Autumn Garden Quilt

I spent the weekend in Derby with my 3 favourite girls!

My eldest daughter turned 21 at the end of October and it was so lovely celebrating with her in the most inspiring surroundings!

Autumn is such a beautiful season. But it's time to put on an extra layer, turn the thermostat up another few notches, and bring out the cosy quilts.

The November issue of Popular Patchwork is in the shops, and in it you'll find my Autumn Garden Quilt.

This is a small quilt (53" square), but I'm a little bit in love with it (I love curvilicious quilts)!!

For a while now I've been wanting to make the 'drunkard's path' flower, and I think the saturated tones of Denyse Schmidt's Chicopee and Shelburne Falls give these flowers a cosy autumnal feel.

I've used my trusty Essex Yarn Dyed linen (black) for the background and whizzed the fabrics through my Sizzix Drunkard's Path dies (657168 fan background & 657169 quarter circle).

And this quilt could easily translate into another season (think fresh Spring fabrics!).

I hope you are keeping warm and cosy this Autumn!

Happy sewing!

Jude xo

Bee Block Bonanza!

I support 2 charity quilting groups - Bee Blessed and Siblings Together.

This means making different blocks for them each month, which is a non-demanding way of supporting these wonderful causes.

Here is a wee round up of my recent bee blocks.

In Bee Blessed, we were making Woven blocks in pastels for September .....

.... and Wonky Cross blocks in 'male appropriate' colours for October.

In Siblings Together Bee 2 I got to set the block for September, and requested Canvas blocks, in any 2 colour-ways.  Here are what I have received from the other ladies in the bee:

I only need to make 5 more blocks, and after putting it out for consultation (asking a few sewing friends on FB!) it was decided that I should make the remaining blocks in purple, yellow, pink & green!

October's blocks in STB2 are these fabulously scrappy 16" blocks.  These were so much fun to make, because they were scrappy (my fav) and the irregular improv angles meant they were super quick too!

So that's me up-to-date with my bee commitments!

And it's half-way through October already!  So I'll leave you with a few of my recent Autumn pics!

Happy scrunching!

Jude xo

Almost Autumn!

It would seem that Autumn is just around the corner!

Lots of evidence of it today on our lovely picnic and walk around Crawfordsburn Country Park.

Of course that means a new term of sewing projects for me.  Can you guess what type of projects I've started working on?

I'm not even going to mention the 'C' word, but that's how I'll be spending my last few days of summer!

Happy sewing!

Jude xo