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The Coundown Quilt - Week 6
21 Jun

The Coundown Quilt – Week 6

Dance of the Dryads
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Dance of the Dryads

The Countdown Quilt - Week 5
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The Countdown Quilt – Week 5

The Countdown Quilt - Week 4
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The Countdown Quilt - Week 3
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The Countdown Quilt – Week 3

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Day 7 of the #igquiltfest2021 is all about learnin Day 7 of the #igquiltfest2021 is all about learning and for that there is only one quilt I can share. This is the very first quilt I ever made. This is where my journey to not only teach myself to quilt, but also to figure out quilt design, began. I bought some books, some tools and supplies and off I went. I drafted the pattern, I figured out how much fabrics I needed, I learned how to rotary cut, to piece triangles and squares, to piece and trim half square triangles and flying geese (the hard way), to baste, to quilt and to bind. I have come so very far since this first quilt but it taught me so much and it will always be one of my proudest and most cherished makes as a result! #igquiltfest2021day7 #myfirstquilt #anunnamedquilt #freddiesfirstquilt #learningbydoing #cherishedpossessions
Playing catch up again - here’s the post I meant Playing catch up again - here’s the post I meant to make for #igquiltfest2021day6 but somehow overlooked. The prompt was was “Solids”. I really only use pure as background fabrics in my quilts and over the years I have often reached for darker shade as I love how the colours of main designs really pop against them. #igquiltfest2021 #sewingwithsolids #sawwheelquilt #dancingwavesquilt #quilts
I’m still waiting on the daffodils in the garden I’m still waiting on the daffodils in the garden to make an appearance but indoors they are multiplying. #epp #slowsewing #eppdaffodil #eppdaffy #eppdaffydilly #springsewing #patterntesting #gettingthedesignright
Yesterday’s prompt for the #igquiltfest2021 was Yesterday’s prompt for the #igquiltfest2021 was Contemplate. I intended to share this then, but with yet another covid quarantine threatened it turned out that this was one quilt I really didn’t want to contemplate yesterday. These are the blocks for my Countdown Quilt. There are 100 blocks, all of them designed by me and English Paper Pieced from Liberty and a mix of white tone-on-tone fabrics. The blocks were stitched over the course of a mostly normal year as a countdown to my 50th birthday last May. They were meant as a celebration but when May rolled around celebration was really the last thing on our minds. These blocks have been sitting in a drawer ever since then. There is so much to contemplate on in these blocks. They are a reminder to me of normal, of celebration, of travel and life as we knew it. There is so much joy and promise in them that I think I almost refuse to let them be associated with reminders of these covid times. While part of me dearly wants to piece these together and finally make that quilt, the other half of me want to wait. To wait for normal. To wait till we can travel and see and celebrate with all our loved ones that we so dearly miss. Having shared these blocks I will now return them to their drawer, I will contemplate their future and how I will eventually piece them and the Countdown Quilt will quietly continue it’s countdown to a new celebration as yet undefined. #epp #slowsewing #thecountdownquilt #libertyfabric #piecedwuthaurifil #blocksofcelebration #igquiltfest2021day5
Distraction, denial, or whatever you want to call Distraction, denial, or whatever you want to call it. Some days you just want to dive into those things you enjoy and leave the world behind. #epp #slowsewing #eppdaffodil #eppdaffy #eppdaffydilly #sewingwithsunprints #patterndesign #nomorequarantineplease #fingerscrossed #touchwood
Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few peo Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few people ask me if I had a copy of my EPP daffodil pattern for sale anywhere. The good news is that I am working on it. I spent yesterday tweaking the design to make sure it prints properly. I also got some Sun Prints out to play to make sure it sews just as well in quilting cottons as it does in Liberty. I’m happy to say it does and today I have another pretty daffodil in full bloom. There are a few more small tweaks to make and I plan to sew one last test today or tomorrow to make sure I am happy with everything. All going well I should have a pattern for you all at the start of next week. #epp #slowsewing #eppdaffodil #eppdaffy #eppdaffydilly #sunprintfabrics #patterndesign #sewingspring
Creative hands to design and cut and baste and sew Creative hands to design and cut and baste and sew. #igquiltfest2021day4 #igquiltfest2021 #epp #slowsewing #eppdaffodil
Those of you who have followed me for a long time Those of you who have followed me for a long time will remember that when I first started EPP I started by designing a whole series of Liberty butterflies. Fast forward many years and those butterflies have still never made it onto a quilt, but only because I could never find a background fabric I was really happy with. All that changed a few weeks ago when @dittanym posted a photo of a scrap of Liberty’s David Joe that she intended to use. I knew there an then I had finally seen the fabric that would make the perfect backing because it reminded me so much of my favourite photograph of the butterflies from way back in 2015 when I captured them sitting on our primrose covered lawn. One (online) shopping trip to Japan later and the fabric was ordered. Today it arrived and I cannot tell you how excited I was to open that package. I have found my dream background! I have pressed it and scattered the butterflies all over it and it is perfection. I cannot wait to finally progress this quilt top, so no guesses as to what my sewing plans for March will be! I‘m going to join in the slowstitchalong being hosted by Emma @vintagesewingbox Zoe @zoemayson and Leela @missleela_handmade this month to keep myself on track. I won’t get this quilt anywhere close to finished but I hope to get as many of the butterflies as I can appliquéd in place by the end of the month! #epp #slowsewing #eppbutterflies #worththewait #libertyfabric #yearsinthemaking #somethingsareworththewait #epplibertybutterfly #epplibertybutterflies
Today‘s prompt for the #igquiltfest is Collabora Today‘s prompt for the #igquiltfest is Collaborations. I have only ever collaborated one one quilt which is this, Peak‘s Sunset. It was created for the 2018 Quiltcon charity quilt challenge by the Peaks Posse, a group of the lovely ladies I frequently have the pleasure of attending the Patchwork in the Peaks retreat with. #igquiltfest2021day3 #peakssunset #quiltchallenge #peaksposse
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