Frame for felted piece

Here's a peek of the FMQ so far - this Heide Stoll-Weber cotton sateen is a dream to quilt on!

Quilting on felt

I did a felting workshop a while ago - as a student for a change - with the lovely Tracey and created a sunset with merino wool. Now I've started to 'quilt' it and plan to mount it onto a large piece of hand-dyed Heide Stoll-Weber fabric I bought at the Festival of Quilts a couple of years ago. Here's a sneaky peak...

Kaleidoscope workshop - Whitelackington

I recently had my last workshop of the Spring term - my three part kaleidoscope course - and here are some pics of the ladies' beautiful creations!

Bridget's Quilt

Jackie's Quilt

Jacqui's Quilt

Jill's Quilt

Jilly's Quilt

Marion's Quilt

Marjorie's Quilt

Sue's Quilt

Fabric smorgasbord!

I spent the best part of two days cutting out all these 1 7/8" squares ready for the watercolour landscape workshop I'm giving at Whitelackington Village Hall this Thursday. I haven't counted them but safe to say, there are thousands! They're all in groups according to colour and/or type and in my handy Ikea cutlery trays. The slightly larger squares in the box at the top are for making HSTs.

At the workshop, I'll lay them all out in the middle of the table and everyone can help themselves! It'll be like a dinner buffet only much yummier! ''Scuse me, would you mind passing the green florals please?'!

Mandala

Hello everyone,

Well I had a fabulous few days at the Craft4Crafters show at West Point, Exeter last week. It seems that many crafters are become attracted to patchwork and quilting as a hobby and it was great to meet so many keen and willing converts! It was a great show and very busy despite the icy weather - we even had a bit of snow on the Saturday.

I had a few comments about my name - k3n being an abbreviation of Kathryn (this my partner's invention as 'text speak' when we were courting). Most people get it when they realise my given name is 'Kathryn' but to some it seems like some kind of code because of the number in it. One lady referred to me as 'K9' which I found quite amusing. Ah well, what is the old adage - 'it doesn't matter what they call you, so long as they call you!'

My Mandala that I showed a peak of a while ago was indeed finished and here is a picture of it hanging at West Point. I absolutely loved doing the freehand machine quilting on this and was quite sad once the last pebble was done in the outer border! Ah well, on to the next project, which involves Dutch chintz and French hemp and silk fabric, 3D flying geese and oh yes, probably some FMQ!
Take care everyone, k3n x (aka K9, aka Kathryn)

Sneaky peek

I AM going to finish this for the Craft 4 Crafters show at Westpoint next week - some pretty extreme FMQ but I am loving it!

Happy New Year!

Well my 2012 has started with a vengeance! My workshop schedule is well underway, I had great fun teaching my first class at Midsomer Quilting last weekend although I got told off by Chris for helping myself too liberally to the coffee pot! Seriously though, it is a wonderful, friendly place to teach and I am looking forward to my second workshop there on April 28th - I hope Chris remembers to buy in extra coffee!

Midsomer Quilting's third quilt exhibition at the Radstock Museum is being hung as we speak and will open on 1st February. I delivered my contributions last Saturday (four of my quilts have been selected for inclusion) and was honoured to learn that the little quilt I made for MQs recent Fruit Challenge in aid of CLIC Sergent was among the 15 voted for by visitors so will hang in the Radstock. Thank you to all who voted for mine! I think I'm now allowed to say it was the undersea scene - 'Fruits de Mer'.

I have also been asked to have a stand at the forthcoming Craft 4 Crafters exhibiton at the Westpoint Arena in Exeter, which I am delighted to do. This will run from the 2nd to the 4th February, for more details see their website http://www.craft4crafters.co.uk/. The organisers tell me that patchwork and quilting is fast becoming one of their most popular sections so I am looking forward to being there and flying the flag so to speak! I will of course have quilts on display and will be doing some demonstrations throughout the three days. I have committed to finishing a new quilt that I have been working on especially for the show so once I've posted this, it's back to slaving over a hot sewing machine!

New Year's Resolution? To be more disciplined about posting to my blog! Take care, all, k3n x