Wednesday 29 July 2015

Our In House Workshop 'Mystic Mountains' with Joan proved to be very popular.  Joan was very busy buzzing between all the participants.  As usual, the different array of fabric colours chosen made for a large variety of stunning combinations.  It was, however, quite easy to make a mistake and distractions did cause  a few hiccups!

Part 2 of the workshop will continue next week for those that don't finish them at home.

Very busy ladies

Margaret going well with her choice of green, red and white
at the workshop

Show and Tell

Joan's huge quilt 'Floral Cornucopia'  made with Kaffe Fassett
fabrics. It is one huge mass of flowers

Brenda's intricate quilt done with curved foundation piecing.
The Fire Island Hosta  design  is by Judy Neimeyer.
 Fabrics are from Patchwork Paradise and it is quilted by 
Lisa Warne at Quick Quilts

Di's '12 Days of Christmas' made in the Shadow Box Design.
 The embroidery was done by Heather C.

 Heather W's  China Doll quilt. Each doll has a different
 oriental fabric dress and different styled  hair.

Reverse of Heather's quilt

Close up of the favourite doll

Here is a mini photo workshop from Di for finishing off binding. 

This tip ensures the binding is joined accurately and sits flat.

(If you can't follow the instructions, Di will shortly do a In-house Demo on this.)

This example uses a 2 1/2"binding. It will work perfectly though for all binding widths.

1. Attach binding, leaving an overlap gap of approx 8"

2.  Cut off a small piece of fabric from one overlap approx 1"

3.  Open out cut piece ( example 2 1/2" x 1" when open)

4.  Line up the cut piece with the  2 1/2" length (width of binding)
 under the top binding along the bottom overlap

5.  Trim top overlap excess back to cut edge of open piece.
Then join ends of  binding on bias as usual.