Something "old"...

I don't have anything new to show you today. The week has been quite busy! And I am not working more than one day a week! But this week I have been teaching a class at my local quilt shop, Kreativ Quilt, and I had a lot to prepare before the class. And I have some homework to do before the next class! I have only done this once before, and it is many years ago! The purse I showed you in the previous post is one of the things they are making. The block is based on a pattern designed by Jan Mullen, an autralian designer. She has many fun patterns and books using her crazy cutting and sewing methods!

But the quilt I am showing you today was made during a couple of hot summerdays in 2006. I was staying outside in the sun ironig and cutting fabrics one day and sewing the quilt next day! It was fun, easy and quick! I need some quick machinepiecing projects between and during my slow handpiecing projects! It is a "Turning twenty" pattern. You make your whole quilt out of 20 FQ. You have nothing left, you use every inch of the fabric. Well, you might have an inch or two left, but not more than that! It also works great with 12" wof pieces (30cm) (very common in Norway), but then you will have more scraps!

The fabric choices has its own story. I went to visit my good friend at her shop. She had just received some new fabrics, and she could not remember why they had ordered them, or by the way, ordering them at all!! We went to take a look at them. After a while I said; wait a minute, they are not that bad! And then we started picking fabrics to match these two. And voila, we had fabrics for a whole quilt, and they looked gorgeous!!

All the fabrics left the shop with me(how strange!) And so they did with her! I added some fabrics from my stash (clever girl!) When I was working on it, I realized that something was missing, and what was missing was the colour green. I went back to my stash, picked some green fabrics, and ended up with only one green fabric, and it was perfect! I called my friend to tell her. She had come to the same conclusion! She told me what fabric she had chosen and I started laughing; but that's the same fabric I choose!! This is not the first time this has happend and will not be the last!This is how my quilt turned out to be. You can see her quilt here. They are selling pattern and kits for the quilt.

PS. If you think they should update their website, they are working on it! But they have had some serious web problems for a long time! As soon as that is fixed, you will see a lot of new photos in the gallerie, and new patterns in their webshop! But it is still possible to order the patterns you see in the shop! DS

I will show you photos from the class later this week, if the ladies allowes me to take pics of them and what they are making!