The World is your Oyster!

With too many commitments and too little time, I nearly missed the deadline for the competition quilts submission for the Festival of Quilts this year! 

Yet, Phew! All packed and shipped today. :)

This boats quilt from Cotton & Steel is my personal toy! With simple - but effective!)) - pattern for the boats and a huuuuge negative space, the quilt gave me endless opportunities to quilt it to death!))) And so I did) Inspired and empowered by the talented longarm quilter and teacher Angela Walters! xx

The techniques I used:

Freezer paper-piecing method to make the boats

Organic free-motion quilting for negative space, i.e., no marking

Materials used:

Solid cottons mostly from Michael Miller Cotton Couture range

Prints from Art Gallery Fabrics and Liberty.

Quilters Dream Request 100% cotton wadding (very thin!)

Size: 145x145cm

This quilt is not the only quilt that will have my name on it at the Festival of Quilts this year! ;) 
Three amazingly talented quilters - Jo Avery (@mybearpaw), Jenny Haynes(@peppersaxsten) and Sheila Scott - have submitted their quilts to the FOQ where I had an honour and a priviledge to longarm quilt their beautiful quilts! 
So, overall, there will be 4 quilts from me! At the very least, I should get a recognition for the quantity, if not for the quality!!! :-)))

Life is Sweet!

Hey, the winter in Scotland has been tough this year - with lots of rain, well, as normal :) 

That's why I needed something light and sweet to look at and enjoy! Very handy, Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine had this sweetest quilt from the Australian designer Jemima Flendt in their last issue - I could not walk by)) 

Even more handy, the design is very quick and easy - which helped to finish it, he-he :)) 

And another great thing about it - I had all the fabrics from Michael Miller wonderful collection of Cotton Couture fabrics. They are soft pastels in wonderful shades - just perfect for this sweet thing. 

All I have left now is to look at and admire! ;) xx