Wednesday 11 November 2015

My Favourite Make Of 2015

We all have quilts that we fall in love with a bit more than others. And this here is most favourite that I have made this year. It just is.


It's in the latest issue of Love Patchwork & Quilting, and I have been aching to show you this one for what seems just about forever. It is made entirely with Robert Kauffman Essex Linens and is so tactile. I fell in love with linens just that bit more when I made this, and sort of want to make more quilts with them. Lots more.

I also am happy with my design because it sort of (maybe) looks like paper piecing but isn't. Obviously. Because we all know me and paper piecing are not best friends, or on a speaking basis half the time. This is made with HSTs and HRTs and is easy peasy to make. My kind of quilt!

I also used just about every shade of Aurifil I have in my stash for the quilting, trying to match the colours to each and every linen used in the stars. I matchstick quilted the stars and then stippled the background.


I love how LOQ photographed the mini with its white background and binding on the white wall. Makes it look cooler than anything I ever did to it. I kind of need a photographer on hand at home to make all my blog photos look like this.

I have to say that two years into receiving commissions from LPQ I am really enjoying the adventure. Until the day I got the first email from them it never occurred to me to try and get anything I designed into a quilting magazine. Now it seems to have opened up more avenues of creativity for me, and pushed me that little bit further in what I make and do. Just for that I thank them profusely.


If you live in the UK and are tempted to subscribe to the magazine they currently have a great offer on to try three issues for £3. If you follow this link you can find out more - special subscription offer.
The offer is good until December 8th.

And I'll have quilts in five of the issues next year. Just saying. (Okay, every issue is full of fantastic designs by truly inspirational quilters. I'm just happy to figuratively hang out with them on occasion.)

Susan

13 comments:

  1. Ah that's a cool way of making that design up!

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  2. It looks superb, your use of colour is brilliant. That LPQ link shows up as £19.49, if you have a link for £3 I'd love it! thanks x

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  3. Fabulous Susan.the simple design and the colours you've used are just amazing.

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  4. itss a beauty alright, hope you have a wall space for it waiting!

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  5. easy to fall in love with this one. It looks quite simple, but a lot of complexity in getting those colour combinations just right.

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  6. Such a vibrant beauty, Susan! And to make those stars from HSTs and HRTs, let's just say I wish I'd thought of that ;-)

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  7. It's brilliant S! And so very you! Jxo

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  8. Susan, this quilt is gorgeus! I'm so happy to see your projects on this magazine, which is the best quilting magazine I have seen. Lookins for to see your new quilts! x Teje

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  9. I love all that linen, what a beautiful quilt!

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  10. This is so pretty ut why would I expect anything less of you.

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  11. Wow . . thats a great quilt. so much quilting. Looks very special.

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