Showing posts with label tokyo quilt festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tokyo quilt festival. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 May 2011

+&x blocks (Fresh Sewing Day)

Fresh Sewing Day @ Lily's Quilts

It's Fresh Sewing Day again, hosted by Lynne@ Lily's Quilts click on her button and head on over there to link up your own favorite sewing project of this month!

Mine has to be the +&x blocks I made, there's a quilt along for these over on Flickr if you'd like to join in the fun.
I've sewed some more of these babies last week and I'm loving them to bits!

+&x blocks progress

I don't think I'll end up keeping the blocks in this order but it's nice to visualize the finished quilt top with these collages.

The blocks are inspired by this quilt, made by Setsuko Inagawa that was displayed at the Tokyo Quilt Festival. We've since traced back this block to 1938  when it was attributed to Nancy Cabot, according to the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilts by Barbara Brackman.

My weekend was all about the royals between Kate and William's wedding {that dress!!} on friday and Queen's Day yesterday I have seen enough people with silly hats waving for a long while now ;-)

How is your weekend?

x Leila


Saturday, 23 April 2011

+ & x blocks


+ & x blocks, originally uploaded by Where the Orchids Grow.
Yesterday Amy Badskirt posted a tutorial for these blocks. I just had to drop everything and start sewing them up. I love them!

Have a very happy Easter weekend

x Leila