As I make more and more things, it's time to show them all in one place.
Here, then, is my gallery of artwork - latest work first (disregard 2013 date above!).
June 2015: Almost finished a cushion cover for a friend who gave me all her old Liberty prints and other fabrics once she saw my quilting work. So I incorporated several of her fabrics into this cushion cover and will surprise her with it very soon! (The border looks black and white in this photo, but it's actually a deep navy and suits all the other colours in the work.)
May 2015: For the past three months I've been feverishly creating presents for my friends and family.
My best present: a tote bag, made of quilted patchwork and lined... a course on Craftsy.com online by Tara Rebman.
Next: a wall-hanging from a kit I purchased on Craftsy.com and stitched all the little squares together!
Next: a throw (or wall-hanging) made from strips:
Made all these various cushion covers. Easy to transport abroad, and I'll let the recipients find the right filling or cushion! The backs are in attractive fabrics, with a straight envelope flap across the width of the back... very easy to fill. Wonky half log cabin pillowcases - as per Jacquie Gering's tutorial on her blog.
Just a small 'sheet' of tiny squares I ironed onto special fusible and stitched, accordion style, horizontally and vertically in order to produce perfect squares! It's done on QUILTSMART grid fusible. An incredibly easy and brilliant accessory in the quilter's cupboard!
Finished stitching and appliqueeing my paperpiecing Y-shapes into this 'Metropolis' that appeared in my Needlechasers of Chevy Chase guild biannual quilting show in October 2014:
Table runner: from a Craftsy kit:
February 2013: This is a jacket made from a sweatshirt. I bought fabric that I liked, starched it, cut out floral motifs and machine stitched them onto the cut-open sweatshirt (having bought a 'background' fabric that would appear in between the flowers, to hide the black sweatshirt!). I went to two afternoon classes, and the rest was done at home over the space of about 3 weeks in all.
front of jacket:
back of jacket:
close-up of back of jacket
In 2012, I attended a ten-week class of two hours a week learning the basics of patchwork and quilting. It was very new to me as I'd never before used a sewing machine for any of my projects. I set to and made a 'sampler' in those ten weeks, which is now hanging on the wall at the foot of our bed.
I just love batiks and these autumnal colours!
My project after this one was a hand-quilted 'throw' for my stepmother in London, for her 80th birthday. I bought all the black and white fabrics, machine stitched them into blocks, machine stitched the red band, the small squares of the edging and the binding, then hand-quilted the circles and the 80 stars around the edge. Completed it in three weeks of pretty full-time work!
preparing all the squares...
piecing them together on the floor
preparing to baste (tack down the top design through the batting - soft cotton padding - to the backing fabric):
drawing circles to quilt through the three layers:
...until the final item looked liked this:
Before this throw, I had also finished a log cabin wall hanging that had lain around for several years. Actually all the blocks had been made years ago, it was just a question of sewing them together. Everything by hand. No quilting, no machine stitching. It's now up on our living room wall.
