Show and Tell

Our January sit and sew day was an inspiring start to the New Year! We spent most of the day just sewing and chatting and having a nosey at what everyone else was sewing - perfect! At lunchtime we had our usual show and tell with some fabulous quilts. Helen's quilt above is based on the Giant Vintage Star tutorial by Jeni Baker and makes great use of fat quarters in a quick to make quilt.

Here's another of Helen's

Beautiful hexagons from a layer cake and the free 'Hexagon Park' pattern on Moda Bake Shop -just stunning!

Jane's quilt top uses simple blocks - squares with a triangle pieced to two corners, in a lovely gentle colour palette.

Sue brought along a great scrappy colour block quilt  above and her take on the 'Low Volume' quilt many of us made last year, shown below

Liz had also finished her Low Volume quilt and the off centre spiral quilting looked great!

She was working on this stunning star quilt and trying to decide how to quilt the stars. We all liked the backing fabric and will be visiting the store where she bought it soon!

I loved this applique design made by Sheila but she said she wasn't keen on the technique used - raw edge applique!

Quiltsue of 'Pick Four' fame brought this stunner from a Kim Bracket design. I think I spot more that 4 fabrics in this one Sue!!

June is one of our newer members and sews quilts for Project Linus. Here's a fun idea for children made from scraps of novelty prints:  

And a brilliant frog quilt:

Margaret who also joined us recently had pieced this scrappy quilt. 

And although not a modern quilt we all admired the embellishments on this crazy patchwork:

Last but not least another beautiful scrap quilt but I can't remember whose it is - sorry! If it's yours please add a comment below!

We also spent a bit of time talking about and looking at Pinterest for those not familiar with it, and discussed how we can use Facebook, this blog and new (to some of us!) Instagram etc. Please 'like' our Facebook page, look out for our tag #yorkshiremodernquilters on Instagram and visit our Pinterest boards. Check back here for some guest blog posts from our members in the near future!

Hazel

Show and Tell

Earlier this month we had another lovely sit and sew day with 16 of us spending the day sewing and chatting, sharing projects and enjoying a delicious 'Fuddle'! Our show and tell was as spectacular as ever with stunning quilts and works in progress. Janet and Jackie treated us to an explanation and demo of crumb quilting with lots of examples to admire. The photo above is of Janet's finished Trip Around the World started on a previous SASD and made entirely of 2" squares of red, white and blue fabrics.

Here are some of the crumb and scrappy blocks on display:

Davina also brought her Trip Around the World to show:

And here are more fantastic quilts from our show and tell:

Sewing machine cover

Pumpkin Table Runner

Medallion Quilt from a pattern in 'Love Patchwork and Quilting'

Whacky Houses

I'm afraid I didn't get photos of all the quilts so apologies to everyone I missed. You can see more on our Facebook page where Liz is keeping us updated with news, photos and events. If you have photos to share you could add them to our Flickr page.

Our next SASD will be on January 18th, 2014 at Deepdale Community Centre Bosoton Spa. I'll be posting more details in the New Year. So until then

Merry Christmas!

Hazel

Crumb Piecing on Saturday 7th December

Our next Sit and Sew Day is this coming Saturday at Deepdale.

This month I will be showing lots of examples of crumb quilting with some block patterns for you to try if you wish.

If you want to join in just bring some scraps to play along!

We are also having a bring and share lunch as well as the usual awesome show and tell!

Here are some examples of crumb blocks:-

 Also a lovely example of a crumb quilt.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Janet x

Sit and Sew Day News

Hello! Hazel here. Sorry for the long silence but I've been busy enjoying the summer and I'm afraid I've been neglecting my blogging duties! The Harrogate Quilt Show starts tomorrow and that signals the start of the Autumn term is imminent!

We'll be meeting more frequently from now on - about once a month. The first will be on Saturday 21st September at Deepdale Community Centre,  Boston Spa just south of Wetherby and a stone's throw from the A1. We'll meet from 10am to 4pm and you can either work on your own project or have a go at making a quilt similar to Andrea's quilt pictured above.

For those of you planning to stock up on fabrics at the show the requirements for Andrea's quilt are:
For a small version (30" square approx) you'll need 11 pieces of fabric 13" square in neutral prints or solids and one 13" square in a bright colour. Andrea added sashing and a border to hers so I guess a metre for the sashing and half for the borders should just about do.

For a larger version  (60" square)  you'll need 33 neutral 13" squares and three in the bright fabric. You would easily get three 13" squares from a half metre of fabric.

Please let me know if you are planning to come to the SASD as space is limited at Deepdale and we don't want to run out of tables!

Enjoy the show if you're going. Hopefully I'll post lots of photos in a few days time.

Hazel

A Scrappy Trip Around Yorkshire!

Yesterday was our third Sit and Sew Day and a very productive day it turned out to be! We started out with strips:

The sewing machine's whirred as the strips were sewn together:

Then we cut the strip sets up into sections and wielded our seam rippers to create our Trip around Yorkshire blocks - to everyone outside God's own county they might be known as Trip Around the World!

If you'd like to make your own Trip Around Yorkshire then follow this link to Bonnie Hunter's tutorial. If you really can't face making something quite so scrappy then this one might suit you better!

A couple of people were working on their own projects:

Of course there was lots of chatter and laughter along the way with plentiful supplies of tea and biscuits. At lunchtime we had a show-n-tell of lovely quilts:

 Time flew by so fast we really could have stayed much longer!

We're looking forward to our next get-together when Andrea is going to show us how to make her quilt which we all loved:

There'll be more details soon of what you need to bring if you want to have a go. Our next SASD will be on September 21st at Boston Spa so put the date in your diary!

In the meantime if you have blogged about any of our SASDs or have blogged about making a Scrappy Trip Around the World please leave a comment below with a link to your post. We would also welcome some guest posts on this blog so let me know if you'd like to contribute!

Happy Stitching!

Hazel

Sit and Sew day 3

Liz's Trip Around the World quilt

At last I have dates for your diary! Our next Sit and Sew Day will be on Sunday June 16th at Clifford Village Hall, Albion Street, Clifford (view maps here: http://www.clifford-pc.org.uk/google-map12) from 10am to 4pm. As usual we'll have a show and tell and lots of lovely chat interspersed with a cuppa and plan to do lots of sewing!

Last time we met we decided to have a go at the 'Trip Around the World' which Liz had brought to show us. She promised us it is very quick and easy! The instructions are from Bonnie Hunter and you can read more on Quiltville's Quips and Snips. If you want to join in the project bring along strips 2.5" by at least 16" in light or dark fabrics and we can swap fabrics to have more variety.

There will have to be a limit on the number of quilters attending so it is essential that you book in advance. To do so please send  an email with your name and contact details by clicking here. We will charge approximately £7 on the day to cover the room hire costs and refreshments and a couple of draw prizes.

From the Autumn we plan to start meeting more frequently. Here are the dates for future reference: September 21st, October 19th and December 7th. These are all booked at Deepdale Community Centre in Boston Spa.