behind the scenes with 2 quilting teachers – plans, projects, progress & procrastination
Lovely surprise this week – we have an article in the March issue of Patchwork & Quilting magazine!
So, we’ve given all staff at C&B Towers the rest of the day off and we’re going to sit quietly with coffee and cake and enjoy reading.
Much rummaging deep in The Cupboard at the Rural Office this week and this gloriously scrappy (and pink) quilt top came to the top of one of the quilt stacks. Hand pieced with fabrics dating from 1860 onwards we think this would be a great scrap project to remake in contemporary fabrics and you can find a pattern over at our Heritage Quilts Payhip Shop.
Hard to believe that July is slipping away and it’s almost time to tidy and close The Cupboard and transfer to the Overseas Office for a while. But Scrappy Sundays will continue – see you next week!
Just a quick post to say our September Doodles are to be found (where else?) over on our Doodles page. This mo
nth we’ve played around with some settings for Goose in the Pond, a favourite traditional block, but left the choice of colour up to you. You can download your own Doodle to colour here. Don’t forget that you can print it out as many times as you like and you could even cut it up and rearrange the blocks (or the units) to make your own unique design. We’d love to see them!
The block we have chosen this month also features in one of Barbara’a vintage quilts and if you wish to recreate it you can find the pattern here or here. A full listing of all our Heritage Quilt patterns can be found on our website.
Chris has broken her own production record and turned out THREE quilts in what seems like less than a week!! Little food has been shopped or consumed at C&B Towers, much midnight oil has been burned and there are bits of thread everywhere. However, she is now almost fully prepared for classes at The Corner Patch in 2017 – can you believe the lists are filling already?! Here is one of the intermediate-level Block of the Month quilts recently delivered to the shop –
All quiet at the Rural Office – Barbara had to make an emergency return from the Overseas Branch and is now fully engaged with nursing duties as her husband begins a slow recovery from serious illness. Hopefully there will be some sewing time.
chris & barbara quilts 