tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81677826943256901212024-03-13T06:40:20.025-07:00KarenLewisTextilesKaren Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-81215959524437419932020-04-07T06:20:00.002-07:002020-04-07T06:20:58.361-07:00Y seams...<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello and welcome to my day on the #keepcalmbrithop ingeniously thought of by Jo of <a href="https://www.thecraftynomad.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Crafty Nomad</a> to help keep us sane and upbeat. I'm sure like me you are having good days and bad and on less good days what helps is connecting and reaching out, so here I am connecting and reaching out!</div>
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I am Karen and I am a fabric designer, screen printer, quilter and author amongst other things! You may know me as one half of the Retreat company <a href="http://thethreadhouse.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Thread House</a> with my pal <a href="https://mybearpaw.com/" target="_blank">Jo Avery</a>. When I am not busy with my creative endeavours I can be found roaming the fields and woods by our home with my dog, Scout in tow. I am making the most of doing a lot more of that right now. It's amazing how good getting out in the fresh air is for our sanity, now more than ever.</div>
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Whilst we are all at home self isolating, I thought I would share a tutorial for you to have fun with. Often people are very fearful of Y seams, but like anything with sewing, it's easy once you know how. It is one of those techniques where preparation is key. As long as you take the time to mark your fabrics, the rest is straight forward.</div>
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I posted a tutorial on my old blog, Blueberry Park and so click on the link <a href="http://blueberry-park.blogspot.com/2013/08/y-seams-tutorial.html" target="_blank">here</a> to read it. If you do and decide to make anything, please do show me. I would love to see!</div>
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I hope you are finding ways of keeping busy, safe and well.</div>
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Do follow the rest of this Brit Hop by clicking on the links below.</div>
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Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-50122257411597795722020-03-25T09:33:00.002-07:002020-03-25T09:33:42.270-07:00Scrappy Log Cabin Star Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I hope you will enjoy making my Scrappy Log Cabin Star Block with a Sawtooth Star centre and design your own quilt with it. It has so much potential for individuality, whether you go completely scrappy with the star centres as well as the log cabin outer strips. Maybe you will throw caution to the wind and blindly dip into your scrap buckets or be more contained and keep some uniformity as in the couple of examples shown below. I think it works equally well with patterned fabrics as well as solids and I can't wait to see what you get up to with it! </div>
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Please use the hashtag #scrappylogcabinstarquilt on Instagram and I can be sure to see what you are up to.</div>
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Star centre: one 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" square</div>
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four 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" squares</div>
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Star background: one 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" square</div>
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Scrappy log cabins: 1 1/2" x 38", made up of 1 1/2" scraps of various lengths sewn together.</div>
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1. Take the 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" background fabric square and the four 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" squares and make four four-at-a-time flying geese blocks. These should be 4 1/2" x 2 1/2".</div>
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2. If you are unsure about the four-at-a-time method go check out Amy's great tutorial <a href="https://www.diaryofaquilter.com/2016/08/fast-flying-geese-sawtooth-star.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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3. Arrange the four flying geese units with the remaining cut fabrics in the layout as shown above.</div>
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4. Sew these three rows together and then sew the rows together to make your Sawtooth Star centre.</div>
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Today I am introducing you to a new book by <a href="https://www.ctpub.com/" target="_blank">C & T Publishing</a>...Love Flying Geese. The book is a culmination of 27 Flying Geese projects as previously featured in <a href="http://www.lovepatchworkandquilting.com/" target="_blank">Love Patchwork & Quilting</a> and now all in one place! </div>
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I work in several different ways. My starting point is sometimes the fabric I am working with but other times I have a design in mind and look for the fabric that completes the whole story.</div>
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Fancy Flora p.25</div>
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I paired Outback Wife by Gertrude Made with some low volumes of my Blueberry Park 2 collection, wanting the low volume background to allow the big blooms of Outback Wife to really pop. By grouping the same fabric together over several blocks meant there was even more pop and at the same time became restful...an area where the same was going on so not too much darting around for the eye. As far as the quilt design for this fabric was concerned, I wanted to produce something where it looked like the flowers were peaking through, hence the triangular design.</div>
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Sun Baked p.20</div>
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Euclid by Carolyn Friedlander is such a calm collection with each of the fabrics working so well with each other in a very soothing way. To me this collection was calling out for lots of variety but in a uniformed way, hence the row design. I kept the background fabric of all the rows the same which brings the whole quilt together . I threw in some of my screen printed fabrics to add some variety to the collection, printing on coordinating linens to Euclid.</div>
