Bloggers’ Quilt Festival
Hello! If you are visiting from the Blogger's Quilt Festival, then welcome. I'll put the kettle on. I'd like to share this quilt that I made last year. It was my first foray into improv piecing, with all the bits cut without a ruler, put into bags in colour groups and sewn together randomly. I made a whole load of different sized blocks and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle. The fabrics are Oakshotts, from the wonderful ColourBox. I must admit, it took me a while to get the nerve to cut into them - they are almost too gorgeous to disturb. The original idea had been to hang this on the wall, but in the end I prefer to have it lying around to snuggle under. It's the kind of quilt that [Read more...]