Festival of quilts - Day 3

Another day in quilters heaven..

Today we had a lovely workshop with Wendy Cotterill. 

She showed us a technique using transfer paints onto already printed images and/or text. These will need to be laser printed, and the image or text will thus act as a resist to the transfer paint.

She also showed us how to print images onto fabric with a household (inkjet) printer.

The images/text with transfer paint were then transferred onto a polyester type fabric (we used lutrador I believe) and when you place that on top of the other printed images you get a kinda see-through layered effect.

Will definitely try this one time on a future project!

Tomorrow will be our last day, we will go check out all the lovely quilts that are on display and take lots of pictures!

For now, goodnight from Birmingham!

Essie

Festival of quilts - Day 2

After breakfast we set of for our first day at the Festival of quilts. First we took a tour round the many many MANY (!) shops.. Didn't get around to seeing all the quilts yet (that's how many shops there were!), but we'll do that on Sunday.

Bought some fabric for my Dear Jane quilt and a couple of books..not too bad considering all the temptation! But we still have 2 days to go.. ;-))

Seen a couple of familiar faces from back home, some visiting the show and some were exhibiting. Anco Brouwers was being interviewed (took a picture but with my other camera)

In the afternoon we attended a lecture by Kaffe Fasset, he showed us with slides how he gets his inspiration for the colours he uses in his artistic work, which consists of painting, knitting and designing fabric. He also admitted that he is not very good at hand sewing/quilting and he never uses a machine.

Before we knew it it was half past five and the show was closing, time really flies when you are having fun and we did! 

Had some nice fish and chips for dinner and probably won't make it late tonight.

Tomorrow we have a workshop.

So goodnight from Birmingham and see you tomorrow!

Essie 

Festival of quilts - Day 1

Today was just a traveling day, at 16:15 we flew from Amsterdam to Birmingham.

We checked in the hotel which is within walking distance of the NEC. We'll probably take the free rail link tomorrow, just cause it's more fun!

Tomorrow the fun will start.. :-))

See you tomorrow!

Essie

What happened here?

Yep..that's what is left of my DJ book, I've finally done it!
It was getting harder to copy the patterns from the book, so I had no choice but to cut it apart.

Just quickly want to show you two more Jane blocks I've done.

Block C-7

and block C-11

Tomorrow we're off to Birmingham for the Festival of Quilts...:-))
Will keep you posted..
See you next time!
Essie

Hottest day of the year..

Its the hottest day of the year so far, 36 degrees Celsius in the shade!!  Hopefully we will have some thunder storms later..
So keeping calm next to the fan with a nice cold drink and working on some Dear Jane blocks.
Wonder how Jane coped with such hot weather in her time? No air conditioning, and with wearing all those skirts and hoops in those days, it must have been very hot!

Done this one today, Block C-10 "Patriot's Lantern"

These blocks were also done the past couple of weeks
Block C-9 "Jane's Tears"

and C-2 "Streak of Lightning"

With a little help of my little furry friend (poor thing, she must also be very hot!) I have prepared some pieces for block C-11 and they are ready to be appliqued.

This time next week my friend Jo and I will be visiting the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK..
sooooooooooo excited!!
With over 700 quilts on display there is so much to see and lots to shop too;))
One day is simply not enough to see it all, so we will be visiting the show 3 days, Friday thru Sunday. On the Friday we will also attend a lecture with no other than Kaffe Fasset himself and on Saturday we will be attending a workshop. I will bring my i-pod and try to do a daily update of the show on my blog with some pictures too.
Hopefully the temperature is going to be a wee bit cooler when we go!

See you next time!
Essie

A grey day outside..

but while the weather is not so nice for being outdoors..it is however great weather to do some quilting!

And not feel guilty about it..;)

Well in my last post I promised to show you what else I have been working on, so here she goes..

In the past few weeks while not working on my Jane blocks, I have made this stack and whack kaleidoscope quilt. Fabric is a border print from Jinny Beyer. 

This is a sample for the workshop we have planned in September with our Bee.

A couple of weeks ago I bought this gorgeous fabric from Laurel Burch.

I will be doing another stack and whack with this one, but this time with 6 equilateral triangles forming hexagons from the book "One Block Wonders Cubed" from Maxine Rosenthal and Joy Pelzmann.

Can't wait to get started on this one!!

Love all those bright colors..

Also I have been busy quilting my entry for the OEQC competition in Veldhoven which is in October.

The theme for this year is "Berlin". 

these blocks represent The Wall, 

doing some straight lines here.

The famous picture of the defecting soldier taken during the early days of the Berlin Wall.

The little running man were free motion "thread sketched" over a layer of organza.

I've probably cut the organza too close to the stitching and while quilting the background that layer of organza has started to come loose. Will have to redo that once all the quilting has been done, probably even after the binding has been done.

Oh well..we learn as we go along!

If somebody has got a good tip on how to prevent this sort of thing in the future please let me know??

'Till next time!

Have a great weekend,

Essie

Time flies..time for a Jane update

Time seems to go faster and faster..before you know it another week has gone and then another month..
My last post was a month ago..can't believe it!
Time has gone very fast the last few weeks but luckily I did have time do a few baby Janes..

Block C-3  "Rayelle's Fence" 

this one is foundation pieced.

Block C-4 "Tic Tac Toe" 

mostly foundation pieced 

Block C-1 "Trooper Green's Badge"

foundation pieced

nice to have an easy block now and then.. ;)

Block C-8 "Hani's Crown"

middle section with the white pieces is foundation pieced and outside corners are traditionally pieced.

Block C-12 "Family Reunion" 

decided to traditionally piece this block, but those pieces are soooo tiny! Took me quite a while to put together..

Oh, well.. as they say

"No pain..no Jane.."  ;)LOL

Noticed there's some threads on some of the pictures, sorry about that, however it does give you a sense of scale so you get an idea of the size of the blocks.
This puts me on a total of 31 blocks and seeing as we are in week 28 that means I'm still on schedule.
That's all I have for Jane, next time I'll show you what else I've been busy with..

"Till next time!
Essie