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Colour Study 2 p.31</div>
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For this quilt the design came first. The brief for this quilt from Love Patchwork & Quilting was to look at fabrics in the green/yellow colour range on a dark background. Since the brief was to show the colours I felt the design needed to have big blocks of the colours and to keep the design relatively simple. I went through my stash to pull fabrics within this colour story and played around with the layout until it felt cohesive. Even though there are a lot of different fabrics from a lot of different designers I love how calm the quilt is.</div>
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Colour Study 1 p.15</div>
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April Rhodes' Observer collection screamed out to me when I saw it and just knew as soon as I did what I was going to do with it. Each fabric design is relatively simple with each one being monochrome, so whilst there is a lot going on with each separate print they all work together so well so I knew I wanted to throw them all in a pot and randomly scatter them. I designed large and small Flying Geese, rotating some to produce some rows of diamonds to mix things up a bit. Like the Sun Baked quilt I screen printed some fabrics to go with Observer, printing on coordinating Art Gallery Pure Elements solids.</div>
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All these quilts, along with the other 23 in Love Flying Geese are all so different despite having the same quilt block element in them. I love how a block can look so different, by changing the fabrics and quilt designs and done by different designers! I think my favourite project in the book has to be Nicole Calver's Colour Twist (p.60) and yes this is a Flying Geese block, but what a clever twist on it...it's making me want to stop everything and make one!</div>
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C & T Publishing are kindly giving away an ebook copy of Love Flying Geese. If you would like to enter please leave a comment here and I will draw a winner on Monday April 1st...and no it won't be an April Fool's Day announcement!</div>
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I am loving seeing all your makes on Instagram and all your different versions. They are just great. Here are a few in process with the hashtag #wireflowersewalong. Go take a look and don't forget to tag yours with the hashtag and also #wireflowerfpp.</div>
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Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-12949811068477219252018-11-25T07:24:00.000-08:002018-12-14T09:10:11.168-08:00Wire Flower Sewalong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So why join in the sewalong and not just make for yourself? Well, we all love our quilting community and making new sewing friends. Also, I don't know about you, but I am always drawn to the same fabric designers and sewing with the same types of fabrics and it's so refreshing to see what others do and mix it up a bit. You may discover new favourites along the way!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">1. You need to purchase the Wire Flower FPP Pattern from Etsy. Click on the link </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/660214223/wire-flower-foundation-paper-piecing?ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">here</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. You will sew a total of 9 blocks and send 1 to each person in your group (keeping 1 for yourself!). You can either make them all different, or use the same fabric throughout...your choice! Just take into account people's colour likes and dislikes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Please don't feel pressured into sending extras. This sewalong is supposed to be relatively quick, fun and inexpensive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. Please tag me on Instagram @karenlewistextiles when you make your final post showing all the blocks you are shipping. If you are not on IG, just send me an email when you ship. This is just a way of keeping up with everyone. Please also tag any posts with #wireflowerfpp and #wireflowersewalong. It's great to keep up with what everyone is up to!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. You need to ship by January 31, 2019, unless you are swapping at Quiltcon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Made it this far and still want to join in? Great!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thank you so much for joining in...I'm really excited about this sewalong and can't wait to see what everyone gets up to! x</span><br />
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-1277173324117934962018-03-16T04:20:00.003-07:002018-03-16T04:22:27.508-07:00Southwest Modern by Kristi SchroederHello!<br />
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I am very excited to be the final leg of the wonderful <a href="http://www.initialkstudio.com/">Kristi Schroeder</a>'s Southwest Modern book tour. Last year in Savannah Kristi was telling me about her impending book...I even got a few glimpses of the beautiful quilts she was making...part travel guide part quilt book. It sounded so fresh and original and it is exactly that.<br />
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I have long since been an admirer of Kristi's modern striking quilting style and just knew it was going to be unlike any other quilting book on the market. Even though I had had an insight into the book I was gob smacked by its beauty. Firstly can I say, New Mexico? When is the next flight leaving for there?? Secondly the quilts, boy oh boy every single one of them is beautiful beyond beauty. I want to make them all.<br />
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At first glance they seem simple on the eye (that's a good thing in my book) but looking at them more closely they will challenge both beginner and experienced quilters alike (another good thing in my book).<br />
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The styling of the book itself is exquisite. The layout of the patterns themselves is so fresh and clean and clear, whilst the photos, like the ones above, show off the quilts in all their majestic glory, in the most stunning New Mexico locations. Did I mention I want to go there?...now?<br />
