Friday 4 October 2024

Lets try this again…


OK, lets try again and see if we can resurrect this blog and keep it going, can’t promise but we’ll see… 

English Paper Piecing, or EPP

I’ve been ‘raking’ through boxes of fabric and supplies that I haven’t seen in over five years. It was a bit like Christmas seeing stuff that I'd long forgotten about. 
I came across a box of various unfinished ‘fussy cut’ hexagon rosettes. I knew I was never going to make these hexagons into quilts. Being one of those people that doesn't really have many UFOs, (unfinished objects), I decided to use them in small projects now before starting on anything new.

So, I made the hexies into pieces of fabric big enough to make shopping bags or totes. Layered the “fabric” up with wadding and backing and quilted it on my longarm, just like a quilt…
I used the three spare hexagons on a huge pocket on the back of the black bag, I divided it into three sections that will be really handy coz they go right down to the bottom...









Because these are quilted with wadding inside they are really sturdy bags. At present I'm using them to deliver quilts when necessary, but later I'm sure they will be used for shopping totes...

Well, that was a simple blog post but it wasn't without a few 'incidents', it was a bit of a palaver, adding photos hasn't gotten any easier, in the end I had to email the photos from my phone to my laptop/PC. What good is a blog without photos??
If you have any good tips about resizing photos on your iphone and blogging directly from your iphone please feel free to share....

















Sunday 24 January 2021

Hello, I'm back in blogland after moving house and my quilting workshop twice within 12 months, along with quilting for customers that was a lot of hard work. I have spaces for a few customer quilts in February but I'll only be doing digitised quilting designs for the time being. That is edge to edge quilting using pantographs that flow over your pieced tops no matter which pattern you have used for your piecing. 

I've just updated my Facebook Business page and my Website with my new contact details, so if you really need me that's where you'll find me.

Just to feed your appetite's here's a random selection of photos from my files.

















Monday 7 September 2020

Just like an Art Gallery











How great to have your own “in house art gallery!” Some of these quilts have been on show or won prizes in far away destinations like 
Manchester, New Hampshire
USA Paducah, Kentucky
USA Portland, Oregon, USA 
Birmingham, England, UK 
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 
Oaks, Pennsylvania, USA 
Santa Clara, California, USA 
Palm Beach, Florida, USA 
The larger quilts look equally fantastic gracing the walls of my home... 

Move number one along with renovations.... ✔️ 

 More information can be found on my blog and website... 

www.borderlinequilter.blogspot.com 

www.borderlinequilter.co.uk




    

Sunday 29 September 2019

Oakhampton

Val brought me this gorgeous Oakhampton quilt, it's beautiful fabrics and colours just talk to me, grey, peach and teal blue with a cream background...
It's a Somerset Patchwork pattern by Karen Styles. 
All freemotion hand guided with a double wadding and a combination of cream, grey, khaki sand and invisible threads...
I love the way it turned out and so did Val....