I had in mind that I wanted to make a Christmas quilt for a friend I have known all my life, in fact, my sister's best friend. There is something special about friendships that have lasted for many years; a common bond, a shared history. I have wanted to make…
It's my good friend's special birthday today and I started making this quilt for her in March. I thought long and hard about what kind of quilt to make her and I chose the pattern Pebble Grove by Tacha Bruecher which I found in one of the Fat Quarterly e-zines.…
My youngest son said to me "What IS that?". Well, I think it's quite obviously a lobster transmogrified in to a ladybird/ladybug in the form of a finger puppet.Mr Pinchy - back viewLobster claw lollipop from Candy Hero (I gave it to my BFF for her birthday).Happy Easter Monday!Love Melanie…
I made this quilt for my friend's special birthday and I think it's one of my favourites. It's a Moda pattern I first saw on Pinterest called 'Nough Said'. I wanted to make a quilt for this friend which celebrated her love of bushcraft and fortunately another friend gave me…
After spending a lot of my time in the last few years working with purples and greens I was ready to use some different colours. I made this St Louis 16 Patch quilt using blues and oranges. The pattern was all over Instagram and many versions of this quilt were…
I used fabric from my stash and a lot of material I got at last summer's Fat Quarterly Retreat to make this quilt. I entered some material in to an "ugly fabric swap" at the retreat, the fabric I put in was hideous but what I pulled out was beautiful.…
It's very satisfying, I've completed a whole bed quilt. As this quilt is a Christmas present I feel that I am ahead of myself. It's made of pink and blue hexagons using the English paper piecing technique. Last year I asked a fellow quiltmaker on Instagram what the acronym EPP…
The blank canvas of a new term! Started back at Committed to Cloth at the beginning of September and it was good to be back after a summer break. Screen printed some lobsters with the thermofax screen of my sister's lobster design. I used screen inks instead of dyes and rolled…
Melanie Makes Meringues