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Designer of the cool, crisp Oakshott Hint quilt, Leanne Chahley, has won a ribbon at the Quilt Canada National Juried Show with her minimalist design Echoes:
Do catch up on all her news and some really encouraging, useful and entertaining comments on why you should enter your quilts to these competitions on her blog: shecanquilt
and once again, CONGRATULATIONS LEANNE, keep on designing …
It is always exciting to the creative spirit in us to see how Oakshott shot cottons inspire the development of a pattern. The wonderful Krista Hennebury has supplied us with the chance to show such a development in glorious technicolor.
In the beginning was a pack of 10 Colourshotts that turned into Chess on the Steps (available as a quilt kit):
Then came an Alaskan cruise and 18 quilters and Krista’s Improv Under the Influence technique class and a chance to play with one of four Alaskan-themed colourways.
Spot the ones who used the Midnight Sun theme (based on Chess on the Steps) and now click on to feast your eyes on the other colourways …
The very busy Karen Lewis has been doing some dreamy work in Leeds using Scandinavia on a kaleidoscope block (out of Joyce Gieszler’s book Then and Now Quilts).
Do visit her Karen Lewis Textiles blog to see more pics and her working process. She said things like:
I wanted to print a design that would leave a lot of the beautiful Oakshott fabric showing through
It is a paper pieced pattern which is a process I have actually grown to love
I settled on the idea of a matchstick spiral
I think I may be a convert to this method [for binding]…it used half the fabric…what’s not to love?
As for the original bundle of Scandinavia shot cottons…what a dream they were to print on and sew with…I will certainly be doing that again.
and here’s the final result:
We’ve just uploaded a new free booklet to our free patterns page on the website, on the Instant Colour page and right here!
Thanks to Sew Mama Sew you can dabble in some quick fashion fixes with six new totes that each use a Lipari Fat 8ths Pack. The booklet tells you a bit about each designer and takes you to their blog for the tutorials and patterns.
Don’t forget to send us a picture of how you have interpreted these great patterns.
Great to see what’s been done with an Oakshott Scandinavia giveaway via Leanne ‘She can Quilt’.
Really interesting post about the design and set up process by Teje who is from Finland but based in Greece.
We’ve just had a pic from Quilt Paradigm, or Judy Murphy, of her use of a Fat Eighth of Colourshotts. She’s called it Nod to Gee’s Bend and her two posts are a great walk through the design process, first on What? Another WIP? and then the pre-quilting shots on A Nod to Gee’s Bend or Tribute to FLW?
The entire quilt is Oakshott Colorshotts. The borders on the sides was leftover fabric from Off Course! The quilting plan is some straight line quilting following the sewing lines in the triangles and squares and then some FMQing on the borders. I’m pretty excited about getting this one finished! The strips finish at 1 inch. Took awhile to sew this one! 🙂
Looking forward to seeing the final quilting.
Lynne Goldsworthy of Lily’s Quilts has brought together eight projects from eight fantastic designers based in the UK, the USA and Australia, using Oakshott Scandinavia. They are going out over the next two weeks and all the hops are listed out below so you can come back to this post and see where to go to next:
Lynne says:
Scandinavia is a line of shot cottons shot with cream so that they create a beautiful gentle palette and I am so excited to see what everyone is going to do with them.
The blog hop stops are listed out below and I hope you enjoy the inspiration you find there. Bear in mind that different time zones may mean that the posts appear later on in the day.
4 May – Sarah Sharp
5 May – Heather Scrimnscher
6 May – Amy Sinibaldi
7 May – Rossie Hutchinson
11 May – Elaine Poplin
12 May – Sarah Fielke
13 May – Nicholas Ball
14 May – Lori Landerberger
Earlier this year we marvelled at the eight stunning designs that came out of a bloghop run by Lynne Goldsworthy (see the individual ones in earlier posts). Now we have drawn them together into one of our FREE ezines so you can choose which design to start with! Each quilt uses a selection from the 27 vibrant colours in a 10″ Square Pack of Colourshott 31-57 and the booklet tells you a bit about each designer and gives you the link to their pattern tutorial (covering topics like foundation piecing, 60 degree and half rectangle triangles, hourglass blocks, bias tape for appliqué, 6-patch trip around the world block).
So download the booklet here (or from the Instant Colour page, where you will find the others in the series) and meanwhile, have a go at matching the squares from each quilt off the front cover design:
We’ve just heard from Krista Hennebury (award winning designer extraordinaire of Improv Under the Influence© fame, read her blog Poppyprint):
I thought you might enjoy seeing your divine fabric pictured in the Arctic beside a real honest-to-goodness igloo (okay, it was built for the Sunrise Festival welcoming back the sun on January 7th, no one is actually living in it, but it is a traditional igloo!). I was teaching Chess on the Steps in Inuvik, North West Territories in Canada’s Arctic last weekend and took the opportunity to bring some quilts for show and tell, including Lynne [Goldsworthy]’s Lonestar Circle she designed for my book Make It, Take It.
You too could make Krista’s fabulous modern quilt; go to her blog page to read the fascinating story behind the design, which has previously featured as a Modern Quilt Guild pattern of the month. It was inspired by an unnamed antique quilt and Krista’s interpretation is a colour study using five related warm-coloured and five related cool-coloured Colourshotts.
The complete Quilt Kit containing the pre-cut fabrics and pattern is available to buy online from Oakshott Fabrics.
If you’re itching to get your hands on Scandinavia, then pop over to Red Pepper Quilts on Sunday 29 March. It could just be your lucky day!
