Quilts | mary emmens

WIP Wednesday and a call for pattern testers

2 Dec

I showed a sneak peek last week of what I’d been working on and now I’m pleased to say I have a finished quilt top: I’ve been thinking about this for a while, I’m a fan of Welsh Blankets (if...
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Scrappy Mini

30 Nov

After making one mini quilt for a small child’s Christmas gift I decided that another similar aged small child could have one too. I used this tutorial which I used countless times when making Oh My Stars quilt. All from...
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A mini from scraps

13 Nov

You might not remember this quilt from December last year: It was made with 6 FQ’s and I kept the leftovers just because that’s what I do! I discovered them one day last week and wondered what I could do with...
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Another bee quilt

26 Oct

I’m leaving it a bit late to enter a quilt for bloggers quilt festival just because I’ve not had the time to sit down and write! But here it now is: This is a bee quilt with blocks made by...
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Disappearing Nine Patch

2 Oct

I’m really pleased to have another quilt finish to show you this week. I finished stitching down the binding this morning and took some photo’s on my phone in the garden! Usually Tobit does the photography while I (or a...
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Scrappy Log Cabin #3

1 Oct

So I wasn’t really expecting to finish 2 scrappy log cabin quilts in one week (and get photo’s taken and a blog post written!). You can read about the one I finished last week here. This one is not...
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Scrappy Log Cabin #2

28 Sep

Way back in February I finished a scrappy log cabin quilt and started blocks for another one or two! Over the months I’ve added to the blocks and they appeared on my 2nd quarter FAL list and my 3rd quarter FAL...
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A blue quilt

22 Sep

I heard some rubbish news the other week; the sort that provokes the reaction ‘I can’t do much but I can make him a quilt, that might bring some comfort’. So the other Friday evening I pulled fabric: By Sunday...
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WIP Wednesday

16 Sep

Well I think I’ve never had more than one quilt on the go before apart from when I was in the middle of Siblings Together quilts earlier this year. I’m hand binding the Winterberry quilt: Yesterday I finished piecing the...
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What a lot of sewing

9 Jul

Well I must say I feel like I had a very productive quarter, not everything is ticked off my list but I made a good effort! 1. City Gym shorts for Leah: I ended up making 5 pairs of these!...
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