Fire Horse Textiles: patchwork quilt

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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Patchwork and a Textile Postcard

I made a couple of pin cushions / small cushions using English paper piecing - a relaxing and portable way to sew small items - more challenging for quilts (the one I made took about 10 years to finally finish! Collage photo below).

The first one is a pin cushion size, or suitable as a little cushion for a doll or teddy to sit on.

Hand sewn hexagonal pin cushion, listed on Folksy

Hand sewn hexagonal large pin cushion / small cushion, listed on Etsy

If you want to have a go yourself, there are lots of videos on You Tube, such as this one.

Another couple of pieces that I have listed this week:-

"In Another Galaxy" textile postcard, listed on Etsy

Punch needle embroidery pendant, listed on Folksy

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Vintage-Style, Stripy Scrap Patchwork Quilt

This colourful lap quilt or throw is made from 1090 individual pieces of fabric. I aimed to achieve a 'scrappy' vintage look with the eclectic mix of fabrics used.

Included are precious snippets of 1970s Summer dresses, vegetable-dyed fabrics, fabrics dyed by me, repurposed clothing, right up to modern day batiks and Kaffe Fasset shot cottons and colourful flower fabrics.

The colour scheme goes from light to dark in the columns and from red to orange/yellow, green, brown, blue, purples/lilacs to pinks across the rows.

The quilt is made in a freely adapted rail fence pattern, with stripes of differing widths, (each stripe may be made from one to three different fabrics), and these are made into 144 five inch squares, and finished off with a yellow and mint binding, inspired by an antique quilt.

The quilting is machine sewn at 2.5 inch intervals using a cream to beige shaded thread. The wadding is 80% cotton/20% polyester and gives a good combination of warmth and drape to the piece.