Quilts with words

is finished! I have belonged to this wonderful Spelling Bee for most of this year, ably organised by Elizabeth. The signature blocks She writes more about it here! I started with my go-to straight line quilting, then really branched out to FMQ lots of flowers and other fancy variations! I know I am never going to win any prizes for my quilting... but I sure had a great time doing it! I also did a line of quilting in the words, trying to mimic my handwriting! Trust me, it's not that bad in…

Quilt stats Name: Proverbial Sunshine Design: Proverbial Quilt, Denise Schmidt Size: 75" by 78" Fabric: Scrappy yellow and grey, with Wild Carrot in Straw, Madrona Road, Violet Craft for Michael Miller. Bound with Haystack in Graphite from the same line. Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white Last summer, Krista from Poppyprint started a low key quilt along making use of Denyse Schmidt's Proverbial Quilt pattern. I hopped on board and ordered the pattern. Then I had to think of something…

Oh my, oh my! I am so happy to say this quilt is finished:) Yea!! Yea!! It has been a labor of love to be sure.When I first saw this Block of the Month advertised by Rebecca …

2011 was really a banner year for word quilts for me. I think every quilt I made that year had letters in it. Daft Zebras, 2011 The phrase "How quickly daft jumping zebras vex" is an example of a pangram, a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet at least once. (Another more common example is "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.) I was bored one day and wanted to sew some letters and have some fun with them. I wanted to use black and white fabrics, and make the letters look…

For the last month or two we've been experimental with word-quilts like you see here. I've got reasonably robust Mathematica code to automatically construct a stitching pattern for any set of words, and Nina has found a pleasingly simple combination of font and background pattern to focus

HELLO! “Hello” is a new fabric line by Susan Emory for Michael Miller Fabrics. A blog hop that features this line started a few days ago and I am part of it, too. Today is my turn – I am excited to share my project with you! But first, you should check out the fun […]

here are a couple more quilts that caught my eye at the International Quilt Fair in Birmingham... this was a lovely colourful quilt with applique and embroidered shapes & words all to do with eco living. I also liked this...

Soft patchwork quilt featuring hand-woven check patches on cotton slub. Crafted in India with a plain cotton voile reverse and soft cotton wadding then finished with tactile hand-stitched quilting. ### Details Dry clean only. Outer shell: 100% cotton. Wadding: 100% cotton. Made in India.220cm x 240cm.