Diagonal wave cushion

Diagonal wave cushion front waiting to be trimmed and backed. This piece is handpieced and quilted from a mixture of new and old fabrics including beautifully soft upcycled shirt fabrics and some Japanese kimono lining. The quilt sandwich is made up with a piece of lightweight fleece which gives a lovely firm but soft feeling to the quilting

Spots and Stripes

I'm working on a new version of my Squares and Stripes cushion, this time with a mix of lovely spotty fabrics with the stripes, I've used some real favourites fabrics for this cushion. Now its all pieced together I need to have a think about the type of quilting I want to do, I'm itching to start

Quilt and Cake

Tonight's the night for the first Quilt and Cake session that I'm running so I'm just sorting out all the supplies I need to take with me. I have finished quilting the Tumbling Blocks pattern and it is now made up into a cushion, which is going to be the sample for tonight's project.

I feel very excited about this evening but also nervous, wondering if anyone will come along. If nobody turns up at least I will have lots of Karens lovely cakes to eat! Wish me luck

More Squares

Here is the finished quilted cushion

This is a very satisfying pattern to make. I'm going to make up another version with some lovely spotty fabrics

Squares and Stripes

Here's a new pattern I've been working on using my favourite fabrics, checks and stripes.  This shows the cushion top sewn together ready to have its tacking and papers removed

Here's the back with the papers still in - I really like the way this looks with the seam edges showing

and here's the top with tacking and papers removed, waiting to be quilted

Illuminated Windows

I'm still loving this pattern and have made up a new cushion with this lovely stripey fabric

Blocks cushion

I have finished my blocks patchwork cushion. This version is hand pieced and handquilted