I am running out of wall space, and friends to give stitched things to. (One of my motivations for starting to sew for Love Quilts initially actually) But I also try to think how else I can use and display my sewing.
A couple of projects were started out as being educational cross stitch pieces for S&P and have been finished off as quilts.
The numbers quilt takes elements from the number blocks designs that were originally published in New Stitches. In addition I did applique number blocks to intersperse on the quilt top.
The alphabet quilt takes the letter patterns from Margret Sherry .
I do some straight patchwork and quilting too. I'm not sure where the design or this one came, but it was a fat quarter bundle that I bought with no plan for. It is a bit larger than I am used to doing on my domestic machine and I actually sent this away to get it properly long-arm quilted.
This one is big, and I did between finishing University an getting a job. It was quite fun to do, with the variety of different blocks. This one I quilted myself, but I went away for the day to a local quilter's who let you use their long-arm quilting machine. An enjoyable experience and made me wish that we had both the space and the money to house one myself. A pipe dream would be to be able to set myself up and do it for others, but it does not strike me as being a viable option when you need to make a living.
The last one here I tried out a different technique. I did it quilt-as-you-go. So each block I pieced, then layered up with wadding and backing, and then quilted individually. The front and back sashings were then stitched on together, sandwiching a wadding strip between them when stitching the second seam. I used a different colour to the backing for the sashing on the reverse, I think it makes for quite a good effect.
Happy stitching, xx
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