Simple Folk

I have started a new quilt (!) I am allowed as per the rules of Meredith's 6 and 6 in 2018 challenge, to start 6 new projects this year if I also work on 6 old ones...

I have made great progress on a couple of my old projects ...

Another block completed for Lucy's River Terrace, making 2 so far

and I met my end of January deadline - Down the Rabbit Hole is a quilt top!! I need some help to take photos and it deserves a post of it's own :) but the top is done!

I was going to just back this and make it a coverlet, but now I am thinking it needs to be quilted?

Can anyone recommend a good lightweight wadding/batting for a summer quilt?

Just in time as the first part of Sarah's new 2018 BOM 'Simple Folk' was released today.  I have all my fabrics washed and pressed and I have started making templates for this first appliqué block.

I want to make a Nordic inspired quilt, as I lived in Stavanger Norway for nearly 3 years and love all things Scandinavian, especially the painted Swedish Dale Horses

I did a quick colour sketch when Sarah released  the fabric requirements.

My background is an off white on white hearts fabric (9109 Essential Hearts by Makower)

The rest of the red, white & Blue fabrics are from a FQ bundle of Nordic Stitches by Wenche Wolff Hatling for Moda Fabrics that I got in the Black Friday Sales.  The appliqué blocks have triangle corners, to form a second design with the pieced blocks. I want to use this iced blue.

I have started thinking about the fabrics I want for the appliqué Tulip

I like it but it is a little dull?

 I am now thinking that I need to add a little yellow/green like the painted horses - what do you think? just a little on some of the appliqué blocks to avoid everything being too matchy matchy?

I think I like this a lot more :) I will think about it for a day or two, in the meantime I will pull out  another oldie - 'Happy Days' and carry on with my hand quilting (Can you see my halo shining 🤣)

New Quilt Group, New Project ...

My quilting mojo is back with a bang! My head is swimming with ideas for new patterns and quilts I want to make, after so many months it is a good feeling 😃

I have finished the appliqué on my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt and now just need to decide on colours for the pieced border (this could take some time!)

I have joined a new quilt group - The Queen Bee Quilters which meet weekly on a Thursday morning, several of my friends who worked on the Magna Carta Quilts with me are members, and I am looking forward to sewing with  them again.  I decided that a new group needed a new project 🤣

Last year I subscribed to a BOM for the Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses quilt

EPP in Liberty fabrics, I loved the fabrics so much that I appropriated some of them for my Happy Days Quilt!

Which left me with a pile of 1" square and elongated hexagon papers - what to do with them? As usual I knew I wanted to make some kind of version of Lucy's quilt but with a twist. Then I stumbled across this modern version 'Lucy's Terrace' by Jodi from Tales of Cloth where she has taken the blocks and set them on point.

I love it! Jodi has very generously shared her pattern for free, you can get it HERE

Her version uses 1 1/4" pieces and I have 1" so I may have to adjust things as I go, but it is a start. I also wanted to explore making a low volume (low contrast) quilt, something I have never done.  I have bought some new fabrics just for this quilt 😃 Jodi also does a lot of fussy cutting, so I bought 1/2m of some so I could do the same

I have decided to make most of the blocks very low volume, with the greys, mint, pale blues etc and use the coral fabrics for the setting squares. I am not sure if it will work but it is fun trying! I have cut the first few blocks.