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slostudio home quilts features shop tutorials archive class photoset layout english paper pieced dresden block i ve been wanting to make new pillow covers for a while to replace the ones that i made about 5 years ago which have been very well used and worn i figured i would take the opportunity of having more time at home to do some hand sewing english paper piecing i decided on dresden blocks using a pull of carolyn friedlander fabrics i used free dresden templates from occasional piece quilts i have used her templates before for a bag i made several years ago they work perfectly with 2 5 x 5 pieces of fabric which is half a charm square a great project if you have some charm squares around i just printed one sheet of templates traced shapes onto thicker cardstock for piecing and cut them out by hand i finished off the first patchwork section the other day which i ll appliqué to a solid colour background i think i ll leave the centre open like a ring or wreath i ll start on a second one so i have a pair of pillows i may hand quilt these as well or at least add some hand stitching around somewhere mar 24 2020 dresden plate carolyn friedlander hand sewing english paper piecing stitching handwork fabric 23 notes class photoset layout inside outside pouch last weekend which at this point feels like a million years ago i picked up aneela hoey s pattern for an inside outside pouch on her website i really love aneela s pouch patterns which have interesting and inventive designs luckily i had the fabric and notions needed for the project including some vinyl that i bought years ago but had never got around to using for anything since we were staying home anyway i had the time to mostly finish it in an afternoon the hand binding was probably the trickiest part especially around the bottom corners otherwise it was a great straightforward pattern to follow the final pouch is so cute and very functional i ve been using it already for a new english paper piecing project i ve been working on i hope you are all keeping safe and healthy mar 22 2020 insideoutsidepouch aneela hoey pouch vinyl sewing stiching project bag stay home and sew 17 notes hst wedding quilt last may 2019 i finished up this quilt for some friends our ours who got married i wanted to make a quilt for them that had the same clean lines and modern feeling as their house and decor i made a bunch of hst blocks and arranged in a kind of gradient mostly greys and neutrals with a few pops of colour in between around that time i went to a workshop with the ottawa modern quilt guild with johanna masko on hand quilting i brought this quilt along to work on and added hand quilting to several blocks around the quilt i finished it off with straight line quilting my favourite and contrast binding i was really happy with how it turned out and the recipients really liked it too quilty details 70 square for a large lap quilt mix of fabrics mostly kona cotton and prints from art gallery fabrics backing and binding is a guicy guice quantam print from andover straight line quilted at 0 5 spacing using wonderfil 40 wt thread with additional hand quilting using dmc perle cotton 8 size i liked how the hand quilting was actually not too visible from afar but gave a lot of texture when you have it up close on your lap i think i ll try to add more of that hand quilted touch on more projects in the future mar 7 2020 quilting modern quilt half square triangles hand quilting johanna masko hst quilt grey quilt triangle quilt 18 notes class photoset layout weight of love quilt finished it took over 4 years but i finally finished the weight of love quilt that i started with libs elliott back when i first moved to ottawa it was my one project that for whatever reason just never seemed to get done i left it less than half pieced for about 3 years i didn t touch it after our workshop at a retreat in 2018 i finished up the patchwork section but then i waited about another year before appliquéing it on to a backing fabric then i finally quilted it up this past november quilty details libs elliott s weight of love quilt pattern started in a workshop with her back in 2015 approximately 65 square finished used a combination of kona cotton and cotton and steel basics patchwork section is pieced with y seams appliqued the pieced section on top of solid fabric i didn t cut out the back so it s extra thick under the patchwork straight line quilted on my domestic with 1 2 spacing using wonderfil 40 wt thread backing and binding in cotton and steel basics i m so glad to have this long time work in progress done do you have any projects like this that just take years mar 3 2020 libs elliott weight of love quilting modern quilt hexagons y seams applique 58 notes class photoset layout grid triangle quilt finished hello it s been a while a long while i hope you are doing well i haven t posted in over a year 2019 was a tough one for me for many reasons that i won t get into here the result was that i didn t do very much sewing and didn t feel much like blogging either but i want to get back into sharing my projects i always thought of this blog as something for me a catalogue of the projects i ve worked on since i started making quilts and i want to continue that i plan to post about some quilts from last year that i haven t shared yet here in the meantime you can also check out my instagram slostudio thanks for reading now on to the post i started this quilt last summer using a fat quarter bundle from alanna at fridays off a canadian online shop that specializes in monthly fabric subscriptions i didn t get to finish it up until january my first finish of the 2020 quilty details size is approximately 48 x 60 fabric is the grid collection by katerina roccella from art gallery fabrics plus a mix of kona cottons all equilateral triangles with some longer strips at the sides straight line quilted at 1 2 spacing my favourite using wonderful 40 wt thread backing is another print from art gallery and binding is a cotton and steel basic it was fun to take this pics in the backyard with ollie watching me curiously you can see him in one of the pictures with his winter coat on i really like how this one turned out i will always love using high contrast especially black and white fabrics mixed with all the colour i think this one would make a fun baby quilt or toddler quilt we will see where it finds its home feb 29 2020 quilting triangles abstract modern quilt modern quilting 23 notes farmer s wife quilt a project that i ve been working on for a while is the farmer s wife quilt from the book by laurie aaron hird which i started back in april 2017 at a workshop with johanna masko hosted by the ottawa modern quilt guild i just finished my 25th block last week which was a milestone but the book has 110 blocks so i still have a long way to go i hadn t laid the blocks out in a while i m liking how the colours are coming together i m just using kona cotton and carolyn friedlander prints for this one feb 15 2019 quilting fabric patchwork kona solids work in progress quilt block farmers wife quilt 97 notes friendly faces project i ve been having fun the last few weeks working on a project using heidi kenney s friendly faces fabric panel i cut up the panel to blocks and i m mixing in scraps to make these irish chain inspired blocks i intentionally designed the block to use 2 5 squares and strips because i pre cut my scraps to standard sizes 2 5 squares and strips and have boxes full of them so this one has minimal cutting needed i ll just keep going if i use the entire panel this could make a twin sized quilt ps happy new year i haven t been around in the blog for a while but i ve got some posts i m drafting to get caught up it s just around my 5 year anniversary of blogging this month feb 11 2019 quilting sewing modern quilt quilt fabric patchwork work in progress quilt block irish chain 20 notes class photoset layout ultra violet quilt finished this week i finished up the quilt i started earlier this year during the pantone color of the year quilt challenge hosted by sarah sharp and rebecca bryan i had actually finished binding this one a while back but it wasn t straight and that was bothering me so i took the binding off one side trimmed it and re did the binding i m much happier with it now for the time being some of the photos of that process are up on my instagram stories about this quilt quilty details 55 x 68 finished size improvisationally pieced no templates mostly freehand cuts with my rotary cutter used a variety of prints and solids including the text prints from first of infinity by lecien fabrics matchstick quilted on my domestic that is straight lines close together about 1 4 apart i m happy that this one is done it s the only one that i ll enter this year to quiltcon i think it will be tough competition in the improv category as it always is i m not sure this one will make the cut but regardless i want to make the effort to try to submit something annually nov 25 2018 quilt modern quilt quilting pantone color of the year ultraviolet ultra violet improv quilt improv quilting 91 notes please enable javascript to view the comments powered by disqus blog comments powered by disqus next home quilts features shop tutorials archive observer theme by zack sultan