11-15th on Quiltsocial. A free tutorial for you to get ready for Halloween. Have a great week and follow along!
I was interviewed last week by a fellow You Tuber Steven Bland from Bland Designs & The Idiot Quilter. Steven is an enthusiastic quilter who films videos available on YouTube about quilting, sewing, machine embroidery and paper crafting! I was included in his series about other quilters who are on YouTube.
I met Steven originally at the invitation of a mutual friends (Judy) at Quilt Canada for a meet & greet Thanks to Judy! Tomorrow our interview will go live at 9:00 am ish . The link is here if you are interested, he asked my lots of questions about my passion for quilting. Also, you might also enjoy his ongoing quilty/crafty content, check out his YouTube Channel here There is an abundance of videos and topics discussed! Don't forget to like and subscribe❤️ I will also post our video tomorrow once it goes live on this website. I hope you all enjoy the interview and have a fantastic week! ☀️🙂 My blog post about Twin Needle Ruler Quilting that I demo'd at Quilt Canada is posted on the Bernina Blog here. Have a read and let me know what you think. You could also try this technique on a domestic (home) sewing machine. It was so much fun! Give me some feedback, I would love to hear if you think you'll try it and what you think about this as a creative option for quilting. FYI this is also Quilt #13 on my BERNINA Q20 Longarm Machine! Stay cool!☀️
Showed my quilts to the lovely community of quilters at the Grimsby Quilters Guild on Thursday Night, Lots of fun. Thanks so much to the Grimsby Guild Exec for inviting me! Ida and Candy, thanks so much for coordinating this evening.
I just completed my virtual crayon appliqué class today with Mississauga Quilters Guild. I showed them a BONUS Trapunto technique so that they can make it 2 dimensional and more like an appliquéd motif. It was so much fun, I want to do more crayon appliqué & teaching of this method. They were a great group, we had lots of great conversation and I'm sure they found the technique easy & hopefully fun! If you are interested in getting a group together to take this class, please feel free to contact me. Scroll down to see the class description here. Photos of the virtual class are shown below. Happy Saturday, Have a great weekend!😊🌷
Check out my blog post at Blog Bernina about using the BERNINA Circular Attachment #83, a versatile tool for creatives. In this post you can make a quilt as you go table center piece & embroider a lamp mat /candle mat. This is the end of my 3 part series but of course not the end of creativity with this amazing attachment!
Today on Blog Bernina ( the International blog) I am talking about making absorbent, colourful, practical felt coasters & centering fabric circle appliques & drunkards path blocks with the BERNINA Circular Embroidery Attachment #83. It's amazing and a versatile tool for creatives. Check out the blog article here and please feel free to comment or ask questions if you have any at all!
I've made it kind of a rule not to do custom quilts from scratch quilts ie. design to completion. They are so labour intensive! However this next quilt I'm talking about today was a "special circumstance" quilt where I just could not say no. My customer had a Mary Poppins panel and really wanted it made for her granddaughter & felt she 1) did not understand how to convert this small panel into a twin sized quilt and 2) needed someone else to design & make it for personal reasons. So I'll discuss my process first. I got the dimensions of the panel over the phone & found a pic of the panel online and then took the dimensions and plugged it into EQ8 (Electric Quilt 8) Quilt Design Software. The design I came up with is below. You will notice flowers in the borders in black (daisy like) these are to dress up the rather large borders. I also have an excellent quilting pattern in mind. I explained all of this to my customer and she approved of it. Some up close pics of the quilting "Daisies Galore" & appliqued daisies is shown below. The daisies were designed & drawn out, fused with heat-n-bond and zig zag stitched with a small stitch width & length & matching thread. These daisies match the daisies on Mary's dress and create interest in the border. It turned out that while still labour intensive, this quilt was fun to make and the colours speak to me as joyful. The quilting made the borders look almost as if they have a veil of lace daisies, the appliques & the variable binding helped to tie in the colours. I am really happy with the results and hoping my customer will be too!
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