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So what did I choose to make?<br />
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I could have done any one of them but I decided to choose by being fickle and seeing which one made me stop quicker than any other so I chose Mosaic, which happens to be on the front cover.<br />
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I have a few apologies about my make...<br />
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You may know if you follow me on IG that the last few weeks have been challenging personally which meant<br />
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1. I was running late for this...<br />
2. I clearly wasn't reading instructions correctly so some of the low volume central pieces weren't placed correctly. The plus side to this is the pattern is flexible and unless you were looking at this next to the pattern you really wouldn't know!<br />
3. I ran out of time to do the complete quilt so here is my Mosaic Mini...another plus to the book I feel...you can alter the patterns to your need/space/desire and still get a great feel for the original...ever the optimistic!<br />
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I hope you like my little mini...I sure do...but in case you wanted to see how it would look as it was intended, here's a little mock up I did with my new found Touchdraw skills...<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope you have enjoyed my little book tour and if you would like to see more about the book check out the fab people and links below...ALSO the good news is you can be in with a chance of receiving a copy of this exquisite book. It is one you will most definitely want on your bookshelf.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">TO ENTER:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1. Follow me AND follow Kristi Schroeder @initialkstudio on Instagram </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2. Please comment on this blog post to be entered to win. Bonus entries for contestants who comment/like on my IG post. (@karenlewistextiles)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">3. Winner will be announced Monday.</span></span><br />
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<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 8th Mathew Boudreaux of <a class="" href="https://misterdomestic.net/">Mister Domestic</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 9th Rebecca Bryan of <a class="" href="http://bryanhousequilts.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bryan House Quilts</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 10th Suzy Williams of <a class="" href="https://suzyquilts.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Suzy Quilts</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 11th Hillary Goodwin of <a class="" href="https://entropyalwayswinsblog.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Entropy Always Wins</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 12th Michelle Wilkie of <a class="" href="https://factotum-of-arts.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Factotum of Arts</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 13th Christopher Thompson of <a class="" href="http://www.thetattooedquilter.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Tattooed Quilter</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 14th Nicole Daksiewicz of <a class="" href="http://modernhandcraft.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Modern Handcraft</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 15th Sarah Thomas of <a class="" href="http://www.sariditty.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sariditty</a></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 16th Karen Lewis of <a class="" href="http://www.karenlewistextiles.com/">Karen Lewis Textiles</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">ALSO NOTE... Kristi is having a Grand Prize Giveaway at the end of the blog hop courtesy of the following sponsors:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">1. Signed copy of </span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Southwest Modern</em><span style="background-color: white;"> by Lucky Spool</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">2. FQ bundle by Robert Kaufman</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">3. FQ bundle by Me & You Fabrics</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Be sure you sign up for her (Kristi’s. Not mine…I don’t have that option.) email newsletter!</span></span></div>
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Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-73884566709737165722017-11-20T08:31:00.002-08:002017-11-20T08:31:44.606-08:00Pattern DropHeck, it's been a while!<br />
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Every time I think of revisiting my blog something always gets in the way. Let's not put any stress on by me promising to post on a regular basis but let's take baby steps and see one post at a time...who knows where it will lead!<br />
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Today's post is all about the fantastic new business by Katie Blakesley from <a href="http://swimbikequilt.com/">Swim, Bike Quilt</a>. In early December Katie is launching <a href="http://patterndrop.com/">Pattern Drop</a>, a new digital pattern of the month club. Such a great idea! With a Pattern Drop membership, you'll get one premium quilt pattern delivered to you each and every month. And that's just the beginning - members also get exclusive discounts, access to member-only offers and much more.<br />
