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Wonderful to see my hexagon quilt from issue 21 of @todaysquilter pop up in the current issue ☺️. Still so many things I love a bout this one not least the random printed linen Hexagons placement in the background 😍. #hexagonhappenings #hexagonquilt #hexagonpatchwork #todaysquilter #hexies #hexiequilt #modernpatchwork #modernquilt #modernquilting #modernmaker #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #machinepieced #machinepiecedhexagons #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

And amongst other things this week I’m on a HST burst. It’s a project that has been stagnant a while, but is being spurred on by this specialist ruler from @grovesltd that I asked to try.
The great thing about these gadget type rulers for me is:
> if you’re cutting squares and HST from fabric strips, you use the same width of strip, no adding that pesky 7/8in and then looking for it on the ruler! So it saves time and fabric 😃
> you can cut the fabrics you want sewn together in pairs, so once cut they are ready to sew 😃
> I chain piece these , pointy end first, and for those of you who have to trim the ears, there is only only set to do 😃
>swipe through to see my process and you can see how clear the ruler is marked up for easy use 😃

Yes I’ve had other rulers that do the same thing, but this one covers a good range of sizes and the markings are fine and clear, so easy to use. It comes with a little instruction sheet and as it’s British made, easy for you local quilt shop to get hold of for you!

And in the interests of transparency I was given the ruler, 🙏 but all fabrics used are my own from my stash 😃.
#grovesltd #hstruler #patchwork #quiltinprogress #sewyourstash #usewhatyouhave #quiltersofinstagram #makesrgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

#favouritefabricfriday
Yes, I know it’s a whole quilt (well coverlet actually, as there is no batting ), but if you swipe you’ll see the focus fabric for this week 🤓.
It’s a bright woven check and I had made myself a dress from it. This is all 30+ years ago now 🤷‍♀️, and the rest of the patchwork has a story too, but that fabric that I made as a dress is one I’m pleased is in the quilt, as the dress is long gone. And that’s the nice thing about patchwork and using old clothes or left over dressmaking scraps. And that’s why making a patchwork can cost you very little.
The black and red check was a shirt of my husbands, and the other checks came from fabrics my mum had in her dress making scrap bag. The black border was a skirt I cut up that I’d lived in in my sixth form years at school. I loved that skirt 😍. I love that it’s in this quilt!
It’s backing is incredibly soft needlecord which I got from Laura Ashley in a donation bag. I was training to teach, and you could ask them for off cuts for your classes. You just had to collect the bin bag they sent to the shop!
I used the bagged out finish, and tied it with buttonhole twist, which was the thickest thread I could buy. Most of them are coming undone now, and will come out as the ends were sooo short! It was all stitched on my machine and I must have used templates and tape measures to cut, as rotary cutting was not a thing back then.
This quilt for me is the perfect example of the fact that it doesn’t all have to be perfect. If you have intention you will find a way.have you got old clothes and memories in your patchwork?
#usewhatyouhave #wastenotwantnot #createandsustain #properpatchwork #sustainablesewing #sustainablequilting #favouritefabric #patchwork #tiedquilt #utilityquilting #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

Quick reminder that if you’re stitching away with the Vintage Diamonds templates from issue 83 of @todaysquilter , then there are hand piecing hints and tips videos here on the my video is page, and more over on my website 😃🧵. It’s often so much easier if you can see someone actually stitching ! #handpiecing #handpieced #patchwork #patchworkquilt #tiedquilt #scrapquilt #reusereducerecycle #sustainablesewing #sustainablequilting #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #slowstitching #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts #todaysquilter

So much going on , and so little to show 🤷‍♀️. And when you’re busy it’s best to sew something of little consequence to get the ideas out of your head and into reality.
I’m often thinking about needle and sewing books, and this one was waiting to be hatched!
The outer cover is leftover strings from another block. I quilted it on my Sashiko machine with some batting and an old sheet. The lining inside is an old shirt of my husbands, then a scrap of printed linen with a print I’ve always loved. The pages are a boiled wool blanket piece. All something from nothing, and now I’m thinking I have an old clothing label that might look quite fun added to it🤓. Watch out in my stories to see if I get round to it 🧵🤣. #needlebook #scrapfabric #usewhatyouhave #sustainablesewing #sewyourstash #makersgonnamake #stringquilt #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

