sharing my creative journey
On the YouTubes this week we are making an Anita’s Arrowhead block. This is a relatively easy block which has a lot of potential if you consider colour placement or scrappiness or any other way that we can put together fabric – it does work better if there is a deal of contrast, but equally …
Over on the YouTube channel (yes, Sometimes I Quilt also comes in video format), I have worked through my process for putting together templates for hand piecing. The quilt I am working on here is my version of 36 Allbrook Hill; from the Quiltmania book Quilts from La Gare and other Mewsings, by Margaret Mew. …
We make quilts for all sorts of reasons. This one came under the heading of “because I wanted to”. I have long admired Lone Star quilts, generally hand pieced and traditionally quilted, but it wasn’t until I saw the Plains and Pine Big Sky Star quilt pattern, that I was moved to actually make one. …
It is currently December, and so quilting plans for the new year have begun to pop into mind. Over the past few years I have been interested in doing a temperature quilt, and so planning this in December, ready to kick off in January seems to be the logical thing. But I am starting with …
My Nana Kit lived to be 102. In her last months of life she took to giving advice to all who she considered part of her family. My cousins received pearls of wisdom on managing a work/life balance; my sons were told how hard life can be, and sometimes just persevering is what is needed. …
Like many quilters I have used – a lot – of different approaches to mark my work to help with the task of the moment. There is always new technology, the latest quilting gadget or tool to be used to mark appliqué, hand quilting lines or hand sewing guides on your fabric. For years people …
We had a recent family wedding that necessitated a cross country road trip covering 2300km (1430 miles), it also needed a new bag. Like many things, it started with shoes. I have had thee cream floral satin shoes which I was given for my birthday in what has come to be known as the pandemic …
I was influenced. You know when you go to the shows, and watch the demonstrations and write the user case in your head to convince yourself that this is something that you “need”. It has turned out that this thing I bought myself (as a reward for something, could have been surviving a Monday), is …
September 2023 brought the third (I think) of the workshops I have attended this year (the other two will come soon to here). It was with Australian contemporary landscape quilter Gloria Loughman. This was a two day class organised through Canberra Quilters Inc (my local guild), and was a very intense weekend filled with learning, …
I have been quilting for decades, but it took me becoming actively involved in my local guild before I would even consider entering my work in an exhibition. The first “exhibition” I entered in was for the completed Down the Rabbit Hole quilt top, with Sarah Fielke. At the end of each year Sarah runs …