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Are you in the EU? If so you need to head to Etsy right <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/swimbikequilt">here</a> to sign up and use the code EU2Months.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic';"><i>Wednesday, September 21 - <a href="http://www.sew4home.com/">Sew 4 Home</a> & <a href="http://www.sewstitchmake.com/blog/2016/9/18/sew-home-a-shower-curtain">Jen Carlton Bailly</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic';"><i>Friday, September 23 - <a href="http://janome.com/en/blog/">Janome Sewing Machines</a> & <a href="https://purpledaisiesquilting.com/blogs/sewmuchlikemom">Cristy at Purple Daisies Quilting</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic';"><i>Monday, September 26 - <a href="https://windhamfabrics.wordpress.com/+----">Windham Fabrics</a> & <a href="http://bryanhousequilts.com/blog">Rebecca at Bryan House Quilts</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic';"><i>Wednesday, September 28 - <a href="http://dearstelladesign.com/blog/">Dear Stella Fabrics</a> & <a href="https://mandalei.com/blog/">Mandy at Mandalei Quilts</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello and welcome to my turn on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quilt-Block-Cookbook-Recipes-Possibilities/dp/1940655145/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473243542&sr=8-1&keywords=the+quilt+block+cookbook">The Quilt Block Cookbook</a> by <a href="http://www.stitcherydickorydock.com/">Amy Gibson</a> blog hop!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Having taken us through all the 50 recipe blocks Amy then introduces us to her selection of quilts using them. Her sampler quilts show us fresh new ways to combine blocks in really interesting and appealing layouts. A sign of a good quilt book is flicking through and wanting to make everything you see. This is that book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These 2 sampler quilts, above and below, are case in point. I am in love with both the use of block colour in the quilt above and piecing the blocks on point in the quilt below. So fresh and modern and eye catching.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another aspect of the book that I absolutely love is the section at the end entitled Perfect Pairings. Again Amy has taken a simple idea of combining 2 blocks together to create really striking quilts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is this idea that I wanted to have a quick try of. I chose Pumpkin Pie block and combined it with a simple plus block, threw them both in the Layout App and voila, instant gratification! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have so many of Amy's blocks on my making wishlist, along with her ideas of piecing sampler quilts. I know I will come back to this cook book time and time again and it will become a firm favourite, but thankfully without the usual crumbs and food ingredients that mar my usual cook books!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am sure you have all seen all the publicity around for <a href="http://quiltersplanner.com/">The Quilter's Planner 2017</a> and I am beyond proud to be part of it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I loved making the quilt for the planner and am completely in love with the fantastic photography </span><a href="http://nightquilter.com/quilt-photography" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kitty Wilkin</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> has done with mine and all the other stunning quilts. I want to head out to Maine right now and bask in that beautiful East Coast sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I couldn't pick a selection of all the photos that Kitty took of my quilt, so you got them all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The planner is available now so go check out the link </span><a href="http://quiltersplanner.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to grab yourself a copy, if only to marvel at all the gorgeous quilty eye candy in there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://duringquiettime.com/" target="_blank">Amy Friend of During Quiet Time</a><br /><br /><a href="http://nanacompany.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Amy Sinibaldi of Nana and Co.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/" target="_blank">Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.genxquilters.com/" target="_blank">AnneMarie Chany of GenXQuilters</a><br /><br /><a href="http://meadowmistdesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cheryl Brickey of Meadowmist Designs</a><br /><br /><a href="https://christaquilts.com/" target="_blank">Christa Watson of Christa Quilts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.karenlewistextiles.com/" target="_blank">Karen Lewis of Karen Lewis Textiles</a><br /><br /><a href="http://craft-happy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kari Vojtechovsky of Craft-Happy</a><br /><br /><a href="http://swimbikequilt.com/" target="_blank">Katie Clark Blakesley of Swim Bike Quilt</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.maychappell.com/" target="_blank">Lee Monroe of May Chappell</a><br /><br /><a href="http://lrstitched.com/" target="_blank">Lindsey Rhodes of LR Stitched</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.redpepperquilts.com/" target="_blank">Rita Hodge of Red Pepper Quilts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://latenightquilter.com/" target="_blank">Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quiltingjetgirl.com/" target="_blank">Yvonne Fuchs of Quilting Jetgirl</a><br /><br /><a href="http://designbylindsie.com/" target="_blank">Lindsie Bergevin of Design by Lindsie</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You have found me out...I am absolutely rubbish at thinking up names for blocks and quilts so this had the working title of the Curved Block and I am afraid it stuck!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did toy around with calling it Platform 9 1/4s...but I thought that was perhaps stretching the connection a little too randomly...so Curved Block it is!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is always exciting when a quilty friend brings out a new book and Intentional Piecing by <a href="http://duringquiettime.com/">Amy Friend</a> is no exception.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a big fan of Foundation Paper Piecing and I have long since admired Amy's work in this field. I haven't always been a big fan. Like most of us I went through the head confusion of it but once I emerged on the other side I just love it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Intentional Piecing is full of fantastic illustrations and photos of the steps involved with paper piecing and is a terrific resource to consult.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All you need to do to join in is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> share the top image on your blog or on Instagram to spread the word. For each block you make and share on Instagram (or each time you share the image at the top) using the hashtags #intentionalpiecingbook and #TellMeAStoryQuilt, you will be entered into a draw. On June 1st, I will draw a random winner from the IG hashtag #TellMeAStoryQuilt to win a bundle of fabrics from </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/sewmeasong" style="color: #6db9ae; text-decoration: none;">SewMeASong</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> that were selected just for this project so that you can make more blocks and complete your quilt top!