Quilting as I go ...

I am busy designing a quilt using the Quilt-as-you-go method - incorporating simple applique and hand stitching. I love how simple shapes, configured in different ways can produce something simple but beautiful. Each block has been quilted and then I shall join them together.

Hopefully by the end of the week there should be a beautiful quilt.
Caroline xx

Colour Play Monday ....

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BOM framing tutorial ...

A few people have asked how I framed up my BOM squares and I promised that I would post a free tutorial to help.

Here goes (sorry if it's a little lengthy)!!!!

1. You can use a jelly roll - I had Moda Posh left over from a previous project and cut them into 2" strips. You could also do it with scraps.

2. Trim your BOM to 61/2" square.

3. Start by sewing a strip to the top and bottom of the block. Trim and press seams open.

4. Add strips to each side.

5. Prepare the next strips - I cut 2" squares from a variety of strips - make sure you use a precise 1/4" seam allowance - you will need 6 squares for both top and bottom + 8 squares each for the sides. Sew the squares together. Press seams open.

6. Start again at the top of the block - match up the 1st and last squares with the seam from the first border you made. Stitch.

7. Press the seam open and do the same with the bottom edge.

8. The arrow shows where the seams line up.

9. Use the same method of pinning the squares to line up with the seams of the top border.

10. Press seams open.

11. Nice and neat!!

12. Voila!! done - the alternate blocks are made in the same way with 2" strips and 2" squares but the square border is attached first - for this there are 4 squares at the top and bottom and 6 squares at the sides.

Hope this makes sense!!!!

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Bom 4 Shop 'til ... you drop.

Bom 4 can be found here.

If only you had any idea what I have been through to get this up to today, it's a miracle I tell you - a miracle!!!!

• My poor computer had malfunction and turned itself off and there was no sign of life.
  
• I trawled through the yellow pages for a computer repair place and sent it off to be repaired.
  
• Even then there was no diagnosis but I was told it would cost £100.00 to simply be opened up, sounded like a problem with the Mother board - whatever that is!
  
• After much discussion with hubby it was agreed that I might as well buy a new computer.
  
• I reluctantly parted with my cash and so begun the process of installing lots and lots of software.
  
• My scanner is 8 years old and new computer was not happy to install it.
  
• Scanner was misbehaving (on hubby's computer - where it is now installed) and it took me 2 hours to figure out where scanned documents were being sent too.
  
• Hubby's computer did not like my hard-disk-drive and so would not let me copy and paste scanned doc to it so that I could upload it onto my computer.

• Thus I had to e-mail it to myself before much tinkering was done to get it to save as a pdf file.
  

I feel like I need a stiff drink and it's only 10 30 am!!!

Anyway without further ado - please enjoy my fourth BOM.

Thank you for yur patience and I promise to be more punctual next time. I also plan to do a tutorial on how to frame the blocks - there are going to be 9 blocks altogether.

Thank you for your support.

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A few of my favourite things ...

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Playing with Colour ...

I have decided to start using up some of my scraps, that are currently stored neatly in individual containers.

The idea of a crazy patch play experiment came to me after being inspired by yet another project by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr in their Modern Quilt Resource Book.

I'm not a great fan of green but admit that it looks quite nice when mixed with brighter colours;

Goodness knows what this will become.

But i did buy lots of white cotton today!!

I like experimenting and should do more of this type of quilting - it's rather liberating to have no idea of the outcome but to just go with the flow ...

Have a good week and enjoy your fabric playtime too.

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Ethan's Quilt and a confession ...

Once again, I can't take credit for designing this quilt. It's a pattern designed by Elizabeth hartman of http://www.ohfransson.com/.

My husband bought me a fat quarter of animal fabric a couple of years ago and it has been sitting in my stash waiting for the right project to come along.

All the fabrics used for this quilt were in my stash and I have really enjoyed making this little piece. I managed to applique the name and giraffe on, baste, quilt and bind this quilt all in a day and it should be winging it's way to a new baby boy for some friends of ours.

Now for the confession; I apogise for the lack of keeping up with my BOM project. My computer has literally just died and I have been using my husbands, unfortunately he does not have the same software packages and access to my scanner etc so until my laptop is repaired I will be unable to do the BOM. I'm sorry about this and hope to have it up and running again soon.


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