All the Pretty Threads

WIP: Tula Pink City Sampler

June 16, 2013 by Aimee

This week has flown by and I feel like I have not had a chance to do much sewing, so I was pleasantly surprised whilst editing pictures for this post that I had managed to complete 10 new blocks for the City Sampler sew along!

I have taken pictures as I have completed each block so you may have already seen these on instagram. I plan to take more pictures of them all together when I have completed a few more.

The first 15 blocks were designed using different sizes of crosses. Blocks 16 to 35 use various size rectangles.

I am loving searching through all my Tula Pink fabric scraps to construct these blocks.

Don’t forget if you want to join me and sew a City Sampler quilt of your own, you can buy the book here and find out more about the sew along here.

Aimee xx

Swoon: A Quilt in Progress

June 9, 2013 by Aimee

I am proud to announce I have completed piecing the blocks for the Swoon quilt top!

I started sewing these blocks in March and there are 9 in total. Each block took me around an hour to piece together, although with constant interruptions this stretched out over a couple of days – if I got 2 blocks completed a week I was happy!

So Friday night I finally had all 9 blocks done and, after auditioning the blocks in different lineups, I joined them together with the sashing.

Next step is to baste the quilt and figure out how I want to quilt it. I am going to have a look through the Swoon Flickr pool to get some inspiration!

Have a great Sunday!

Aimee xx

The Chicken or the Egg?

June 2, 2013 by Aimee

No this is not a farmyard story! I just thought this title was relevant to how I have been feeling about my blog of late – you may have noticed that I have not posted anything since March:) I am a terrible blogger! Truth be told I have been busy with life in general and [...]

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Pixelated Heart Quilt

March 21, 2013 by Aimee

Good evening readers! I have finally taken some pictures of my latest quilt to share with you all. I saw this quilt pattern on instagram and I knew I had to make one. I had been hoarding scraps of fabric from various Amy Butler designs and I knew this would be the perfect project to [...]

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Completed: Tranquil Waters

February 18, 2013 by Aimee

I really love this quilt. The pattern is Tranquil Waters by Tula Pink available here, the fabrics used are Salt Water by Tula Pink available here. This was a really easy quilt to piece together – I recommend it to beginner quilters through to those with more experience. The chevron pattern the rows create looks amazing and [...]

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WIP Wednesday

February 13, 2013 by Aimee

This week I have been hand quilting my Tranquil Waters quilt using perle thread. I machine quilted it first following the chevron pattern, then I attached the binding and am hand quilting now. I am not one for following standard quilting rules – are you? I fell in love with the pixelated heart quilts that [...]

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