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">In the meantime go <a href="http://duringquiettime.com/intentional-piecing-book">here</a> to see where you can get a copy of the book because you really want this in your stash.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://swimbikequilt.com/">Katie</a>, <a href="http://www.freshlypieced.com/">Lee</a> and <a href="http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/">Faith</a> did the first Summer Sampler 5 years ago and it's amazing to think it has become a regular feature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year the 3 ladies invited 7 of us to join in in creating a couple of blocks each.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: left;">This time around, they are offering the Summer Sampler as a block-of-the-week subscription program. </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><a href="http://freshly-pieced-quilt-patterns.myshopify.com/collections/digital-download-patterns/products/summer-sampler-2016?variant=18157621953"><span style="color: #59a391;">Click here to pre-order Summer Sampler 2016 for $19.99.</span> </a></span><span style="color: #e69138; text-align: left;">That's just $1 per block—for a limited time, ending May 15.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: left;"> After May 15, the price goes up to $24.99, so don't miss out on the chance to save!</span><i style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"> (<b>European Union customers</b>: You can purchase the Summer Sampler 2016—and now all Lee's other patterns—through her Etsy shop. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/292167827/summer-sampler-2016-pdf-subscription-for?ref=shop_home_feat_1">Click here to purchase</a>.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amy Smart of <a href="http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/">Diary of a Quilter</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like all fabric collections we all use them in such different ways and to see what you all do with Blueberry Park was so exciting and such a thrill. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It gives me such a happy feeling to catch sight of Blueberry Park in and amongst other fabrics that I thought I would have a regular feature of here on my blog to share some of the things I have loved seeing. I really love that you all love to have Blueberry Park in your stash and pull a piece to mingle with others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am starting this week with some glimpses of Blueberry Park in blocks sitting comfortably with other fabrics as well as a couple of peeps' lovely fabric pulls. I always love a fabric pull pic...full of promise!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take a look at what some IG folks have been up to. All photos are here with the permission of the maker and thank you all for sharing. If you would like to be featured in one of my future blogposts just email (karen@karenlewistextiles.com) a pic of your fabric pull, a snippet of BP in the making and finished works too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello and welcome to my turn on my good friend <a href="http://lilysquilts.blogspot.co.uk/">Lynne</a>'s blog tour for her new book <a href="http://www.kylebooks.co.uk/page/detail/Quick-and-Easy-Quilts/?K=e201601261249006967">Quick & Easy Quilts</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For this blog hop I was planning on trying out a block or 2 from a project but Lynne's quilts are exactly what they say they are...quick AND easy!...before I knew it I had the whole top for one made and pieced!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was and is my favourite season. It is full of promise of what is to come. I love that in the northern hemisphere spring comes just after new year and for me it signifies a new start. The days get lighter and bulbs start shooting through the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our old garden was full of the most wonderful spring bulbs. The snowdrops being the first sign of what was to come, gradually followed by crocuses, daffodils, clusters of grape hyacinths and lastly the bright tulips.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the first things I did when I got my stash of Blueberry Park was make this quilt for Robert Kaufman. I wanted to do a quilt that incorporated the whole collection. This was a tricky feat for me as I normally work in a limited colour palette and because my collection is a mahoosive 75 fabrics big (ridiculous I know!) it was a real challenge for me to design something to include them all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I had designed the pattern a while before and started sewing some of the blocks without being wholly clear on how I was going to piece it all together. Do you do that? I do it <i>all</i> the time but that's because I am not a good planner. I like to see where a quilt takes me. As the process went on I had a clearer idea of where it was going and eventually it morphed into this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It actually turned out very differently from what was originally in my head but I was really pleased with the outcome...particularly as it was my very first quilt pieced with my very first collection (she says like it's the first of many...) with Robert Kaufman.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The quilt pictured here isn't actually the one I made. This one was made by Craftsy and is almost identical to mine apart from the fun scrappy binding they stitched. I love that!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The quilt has been made into a kit and is available <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/supplies/robert-kaufman-blueberry-park-prismatic-echoes-quilt/24750?_ct=iuqhsx-kdyluhiqb-huikbj-ixef&_ctp=24750">here</a> from Craftsy. The kit includes all the fabrics to make the front and the binding as well as a PDF pattern to follow. The quilt could be constructed in so many different ways and if you make it I would love to see! Either tag me in on Instagram @karenlewistextiles and add a hashtag or two... #karenlewistextiles #prismaticechoesquilt #blueberryparkfabric</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was delighted and honoured when AnneMarie of <a href="http://www.genxquilters.com/">Gen X Quilts</a> asked me to be on her blog hop for her new book. If you have arrived here from AnneMarie's blog then welcome!