Scrap Bag

I have been putting a quilt together using the
Prints Charming car hand prints.
My question to you all is – which way?

All the same way.

Driving around the inside.

Driving around the outside.

This is Memories of Summer, a slightly different version of Memories of Japan. The Memories of Summer is actually a bit bigger and uses 9 Fat Quarters.

I have also marked some fabrics down to $10.00 p/mt,
and discounted some of our patterns.

Lots of new stuff too. Japanese fabrics, black and whites
and just lots of  yummy materials.

ps: we have also donated a quilt to Handmade Help – raising money for bushfire survivors.

We have a lovely new pattern that i just couldn’t resist making. I am always doodling in books, scraps of paper, anything I can get my hands on when a creative urge takes over. So I thought I would make a nice place to put all these ideas and this pattern for Journal Covers from Janelle Wind was perfect.

I used the same orange spot fabric that Janelle used and we have lots more if you like the look of this! I also used some yo-yo’s for the flower centers, and some soon to bought buttons for the middle. Anyone got any suggestions as to what colour buttons?

My mother has been busy sewing a much brighter and lighter version of the Memories of Japan Quilt. I just love white sashing! Just got to quilt the rather large thing. I’m thinking just some simple crossed hatching with my walking foot.

We have been waiting for a big delivery of fabrics for our Snowflake Medallion Quilt so we can make the quilt up into packs. Please email me if you are interested in one. We have created a new page in our store all full of the fabrics that were used in the quilt. Should make it much easier to find them all!

I have finally finished the pattern for our new quilt Snowflake Medallion. Lots of hard work from my mum trying to decipher my notes. Hmmmmm should remember to take better notes next time!

Snowflake Medallion

This year the Ballaarat Quilter’s Xmas Challenge was a fabric. So we had to make a quilt or anything really using this fabric. The fabric is the chocolate in the photos below. I have always loved the small little squares often used in vintage quilts and I have always wanted one myself!  (it only has 400:  4-patch blocks)

A while ago I mentioned that I was making a black and white quilt for a wedding present. Well I have finally finished the quilt top. Now all I have to do is quilt the large thing. I made it using Victorian Textile’s 81/2″ Drunkards Path template and their new 41/4″ template. We should have the smaller templates in stock shortly. ——– UPDATE: 4.25 inch templates now in stock——

One down about 4 to go! The binding always takes longer than you think it will, but I am very happy to have this quilt completed. I wasn’t actually going to finish this one for a while but it was accepted as a project for Down Under Quilts, always a great motivator! Mum is also being profiled in an upcoming issue of Down Under Quilts too! All very exciting.

This is a new quilt for a friend of mine who lives in Sweden. She has just had a baby boy and I have been deciding what kind of quilt to make. Then I remembered a lovely UFO sitting at the back of the cupboard. I am sure Mum and I started this quilt at least 4 years ago, then just lost interest. What naughty girls we are. Anyway i pulled it out tonight, made 4 sawtooth stars and then sewed the borders on. Ta da……. finished.

I was always going to make this quilt into a bed quilt but got stuck after the last border. It is so busy and bright I just didn’t know what to do. I think a baby quilt is the answer – no more borders to make, no more decisions to be made. I like it.

My Mum and I promised my sister a quilt for her 30th birthday, mmmmm she is now 35. Opps. Thats the thing with owing a shop, you are always sewing new samples, or desiging new quilt patterns. Family stuff always seems to come a very distant 2nd.  I pieced this quilt for her using the pattern “What a bunch of Squares” from Denyse Schmidt’s book, “Quilt”. I made it using a cream solid and Amy Butler’s Midwest Modern range.

Yesterday whilst watching the Olympics I decided to baste and machine quilt this rather large quilt. 8 hours later and with very sore shoulders and back, I was finished. I really like the simplicity of this quilt and I think I would like one for myself too!