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Earth Gradations

We’ve just had a photo of a gorgeous quilt top using a full range of earth elements shot cottons from Sarah at {no} hats in the house, who said:

I’m a bit partial to the (more underrated?) neutrals in your collection … so tell me, will you be introducing any browns/tans/etc. back into the lineup?

and our answer is:

We still have a few Earth colours left and are likely to be bringing back some earth and tan tones in Autumn 2015.

Meanwhile feast your eyes on her quilt top and read full details of how Sarah achieved the gradation of colour on the blog:

Gradient fill; Layer cake
Gradient fill; Layer cake
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Full of Beans

Victoria Findlay Wolfe used Lipari (on the left) and Italy (on the right)

Bumblebeansinc.blogspot uses Lipari and Italy
Bumblebeansinc.blogspot uses Lipari and Italy

Teaching is great fun, but I get so many ideas watching everyone else that it kills me that I don’t get to sew! So! I came home and HAD TO MAKE SOMETHING with these pretties.”

See more on her blog  www.bumblebeansinc.blogspot.co.uk

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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.”

A Tentmakers of Cairo pattern
A Tentmakers of Cairo pattern

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

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A Charm Pack of Colourshott colours

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.