behind the scenes with 2 quilting teachers – plans, projects, progress & procrastination
Many of our favourite patchwork patterns look good in classic black & white – this is a small slab of EPP Barbara made for a 3D patchwork class we taught. The arrangement of half-hexagons is known as Inner City.
Chris is still waiting for Barbara to make a similar EPP piece based on the image below that we featured in a past Tile Tuesday post. Good intentions etc etc ….
We’ve arrived at November again, this time with an unplanned hiccup in updating our Electric Doodles page and missing almost the whole of October. So now we are properly caught up and the page updated to November, the tech. section of the Rural Office has been formally reprimanded and threatened with removal of biscuit rights. . .
Our Tile Tuesday posts will continue through November and then in December we will have Festive Fridays to reflect the season. We have a number of things lined up for this blog in (gulp) 2022 but we are sworn to secrecy until January rolls around. In the meantime there is much clearing and sorting and re-arranging going on throughout the C&B Empire – from C&B Towers to the Rural Office and the Overseas Office sewing machines are being serviced, supplies checked, shelves dusted and re-stocked, projects reviewed, assessed and progressed.
Happy stitching!
Classic combination of blue and white – always appealing and inspiring.
Two very different tiles today for tile inspiration – fanciful patterned ceramic tiles UK 1890s (maybe) and a fanciful design executed in mosaic tiles 21st century middle East. Similar in colour palette and ornate twirls but very different all the same.
Something Barbara found during a tidy-up at the Rural Office –
A tourist purchase more than 10years ago this warrants further investigation!
Mostly blue – examples of classic tile from Istanbul and Portugal. So much to look at in such small spaces.
Another tiled floor that almost shrieked “quilt” – so simple and elegant in monochrome. Here’s the EQ translation from floor to quilt –
The pattern for this quilt is available from our Payhip Shop.
Chris’s version of the quilt above –
Tile inspiration from Cairo!
From garden tiles (somehow posted twice!) back to Mr Minton’s wonderful tiles – Chris was inspired to draft this bold strippy-style quilt from a local domestic floor.
The strong russet colour of the original tiles is not always easy to match exactly in fabric but there are plenty of “near-enough” options out there – this is what EQ came up with asked to turn the colours into fabrics
But you don’t have to stick with the original tile colours – go pastel or go bold . . . and while you’re at it you could change the design around a little!
You can find the pattern to buy in our Payhip shop.
The original floor photo also inspired the Lichfield quilt which can you read about on our Meadowside blog.
In the good old days when we did outrageous things like walking dogs, stopping for coffee, visiting garden centres etc we sometimes saw outdoor tile arrangements that offered some inspiration. Even this incomplete (and very large) arrangement –
And here’s Barbara’s interpretation of the complete circle but as a more manageable 12inch block –
This is currently on the “awaiting more quilting” pile at the Rural Office before being finished into yet another cushion.
chris & barbara quilts 