Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of November, practicing mindfulness to keep my balance, sharing a practical patchwork tutorial, celebrating Julias Pas de Deux quilt and looking forward to a cozy getaway at year end.
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Star Web is the next patchwork group in my 2024 modern sampler, Positivities, which I am excited to share with you. This group marks the importance of connection, community and companionship to our thriving. Yes, I’m talking about friendship!
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I love this time of year for all the best reasons, but it’s also a nice time to score some deals on fabric. This year let’s shop from home and support these small businesses online. Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
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Today is a special edition of “in the Quilting Studio” because all of the quilts that I will share are from the hand of one talented maker. Sabine Hofferer is a regular longarm quilting customer, on Instagram as @la_boite_a_couleur. She loves sewing with bright, vibrant colors and especially favors fabrics that feature the art of Charley Harper.
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Oh. my. gosh. This quilt top is finished people. FINISHED! That’s four and half years of meditative hand stitching. So many moments, so many journeys, changes and dreams.
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Bright for the gifts and the laughter and the fresh start to come. Color upon color for our love of making, our innermost artsy selves. Shady for the drama of life, its ebb and flow, its birth and death. The bright and the dark mingle, like all this year’s highs and lows, to create something of value. Something as ordinary as it is lovely.
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When I began sketching Positivities the first element that alighted on paper was North Star. It all started with this one block, which set the direction and tone for the quilt. The quilt evolved into a mixture of star, curve and plus elements, floating on a consistent background fabric.
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It began random, but I ended up with a color palette. I put the yellow, orange and brown scraps away and pulled more cool-tone scraps from my crumb fabric baskets in blues, greens and purples, plus pinks and red. It’s still wild and free, with the colors landing mostly by chance, but it has a sort of cool vibe overall.
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But the thing about rainy days is that they’re Perfect for sewing. I love to be inside all cozy and warm when the rain is falling. My fabrics never fail to offer a daily does of pick-me-up color. These days string scraps are overflowing the windowsill and crowding around my ironing board.
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So, you’ve finished that special quilt. Hurrah! Now photograph it, while your enthusiasm is fresh. You don’t need a special camera or a professional set up to take good quilt photographs. I hope that these tips will inspire you to document your creativity in all its original glory. Your quilt is totally worth the trouble!
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There are some quilts which you have to fight for. These are the ones that you know could be good, soooo good, but they only come together with a struggle. It may be because you are stretching yourself with color or design or it may be because this moment in your life enfolds you in stress that blocks or complicates your creative life.
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In today’s post one of my sponsor shops introduces you to a unique garment-sewing program with a year-long subscription gift for one of you lucky ducks! Please welcome, Kate from The Confident Stitch - - -
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My first coins are really hitting the spot! I barely have to think when I match up two fabrics for a strip of coins, especially since my sewing recipe is quite relaxed. Here’s my recipe for a quick, scrappy coin quilt sewn from string scraps.
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