Tissue paper pom-poms
For our friends Liz and Dilly's wedding, I made about fifty tissue paper pom-poms. Some were hung inside the marquee from chandeliers strung with bunting, and the rest were hung in the branches of the tree-lined avenue outside, along with jars of candles. The instructions for how to make them are best explained on the Martha Stewart website.
Liz's wedding quilt
My friend Liz is getting married, and at her hen weekend in Bath we each made a square for a patchwork wedding quilt for her. Her maid of honour Anna contacted lots of family all over the world who also made squares. I then had the job of sewing them all together to create this quilt. It's full of stories and memories and hopefully is an heirloom itself now!
Lizzie's quilt
I recently spent a weekend at my mum's house where I slept under a quilt I'd completely forgotten having made years ago for my sister Lizzie. It's a scrap quilt made of lots of snuggly textures - flannel, corduroy, velvet, suede.
Griff's baby quilt
My friend Rhys and his partner Nia recently had a beautiful baby boy called Gruffyd. I made them this baby quilt using scraps of shirting fabric, and simple quilted lines on every other strip block.
Design choices - log cabin quilt layout
I've made some more blocks for my pastel scraps log cabin quilt and they're all now cut to size (7 inch squares) - but the next bit is trying to decide the layout and design. The log cabin blocks have whites and pale strips on two sides, and colours on the other two, giving me a load of layout options that give the quilt different effects. Here they are side by side to try and make deciding between them easier:
1. Straight setting; 2. Pinwheels; 3. Straight furrows;
4. Chevron; 5. Barn raising; 6. Streak of Lightning;
7. Log cabin star; 8. Sunshine and shadows; 9. Shadows and lightning.
In progress - pastel scraps log cabin quilt
I woke up really early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about my sewing Sunday ahead - so I got up and started playing in my studio. I hadn't planned to start a new quilt (I was intending to actually finish some of the several nearly-finished ones that need backing) but began rummaging through some scraps and before I knew it I'd made a couple of these log cabin blocks. I was on a roll, so just kept going! I'm not sure where this will end up - either I'll make a load more and sew them into this light/dark diagonal colourway, or I might mix them up with some half square triangles (I spotted this quilt by April Two Eighty on Pinterest and am quite inspired to do something similar...) I'll keep you posted!
Wreath of tiny fabric scraps
Every time I make a quilt, I hate to throw away all the scraps that are made when I've straightened edges and trimmed blocks. For my colourful pinwheel quilt, the fabric scraps were all such fantastic colours I decided to salvage them and turn them into this wreath! All I used was a wire coat hanger, straightened out and curled into a circle, then the ends taped together with some strong white electrical tape. I spent a happy hour idling on the sofa in front of the fire tying the scraps on while we watched a film, and then finished it by tying a piece of ribbon on to hang it from my studio door.
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