Friday's Favourite Five

While browsing the web i found the following quilts which i love, love, love:

• Red Pepper Quilts has made a nine-patch quilt entirely from stash. The nine-patches are made up of a mixture of mostly pink and red fabrics and the central square of each block is white.

• Cluck Cluck Sew has a red and beige/tan quilt made up of half square triangles. It is very striking but also has a lovely simplicity about it as well.

• These lovely string blocks in really caught my eye at Retro Mama, i love how cheery and bright the different fabrics are. I have occasionally wondered about doing a string quilt but have always hesitated because my stash is rather small and sadly outdated.

• Am loving the red and aqua fabrics in this spiderweb quilt by a quilt is nice. Red and aqua/turquoise is one of my absolute favourite colour combos.

• Quilting Sisters saw some stunning quilts at a quilt show recently. One was made of red four-patch squares in a variety of red fabrics, with black and white check sashing in between. Many years ago I made a version of this quilt after seeing the pattern featured in an old issue of Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine (circa 1998-9, i think ??). It was the third quilt i have made.

What are you loving this week?

Cheers,

BJ

Friday's Favourite Five

There are so many fantastic, clever and creative ideas around that I thought I would take a few moments to mention my favourites this week:

• I am loving this gorgeous quilt over at artsy-crafty babe - red & white stripes, divine !!


• The Happy Hour pattern has long been one of my favourites, and i particularly like the way crazy mom quilts has made these blocks approximately half the size of the original pattern so they finish at about 7inches. I have no idea which fabrics I would use if I were to add this to my list of "things to do", though. Maybe that pile of Kaffe Fasset fat quarters I have been saving for just the right project...?


• I haven't seen this type of quilting before but Tallgrass Prairie Studio calls it 'organic line quilting' - I LOVE the fabulous texture it adds to the quilt.


• Unplug Your Kids has posted about making colored rice which she found to be a great activity for kids of all ages. I think at 15 months my Blondie boy is perhaps a bit young yet, but I can't wait to try this out when the time is right.


• A set of stackable fabric boxes caught my eye over at oh, fransson! I think they will be a perfect present for a close friend who is expecting her second baby in August. The tutorial is available at Sew, Mama, Sew!

Have you seen something fabulous that you'd like to share?

Cheers,
BJ