Mid Winter Red - making progress in Summer

At camp, during winter 2015 (Aussie winter) I made these blocks from a Mid Winter Red layer cake, using a tutorial by Missouri Quilt Co.  The pattern is called Disappearing pinwheel by Missouri Quilt Co, but I have been referring to them as Pinwheel in a Churn Dash on my UFO list.

 The 20 blocks were relegated to the naughty box because the outside edges were all on the bias, due to the construction method (ie quick and easy!).  

Hence the blocks were all slightly different sizes and needed trimming.

I hate trimming!

However I love buying fabric.  So with sashing and cornerstone fabric purchased these blocks came out of the naughty bin.

Confession; I never trimmed them!

I just pinned carefully and sewed them to the correctly sized sashing and pressed, pressed, pressed.

They look pretty good to me!

I ran out of sashing, but have ordered more by snail mail.  

In the meantime its nice to know that one UFO is back on track.  

Happy quilting Sue.

Quilt Camp - Part 5

Phew, you finally made it to my work from  quilt camp!

I wanted to get this top sewn together, so started off sewing the backgrounds above the flowers and the sashings to join the columns. I was very lucky to get some neutral fabric donated to me, to enable a scrappy pieced background.

Alas once I was done we decided the quilt was plenty long enough but not wide enough!

Searching through the box I found plenty of left over blocks, but not necessarily in the colour I wanted.  So we fiddled and I made a few new blocks to make a sixth row.

I also wasted time making four patches for "dirt" at the bottom of the sprouts and then decided to not use them.  The Scrappy Sprouts quilt finished so much bigger then I expected (88x88") so I sent it off with my friendly long arm quilter.  It was also too big for a good floor photo!

I am really happy with this quilt and cannot wait to get it on my bed when winter arrives.

I couldn't come to a decision about sashing, none of the colours I had with me worked.  So I sewed all the Dresden blocks together and I am nowt contemplating what to do for a border instead.

These half square triangles needed an injection of red.  

But when I went shopping I came home with a red and orange

stripe and a blue and orange stripe instead.

I made triangles from the red/orange stripe and was happy with the extra colour.   Equally excited that I got all the blocks stitched together before I went home from camp!

Now just need to see if the blue/orange strip looks OK for a border : )

Happy quilting Sue.

Quilt Camp - Part 4

This kit came together in no time with a simple but sweet four patch design.

The hexagon pattern was so much fun.....

She made two of them - but not in one weekend! :)

This quilt top needed borders.

After which it needed pinning and quilting!

The quilting got started, but not finished...it is a very large quilt!

Happy quilting Sue.

Quilt Camp - Part 2

This pattern was very popular, two ladies, two very different quilts.

Large floral prints, mainly Kaffe Fassett I think.

 Star Wars fabric!  

The Star Wars came together really quickly!

The black sashing set it off really well and stopped the prints being too busy.

Happy quilting Sue.

Quilt Camp - part 1

I am going to share some photos of what we achieved on camp.

There are so many I will need to do this over a few posts!

This work in progress is a T Shirt quilt for a friends granddaughter.

She is an gymnast and some of the logos on her t shirts wrapped around from the front, over the side seam to the back of the top.  This made the cutting very tricky!

But the quilt came together slowly and surely over the weekend.  Still more to do, but the difficult bits were done!

Happy quilting Sue.

Sewing weekend at Bordertown part 2

My mother sewed the squares for this quilt top together last year at our retreat.  So this year she cut the blocks out with the twister tool and then stitched them back together, very pretty pastels, from her stash.

Then she worked on piecing the blocks together for this stunning quilt.  The block itself didn't excite me much, but I love it now, especially seeing these colours together. 

 Mum also made these blocks, using a pattern she had brought that included a template.  She made more than these few, but I don't have a updated picture of the final amount.

Lisa worked on several projects over the weekend and I seem to be lacking photos of her progress.  She cut up this gorgeous layer cake, and realised she had a bit of  Basic Grey theme happening.

Lisa also started work on this quilt.  I remember taking the photo of the pattern because she had fabric flying so fast I wasn't sure I would ever see all the blocks laid out...and I didn't!

But the one project Lisa was working on at the end of the weekend all had us itching to start our own...pieced feathers!  This is a free Anna Maria Horner pattern called Feather Bed Quilt and I love it!

Vicki also worked on several projects.  She started a funky coloured modern Dresden plate for her sister....these are all made from one fabric with different coloured stripes.  So I guess you call that fussy cut Dresden?

Vicki also worked on the quilt she started last year, my favorite reproduction tumblers.  This quilt is destined to be very large and she was just auditioning which way to place the rows here.

Vicki also made some traditional red and white Dresden's, here they are partially constructed being auditioned for backgrounds. That is my green fabric, but her hoodie top light blue made a great contrast which I think won the vote as our favorite!

Phew, that is all the show and tell!  Happy quilting, Sue SA.