Isfahan

In October I posted a photo of a quilt top in progress which began life as my version

of Organised Chaos by Sujata, but took a different direction

when I decided to use just one fabric for the corners of the blocks and 

one fabric for the outer triangles.

 I had in mind a vision of an old Persian carpet, hence

Isfahan was born.

To those who may have seen this before on my Mystic Quilter

blog, apologies for the double viewing.

I absolutely loved making this, lots of colour

and the fabrics used are Kaffe Fassett Collective ones

and batiks.

 Bring on another Kaleidoscope!!

Maureen

The Northern Lights

I completed the top of my small quilt begun on Wednesday,

for this I used a quarter of the Rail Fence block

along with a completely different setting

to the original by Sujata

The Northern Lights
37" x 49"
Fabrics by Kaffe Fasset and Caryl Bryer-Fallert

This is another "story quilt" see below

The Northern Lights can be seen from the very top of
Scotland and I'd love to say that I had seen this wonderful sight before
we came to New Zealand in 1980,  I didn't but I have seen clips
many times of course.

There is a play on words with this piece, we come from
Lancashire in the North of England. For anyone who knows something of that area
there is a town called Blackpool, very famous for what is known as
'The Lights". In Autumn the whole sea front -  lamp posts, shops buildings - for miles is
decorated with the most amazing array of  bright lights, there could be
huge models of for example Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other
well known story book characters,
huge Catherine Wheels, spinning away merrily on top of the lamp posts.
 There is also Blackpool Tower - a sort of mini Eiffel Tower -
totally decorated and lighting the sky for miles around.
 The trams which run along the sea front are also
fully decorated and all lit up, it really is a sight to see and children absolutely
love it - I certainly did -  actually so do the adults! Sitting on a tram
or walking along by the side of the sea eating Candy Floss or sucking on sticks
of Blackpool rock was my idea of heaven.
For followers of Coronation Street, Hayley and Roy Cropper go for a special
weekend to see The Lights and dance in The Tower Ballroom after
she has received her diagnosis of cancer.

Absolutely loved making this version and I think another one is
waiting in the wings!

Maureen

Something different

Another Rail Fence begun this morning,

a peek of two blocks

I am now back in my comfort zone with the rich colours and

using an ombre rather than a straight up solid.

More to come! 

Maureen

Now onto the Quilting!

Finished sewing Sailing Through Suez  and now have to get my head around

how I would like to quilt. Bit tricky this one.

Minimal quilting is the order of the day I feel, my initial thoughts are to hand quilt just the 

solid "strips" and leave the Rings fabric without any, I need to shop around for  four different

variegated finer Perle cotton to match up

with the solids first off.

If anyone has any inspired ideas please do let me know!!

The story about this small piece will be told when it's quilted and bound, would

have done this today but have a shocker

of a cold etc. and I'm off back to sip hot honey and lemon

and put my feet up with a good quilting book!

Good to see you're back Sujata!

Maureen