New Quilt Formats

Inspired by @AngieQuilts :)
Once upon a time...my first FB friend sent me this WOW! thread painted postcard!!
I had never seen anything like it! I believe Angie pioneered thread-painting in this new medium.

[No worries, you too can get one of Angie's amazing creations in Angie's Textile Art Etsy Shop]

 

While I still haven't quite got the hang of thread painting and fabric printing like Angie does,

I have been playing with the magic postcard interfacing

 

and..........

 

its perfect for quilted jewelry!

 

It took many tries to work out the finishing details over the years since I received Angie's lovely Sunflower Postcard all the way from Cheadle, UK,

but here at last is Hexagon Cuff

Thank you, Angela:)



Quilter Kathy MacCleary

I was sew fortunate to spend Saturday morning at the Museum visiting with Kathy MacCleary and her amazing tiny stitches.

Hand quilting!

 

 Red & white thread for r/w EPP.

 

 Tiny Drunkards Path (nearly - corner to corner pieces) baby quilt.

 

  Kathy's signature continuous Rosette hand-quilting shows well in this baby quilt pic.

 

 

I put Nanette's button ring in the picture so you can see these tiny hexies really are 1".

 

 I think this one is my favorite: Broderie Perse with hexie flower "rain." And rare machine stitching here. [Bad picture, sorry.]

 

Or this one! Kathy says finishing this quilt helped her recover from a stroke.

[If Blogger would let me add a caption, it would say, "Kathy MacCleary w/ homespun masterpiece."]

Kathy matched all the naps in every tiny plaid and gingham!!!  

Hand quilted - oh yes, she did!

 

Even the "T"s are matched!

Kathy says, "When your first quilt is Cathedral Window, everything else seems easy."

And here are some of Kathy's new adventures in fiber arts:

Can you see the doll sized chatelaine with scissors and spool? Cute hairy legs, too:)

[Sorry, Blogger won't let me enlarge pics todays.]

 



Turquoise wrapped with copper wire and beads.

 

Yes, that is the moon you see :)

 

 

 

 Kathy has made sew many amazing quilts!

 

 

Kathy, thank you for sharing!

And thank YOU for reading :)

Grandmother's Garden Tote

I'm so excited to be writing a pattern, at last! And terrified too. I know it sounds silly, but there is just no time to contemplate that irony. Someday I will find where all the time goes.

We have 8 more designs in various stages of testing, so we haven't been lazy since we started this blog. Finally decided just to pick one thing and get 'er done... or else. Alex helped with chores, even cooked dinners, so I could focus on figuring this out for the President's Day weekend. I am so proud to say, Grandmother's Garden Tote has been a true family project!

Pearl helped too.

Why was this design so tricky? Because there are no seams, just piecing.

The entire tote basket is English Paper Pieced hexagons.

Yes, even the straps are pieced!

Can't wait for you to see the pattern! Our next goal is to have our pattern published by St. Patrick's Day.

It is actually an easy quilted bag (I can say that now, of course). I wanted to design a completely portable project, that is fun to sew all by hand, and here it is; Grandmother's Garden Tote, a basket from a traditional 'Grandmother's Flower Garden. '

I hope the fun you will have creating yours, equals the amount I have learned in creating mine.