So many projects on the go at the moment, and ideas to play with, it’s always hard to work out what to Stitch first! Here’s a string project that had a lull as I couldn’t decide on the posts, but I think I’m on track now! What are you stitching today? #stringquilt #stringquilts #patchwork #quiltinprogress #useeveryscrap #usewhatyouhave #sustainablesewing #sustainablequilting #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts #quiltersofinstagram

#favouritefabricfriday
And I would have posted sooner but was completely distracted by the fabulous weather 🌞🙏. Keep swiping and you’ll see why!
This print 😍, and I had it in at least two other colour ways, and it still never cease to be in wonder in whichever patchwork I put it in. It is way old, check out that selvedge @rjrfabrics 🤓. I’ll be chopping into this one over the weekend, are you putting your #favouritefabrics in your patchwork, or curating them in your stash?
#favoritefabric #rjrfabrics #fabricstash #pettlevel #spanishwaterdogsofinstagram

Anyone else have separate pincushions for separate pin types ? Asking for a friend 😉. @clovermfg @cloverusa #pins #notions #clovernotions #pincushion #pincushions #haberdashery #sewingbox #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

#onepatch #onepatchquilt
Don’t clamshells look like smiles, such happy patchwork 🙂.
Swipe to see the back of this sample piece from Twenty to Make One Patch Quilts from @searchpress . I hand piece so no papers and no appliqué 🧵. A great scrap project as I think lots of you already know! #patchwork #handpiecing #handsewing #quiltinprogress #clamshellquilt #onepatchquilt #searchpress #scrapfabric #scrapquilt #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

So today I’m showing you a bit of Modern Patchwork 🤓. I was spurred on by a post over on @barbarachainey and the amazing folded log cabin quilt she’s talking about. I just love it, pure QAYG 😃. And it prompted me to share some pages in the book about Canadian Log Cabin. I’ve never heard of this term before, Manx Log Cabin, yes, but not this. It turns out from the instructions that the fabric is already folded before sewing, and I realised that I’d done this a while back in one of my Jelly Rolls book with @searchpress .
I used @vlieseline_uk gridded interfacing as my base for the lines and basically used the same method as the 1949 book . Don’t you just love that what goes around comes around, nothing really new just different fabrics 🤷‍♀️. Anyway swipe through to read the instructions of this modern method and make sure to see Barbara’s wonderful example 🧵. #modernpatchwork #patchwork #patchworkquilt #logcabinpatchwork #canadianlogcabinpatchwork #foldedpatchwork #modernquilter #quilthistory #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #qayg #quiltasyougo #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts #searchpress #vlieseline

Now time to sit and hand quilt tonight with #saturdaynightcraftalong and @charmaboutyou Lucy! I’m starting out on my alphabet quilt and Baptist Fans in Big Stitch Quilting 🧵🤓🧵. You’ll probably see a lot of this on Saturday nights, as I’m on a roll to get it finished! #scrapquilt #usewhatyouhave #bigstitchquilting #utilityquilting #baptistfanquilting #baptistfan #handquilting #quiltingbyhand #handquilted #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

