Quilt show and market

Had a great day yesterday at the Expo Veldhoven.

So many quilts to see... the highlights for me were the works of Colette Berends. Her portraits are so realistic, so artistic and such a creative use of materials.














The Dinner at Eight Artists with their quilts themed "Rituals" were also one of my favorites, some I had seen pictures of on the internet or in magazines, but it was great to see them up close.




I made more pictures but I still need to edit those and I will make a video of them and post them soon.


And there were loads of shops, and of course I got myself some goodies..;)

Some red and blues for the DJ, a couple of books, a new (larger size) rotary cutter..
I'm off now to play with Jane!

'till next time...
Essie

The end is in sight for row B..

Finished three more blocks in row B, only more block to do and row B will be finished.

Glad Block B-6 is finally done, took quite long to do, so many tiny pieces!!..43 to be exact.

It is called "Wild Goose Chase", it is foundation pieced.

Was a little worried about the block not being straight but it turned out pretty straight, even though the picture is a little off. 

Can't rotate the picture when I edit them so I need to get them as straight as possible when I take the picture, not very easy..

Block B-11, "Melissa's Cross".

The block Brenda has drafted in her book looked very different from Jane's version so I decided to redraft it.

The center cross is traditionally pieced, the half moon shapes were appliqued to the corner triangles before they were added to the center cross.

Block B-12, "Star Flower".

This one is reverse appliqued.

The center and the four melons were

adjusted slightly to make some space in between 

them to allow for the seam allowances to 

be turned under.

Will try to finish the final block for row B on Sunday.

Tomorrow my friend Joke and I are visiting the 

Expo in Veldhoven.

Really looking forward to seeing all the quilts that are on display.

To name a few there will be quilts from the Dinner at Eight Artists, Colette Berends, Wil Fritsma, Ineke van Unen and many more. 

Also there will be lots of shops to visit and I'll probably won't be able to resist...LOL. 

Maybe I can find some more red and blue fabrics to use in my DJ. 

I am going to take as many pictures as I can and put them into a video which I will be posting soon.

Have a great weekend!!

Essie

Still working on my red and blue Janes...

This is what I'm working on right now... 

it is block B-6, "Wild Goose Chase"

For the most part it is foundation pieced.

I did finish up some blocks as well:

Block B-8, "Water Lily".

I really liked this block, it is traditionally pieced

and the melons are appliqued as last.

Block B-9, "Tinker Toy".

This block can be made using different techniques.

Reverse aplique, English piecing but I decided to traditionally piece 

this one as the pieces were big enough. The HST corners were set in last.

B-10, Jud's Trophy".

Middle section is foundation pieced, and the surrounding 

borders are traditionally pieced

A little wonky but it will do! 

With these 3 blocks my total is now 21 blocks. (only 148 squares to go...LOL)

But.. seeing as we've had 17 weeks this year so far that puts me on average slightly above my goal of 1 block per week, so I can't complain really!!

I'm going to try hard to finish row B by this time next week, so fingers crossed nothing comes up..

'Till next time,

Essie

Back with Jane

I'm back on track with some more Dear Jane blocks..

First in Row B is called "Batchelor Buttons"

and is reverse appliqued using a freezer paper

template for accurate circles.

Block B-2, for this one I made two pinwheel blocks in
opposite colors.

One block was then cut out in a circle
and appliqued onto the other pinwheel block.

It is called "Sweet Tater Pie".









This is the last block in row B, block 13 called
"Four Corner Press"

What can I say?.. an easy one.
Looks a little wonky in the picture, but it is straight.





Blocks B-6, B-8, B-9 and B-10 are already in the making an hopefully will post them on Sunday. After that only 4 more and row B will be finished. Wonder how long it took Jane to make this quilt??

Have a great weekend!
Essie

Busy, busy, busy..

I have been very busy the last few weeks. Between some spring cleaning, having my in-laws visiting for almost 2 weeks and helping my own mother who is now in hospital for a new hip(..to name but a few)...somehow I managed to do some quilting.

I did a little bit of this, some free motion quilting:

The blocks I posted about before are now all together in a quilt, don't want to show too much yet as this is for the OEQC in October but this is a part of it :

And also done some of this, it is hand drawn with a black waterproof marker then colored in with brown

Need to get back to making some more Dear Jane blocks too..some are nearly finished and will post them sometime later this week. Little behind now, but still on my schedule of 1 block per week (..only just though).

'Till next time..

Essie

In the spotlight..

Remember this quilt?


A little while ago I was contacted by Elizabeth from Twi-quilters, a blog made by quilters that are dedicated to making quilts related to Twilight.
They had come across my Twilight quilt and asked me if I wanted to be a guest on their blog.
Well, of course I would!!!...take a look at my guest post here.

XXX  Essie

Broken promises..

Plan was to have row A of the Dear Jane finished the end of february but things don't always go as planned.  In my defense though.. I caught a nasty head cold shortly after my last post.  And with all the sneezing, coughing and watery eyes I couldn't get much done.
So this week I have been catching up and this is what I have done so far:

A-11

 "Pebble's Protest" this block is called.
 Partly foundation pieced and partly traditionally
 pieced. Probably the hardest block in row A.
 Turned out ok in the end.

A-12

This one is called "Framed Fancy" and apart 

from the outside triangles it is foundation pieced. 

Pretty straight forward, although

with all the tiny pieces 

and all the bulk of seams not 

so easy to get right.

B-3

A traditionally pieced block.

Four drunkard path blocks. 

Not so difficult, if you don't mind the 

curves that is!

B-4

It is called "Mirror Image".

Another easy one for row B, 

this one is 

called "Chris's Soccer Field", 

and is foundation pieced.

Love the rose in the center!

Blocks B-1 and B-2 are already semi-finished, think row B will take a little quicker than row A, but I shouldn't really say that because if I do something will come up to ruin my plans.

I've also completed my brown blocks that I've showed in my previous post, it got too dark to take a picture, so I'll show you it next time!

Hugs!

Essie