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a big fan of sampler quilts. I love a quilt where your eye roams around it taking in all the different details but, being a bit of an enigma, I like a quilt to be balanced and work as a whole. All 3 of the sampler quilts have such a clever way of achieving this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In her second sampler quilt, Bonfire Sampler, AnneMarie has taken components from curved blocks and string blocks and constructed them in new and exciting ways, as you can see in the Friendship Star block above. The whole quilt has a strong border of HSTs giving the overall effect of a giant detailed Bearpaw.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I eventually settled on trying out the Button Block, mainly because I have a current love of curves and wanted to choose a block with curves. I so nearly went for the Time and Energy block so I guess I will be doing that pretty soon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you haven't seen this book yet I really urge you to. There is a lot of mileage in it. There are so many options for doing the quilts in so many different ways which is another big tick for me when choosing a new quilting book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you for visiting my stop on the tour. Do go click on all the other stops for some great reviews, block and quilt making, along with some great giveaways of the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">To be fair, or accurate, I already was a fabric designer, small scale, nothing fancy, designing and printing my fabric panels for my own use and lots of you lovelies out there. But </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015 was the year that I officially became a fabric designer with my launch collection, Blueberry Park with Robert Kaufman.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That really set the tone for the whole year since it was back in January </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015 that I started to design the collection and almost a whole year later in November when it was released for you all to buy. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015 will forever be remembered as a memorable year. A year on living this process on a daily basis I am honoured, flattered, humbled and beyond excited about quite where I am and what I am doing. I am pretty sure professionally it can't get much better than this. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> wasn't just about the fabric, I had such highs in other areas too. I had an amazing year with countless magazine quilt projects. That is one thing I will also never tire of or become immune to. Seeing my work in glossy print is such a buzz every single time. I think at one time I had about 5 projects one after the other after the other, and all in and amongst the bubble of the collection getting ready, but the pressure of that still made it all nothing short of a joy...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...and there was more! Back to my love of screen printing and running workshops, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015 was a wonderful year. I had some really great workshops at my home with some amazing enthusiastic printers and I also travelled near and far to teach, which was such a buzz. I was welcomed in Huddersfield...twice...Scotland...twice...Wales...once and even over in Copenhagen. Every group was just fantastic...so much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a personal level we had the high of moving house at the end of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and discovering that we all love living in the country. We moved for the house. We fancied a change and it just so happened that we fell in love with where it was too and I can't wait for </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">016 to unfold and see what adventures we get up to here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It has been an unbelievable year. Professionally the best...personally some deep lows thrown in to test our resilience. But it isn't about that here other than it was a big part of what </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">015 was and can't be missed out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">015 was amazing...January is a time for reflection and planning and if I am going to stand any chance of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">016 being half as good I need to do just that...reflect and plan. I hope you will be with me on my journey and let's see where it takes us. I couldn't and can't do it without you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I rarely get the opportunity to see American quilting magazines and I certainly have never been featured in one, so when the lovely <a href="http://www.cherylarkison.com/">Cheryl Arkison</a> asked to feature me in her article on screen printing I was delighted.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The article features some of the best contemporary screen printers worldwide whose company I am honoured to be in. Both the <a href="http://umbrellaprints.com.au/">Umbrella Prints</a> ladies and Leslie Keating of <a href="http://mazeandvale.bigcartel.com/">Maze and Vale</a> of Australia are 2 of my longtime favourite screen printers, so to be featured alongside them really is an honour. </span></div>
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-42708603547742127022015-11-27T02:35:00.001-08:002015-11-27T02:35:30.141-08:00Fabric Club 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167782694325690121.post-11813882815042236592015-11-24T01:26:00.000-08:002015-11-24T01:27:05.171-08:00Edinburgh Workshops...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love that every person comes up with something completely different from the next person...and I love that everyone is so enthusiastic about the thing that I am so passionate about and can not wait to do it again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you Jo for having me and thank you to all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">20 of you ladies for being so amazing and enthusiastic and I can't wait to come up again!</span></div>
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