A spontaneous little giveaway

A few days ago the magazine LPQ sent me back my Seaside Sketch quilt I made for the 4th edition and they generously added two magazines to the package so I thought it might be a nice idea to give these two away to an interested reader.

This will give you the chance to have a look at the magazine and also to make any of the great projects in it including the Sketch quilt.

Rules of engagement are:

• leave a comment (any comment really....)
• you must have an e-mail address either on your blogger profile or given in the comment (I will not include no-relpy comments)
• anybody can participate from any part in the universe
• giveaway will be open until Tuesday next week

Enjoy !!

Love Patchwork and Quilting issue 4

A happy New Year to you all ! I hope you all got into 2014 safe and sound and with lots of good sewing intentions.

A few days ago the fourth edition of Love Patch & Quilting flattered into my house and it features another quilt of mine and an article I wrote on solids. To say that I am pleased would be an outrageous understatement....

Do you remember my Sketch quilt ?

When I finished it quite a few of you asked for a pattern and I was willing to do it but building works interfered and when the magazine came along I suggested to write a pattern for it by making a new version of the quilt.

The new version is a reminder of seaside colours and the quilt does give me a warm feeling when looking at it.

So if you are interested in making this beauty and I promise that it is not very complicated and actually a lot of fun then go an get edition 4 of the magazine.

Sketch - a finished quilt

I worked like a woman possessed on this quilt and finished it over the weekend. And what can I say. This was one of the most enjoyable piecing and quilting sessions I have had in a long time and I am just totally enamoured with the finished quilt.

It started of with just a photo of a spectacular wall decoration at a restaurant and ended with a quilt that resides now on my sofa and that keeps making me break out in a wild grin whenever I my eyes fall on it.

'Sketch' is such a riot of colour and perfect for this less than ideal summer. It measures around the 60" inch mark square.

I debated long about what to do for the back and finally settled on 'Uopia' from Free Spirit that I have had in my stash a long time waiting for something special. The colour fits perfectly with the turquoise and deep purple in the flowers as both are mirrored somewhere on the front.

The quilting is rather predictably crosshatch along the coloured strips but I quilted into the white squares as I wanted generous quilting and also just because I fancied it.

The white squares are 'Kona Snow' and the coloured strips are totally randomly chosen from my solids scrap bin.

The obvious choice for the binding would have been a scrappy one but I didn't much fancied the obvious so went for a stripy number in black and white which I think is the icing of the cake so to say.

And I am already on to the next quilt. Clearly the enforced break did do much good for the creative juices.
I hope your creative juices are flowing too.

Sketch - a work in fast progress

Could have ironed it a bit better.....

Sketch - inspiration struck

I got an e-mail the other day from a restaurant in London called 'Sketch'. They were advertising their Sunday offers. I have been to Sketch a couple of times over the years but have not seen all their dining rooms and as I had no intention of going there anytime soon, only halfheartedly scanned through the mail. And then it happened; inspiration struck like a flash of lightening when I got stuck on an accompanying photo of one of their dining rooms.

Photo credit 'Sketch' restaurant in London

Do you see why ? It's obvious isn't it ?

So I dove straight into my solids scrap bag which I had been eying beadily since I unearthed it from the loft anyway and pulled out every single strip I could find in their. I was like a woman possessed and a few hours later I had easily 5 meters worth of strips sewn together.

Then I went on to cutting white squares, luckily I had a 2 meter piece of almost white solid in my stash...phew...it was last Sunday afternoon too....so no shop would have been open to get me any white solid.

And I am still sewing.....