MAY 2020: Stripes, stripes all the way!
Hello Quilty People! Some of the most popular quilt patterns are basically stripes, think Rail Fence and Chinese Coins. And jelly-roll races... And there is much fun to be had with strips and stripes of an uneven or a regular style. So, I have made a page of book reviews from inspiring makers of a strippy persuasion - CLICK HERE to have a lookAnd the usual Pinterest Page has proved to be astonishingly easy this time - CLICK HERE to see what I found.
If you like a more irregular style of strip you will certainly enjoy TIGERS this is a link to my step-by-step tutorial, to make blocks like those in this month's header image. These are great stash-busters and users-of-odd-fabrics...
Of course we are always open to contributions - if you would like to offer a free pattern or a book review please do get in touch...
HH and AitchBee
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To help you keep in touch with friends and family at the moment we have spent this last few weeks developing a range of fabric postcard kits. Fun to make and lovely to receive, fabric postcards travel well through the post - click on the pictures below to see each of our selections
Postcards by HH, click on the pic to see her kits
AitchBee busy packing postcard kits
If you haven't had a chance to see Maria's work before I would recommend that you click through to her website where she talks about making her own 'patterned' fabric from plains. Yes, unbelievably, all those little stripey sections are pieced not printed.
I make no excuses for featuring Maria's work twice in quick succession, she truly is a Queen of the art of the stripe. This link will take you through to the Quilting Daily website where Maria has an article about how she makes her stripes.
We promised you a tutorial in making very very skinny, inset, strips and here i is. This will take you to an old, but none the less interesting blog called "...And then we set it on fire". Kathy Loomis has this down to a fine art and shares the secret with us!
We loved the bright green backing on this quilt - as well as those two little pink lines in the bottom right had corner! Svetlana's blog provides some interesting content as well as links to fun and useful tutorials
This link will take you to an article on Lynne's Patchery Menagerie blog where she plays with the layout of some of her stripey blocks producing very different quilts from the same blocks. This blog is a perennial favourite of ours, a great source of colour inspiration.
Christine is a talented artist and designer, skilled in multiple creative disciplines, but she obviously has a thing for stripes when when it comes to quilts! Have a look around her website, you won;t be disappointed. In addition to this design, which is available to purchase as a pattern so you can make your very own, she has lots of other interesting quilts to see.
Strips, stripes, string piecing and lines, always lots to see and hopefully spark some ideas.
Click on the link to go to our new Book Review page. Have a look at what we have been enjoying recently.
The original version of this quilt was designed by Helen for OAKSHOTT FABRICS Click on the picture to go to the tutorial for this block on Helen's website. Since originally designing the block, Helen must have made thousands of them, they are always a popular choice for demonstrations and make great group quilts since the block is trimmed after making so they can all be cut to a consistent size.
Matt & Donna have kindly put the pattern up for this quilt as a free download. Have a look around their store while you are there.
This little purse or pencil case (depending on which way you join it) is a case in point. Quilt as you go with 1 inch strips it is just one of a number of tutorials on my website including the promised 'Adding a Border' tutorial.
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