Judy Murphy has finished her Triangle Log Cabin – hurrah! Go see on www.quiltparadigm.blogspot.co.uk
Lakes and Tents
We love this use of the Lakes range, it brings out their stronger elements. Val teaches hand appliqué in British Columbia/Alberta [Canada]:
“I made this for a presentation on the work of the Tentmakers of Cairo. I spent a lot of time in the Middle East and took a class with Jenny Bowker and am fascinated by the work. The pattern is by Ahmed Atef Fattoh / Hany Fattoh Shop from the book The Ancient Art of Appliqué – patterns from the tentmakers of Cairo, published by AQS. The tentmakers have given patterns to the book and share the royalties, so hopefully promoting the book helps a little as tourism in Egypt has taken a hit.
Oakshott appliques beautifully so I sell it to my appliqué groups. I wanted to showcase Lakes and this was a perfect project as the tentmakers use solid colours. I haven’t quilted it yet as I can’t decide what I want to do with it.”
If anybody has any ideas on what to do next share them with us here or with Val on dwojtula@shaw.ca
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Shott up
The backbone of our collections, the Colourshott range, has gone even more ‘premier’ with a slightly heavier weave in a 54″ width and with an extra 27 colours! We are planning to re-introduce the fantastic Colourbox (containing all 57 colours) for Christmas.
Fat Quarterly have had a sneak preview and are running a competition.
www.liveacolorfullife.net have a wonderful explanation of shot cottons.