Big Bloom Quilt

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It’s been a super busy year, but we’re now in wind down mode, which means I can get to make some fun stuff. I sold out of all my appliqué quilts this year so that’s first priority.

I have a bin full of flower bits, I always seem to make flowers so no use fighting it. My templates are card stock cut into pedal and leaf shapes of all sizes. I made a large one last year that I love! It makes big happy flowers I often use on pillows, but couldn’t wait to use them on a quilt!

What will the quilt look like? No idea. Right now it’s 12.5 inch squares with big flowers

I’m using all Liberty, Work with what you love!

With the scraps from cutting out the flowers I’m making 3.5 inch squares with tiny flowers. I used the bondaweb method for those, too little to turn. I’m not a fan of this method as it looks so flat, But it uses up scraps. no plans for these square, just making them lol.

The huts still open until next Sunday, it’s sad when it closes for the winter.. hopefully that will change for next year.

That’s it for today, keep smiling!

Winter Wonderland Quilt

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I have been wanting to play with my winter Liberty prints for a long time, but I couldn’t come up with design I liked. While going through the Liberty website for inspiration, I found some patterns! Free ones! This quilt is three blocks, the tree is from one quilt, the star is one from another and the last block is.. scraps from making the stars!

Here are the links to the free downloadable patterns:

Tree: https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/craft/2020-festive-quilt-project.html

Use the templates & instructions for the simple tree block. You can add the house & other tree block too!

Star: https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/craft/merry-and-bright-liberty-quilt-project.html

Use the star block instructions. The pattern also has stars that are in a snowball that can also be used.

Scrap Snowflake Blocks:

Here is my YouTube video on how to sew scrap blocks when making flying geese for the stars:

I made 6 star blocks and used the scraps to make these fun snowflake blocks. Make 30 pinwheel blocks from your star scraps. Trim to 3 inches. To make the block, sew a patchwork of 5 pinwheels and (4) 3 inch squares of a background print per block.

All blocks I added a 2 inch boarder around and ended up trimming to 8 inches. It would be 9 or 8.5 but I mess one one up and just went with 8 inch

I made 42 blocks all together. The layout can be any combo of the blocks as it’s a snowy forest kinda look, feel free to add in other 8 inch blocks.. it’s your quilt, have fun!

I used 3.5 inch strips for the outer boarder.

Happy Sewing!

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Flower Quilt Design

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This is what designing looks like.. a mess lol. I started off wanting to use up some of the Primrose Hill fabric I have, that’s the bottom fat quarters in the picture. I made a flower block and found a leaf block I liked. I did all the calculations etc and started to iron so I could cut… then it hit me, can I make this from fat 8s so it’s more scrappy and cheaper to kit?

After another cup of tea, more calculations later I’m cutting two quilts today! The Lori Holt prints in that colourful pile will be cut to fat 8s then cut into the pieces needed to make sure my calculations are correct. I want to have more kits available this year in fun patterns that use a good amount of prints in an affordable package. Cross fingers this works out!

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First Week Of March

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Wow its March! So far its in like a lion here, hopefully it will be out like a lamb. We just had a nice fresh snow dumping, which meant getting up at 5am to get the drive cleared for hubby to get out. It is quite peaceful outside at the hour.. the snow blower made it a bit loud, but still peaceful.

Once dawn broke it went from clear to super foggy over the river in seconds. The weather here is fascinating! Those are stakes for raspberries in case you were wondering what the crosses are.

In the studio I have been busy doing A: tons of accounting B: sewing I should not be doing as I need to get the accounting done!

This quilt has been fun, its made with Reflections by Riley Blake. I loved all the prints but could not make a block I liked, I ended up trying a log cabin and voila! Loved it. To break it up I used a applique block taken from a pattern in the Cath Kidston book Sew! I have always wanted to use the sweet flowers in that quilt.

Its twin or couch size. The blocks are 10.5 each. I have a YouTube video tutorial available for it. I go through both blocks.

That pretty much sums up the week. I wish you all a wonderful week ahead!

Cheers! Vall