Name Tag Swap

As posted before, I participated in a name tag swap.

Well, here is the one that I got! Isn't it cute!
I love the bit of Shannon Lamden fabric on the back!

The funny thing about the quilters crowd is their almost obsessive compulsive knowledge of both the names and designers of the fabric that they use.

If you are a quilter, consider coming along to the next meet up. Bring hand work for the morning session and then after lunch we generally crack open the sewing machines. Lots of levels of experience, lots of interesting people to chat to.

Name Tag Swap

This month for the Melbourne Modern Quilters Guild we had a name badge swap.

I haven't really been involved in many swaps, I am always nervous that I won't have time to complete my part. But I quite enjoyed this one. It took me about an hour to make.

The name badge that I made looked nothing like the sketches that I made.

Once I got into my sewing room and looked through my fabric, the black and white with yellow bird fabric spoke to me and I went off in a completely different direction.

I didn't have a brooch back so I sewed on a safety pin. From this over exposed picture you can see some of the quilting that I did.

I used this opportunity to put together some fabrics that I had been toying with for a while. I love black, yellow and white as a combination.

Tetris Quilting

On saturday I was fortunate to spend most of the day at the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild. We took along our hand sewing for the first part of the day and then the second half of the day was workshop time. Pure quilting goodness!

In the afternoon I attempted to re-do my attempt at a tetris quilt. Unlike some quilt designs a Tetris quilt isn't very forgiving when it comes to seams lining up and I wasn't happy with what I had done. So I unpicked my 2.5 inch squares and I thought I would try the technique that Elizabeth from Oh Fransson used with her postage stamp quilt.

Using a pen, I ruled out a cube on a piece of iron on interfacing The cube was 6 x6 with each square being 2.5 inches in width and height. Pinned down the bits of fabric and then once I got the design right, pressed them onto the interfacing.

Then I ironed each seam, sewed it and voila! Instant Tetris quilt block within an hour. This block will turn into a pillow and I am thinking of getting some soluble interfacing so that I can use this technique to make a baby quilt with.

What do you think?