Those of you know who know me, know I love hand piecing and hand quilting. I make quilts for the handwork really. If it’s machine pieced, it’s so I can hand quilt it. Even quilts that I get long armed often get some big stitch quilting added after.
So it may surprise you to learn that I’ve got off the fence and brought a @babylocksewing Sashiko machine 🤓🧵 from the ever wonderful @world_of_sewing_ 😃.
I do machine quilt on my regular machines and I’m ok at it, but I don’t love doing it. And if I do too much the quilts end up really stiff 🙄.
So I’m as surprised as the next person to find that I’ve spent all day on my Sashiko machine. I just love the outcome and I love the process, and the quilts aren’t as stiff after dense quilting 🥳.
So here’s how it went, today I was trying to figure out how to make more tile quilt blocks without the hand appliqué. Then I thought I could raw edge appliqué the pieces down with the machine quilting (like a quilt in my QAYG book ),which led to a Boromono inspired piece, and then another. And now I’ve had to stop, because, well because I can’t do that all day can I ?
Swipe through to see the bits I did, and if you think you might like to try the machine, or hire time on one check out @madeandmaking , as my endless chats with Sarah about the machine all helped in pushing me over the edge!
Hoping your stitching today has led you down some new paths 🧵🤓🧵.
#babylocksashiko #machinequilting #machinesashiko #machinequilted #quiltasyougo #qayg #boro #boroinspired #scrapfabric #sustainablequilting #patchwork #scrapquilt #usewhatyouhave #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #madeandmaking #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

#favouritefabricfriday
Doesn’t this fabric remind you of summer? We have had two sunny days on the trot here, so even though it will no doubt be grey for the weeks to come, at least we had these. And that how I feel about this fabric. Although I’ll never have yardage that I could use in my own quilt, at least a I gaze at it here! Oh, and that last picture, I love that too and it’s right next to today’s choice, didn’t want it to be left out! 😉 #favouritefabric #vintagequilt #vintagefabric #quiltblock #patchwork #handquilted

I saved a post from @saroy many moons ago because I too wanted to stitch postcards like hers. I possibly even brought some stiffening to use for the purpose, but who knows where that is or if it even happened🤷‍♀️.
Fast forward to today when I had to visit @world_of_sewing_ , and had the foresight to make a list. And out I came with pelmet stiffening,the heavy duty, double sided iron on adhesive type 😃.
The rest is history, and a learning curve. The patchwork is fine, I can do that. The quilting is fine, I can do that, well once I remembered to change to a suitable needle 🤦🏽‍♀️. Then the finishing. Lots of folks back their postcards with card, so I did, and then when I finished the edges the dense stitch perforated the card 🙄. That’s why one card is smaller, as I cut the edge stitching off and then adhered both the quilted pieces to a piece of fabric ☺️. So I’ve learnt a lot and I’m ticking the box of having made quilted postcards. And to be honest I’ll make more of these as it wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be 🥳.
#Patchwork #patchworkpostcards #quiltedpostcard #machinequilting #machinequilted #scrapfabric #usewhatyouhave #makersgonnamake #sustainablequilting #enjoytheprocess #worldofsewing #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts #tunbridgewells

And yes, at last the sun has come out for a full day in southern England 🌞.
And to celebrate here’s a mini quilt, table topper, coaster, whatever you want to use it for, that I loved stitching. It was for Twenty to Stitch Jelly Roll Scraps from @searchpress and incorporates so many of my favourite things; Scraps and big stitch quilting. And to be honest now I’ve got this out, wouldn’t it be fun to make a whole set for a summer picnic table 😃. If I start now I might be in with a chance 🤣🤣. #twentytostitch #searchpress #patchwork #quilt #miniquilt #bigstitch #valdanithreads #handquilting #handquilted #scrapfabric #jellyrollquilt #patchworkquilt #quiltingbyhand #makersgonnamake #enjoytheprocess #sunshine #usewhatyouhave #carolynforster #carolynforsterquilts

Books

Quilt As You GoJune 28, 2021 - 9:57 am
Big Stitch QuiltingApril 23, 2021 - 1:44 pm
Love Jelly Roll QuiltsOctober 26, 2020 - 1:54 pm
Mini Quilt BlocksDecember 26, 2018 - 3:19 pm
The Joy of Jelly RollsOctober 26, 2018 - 3:25 pm
The Handmade QuiltOctober 26, 2018 - 3:25 pm
Sew Layer Cake Quilts & GiftsOctober 26, 2018 - 3:24 pm
One Patch QuiltsOctober 26, 2017 - 3:20 pm
Little Quilts & Gifts from Jelly Roll ScrapsOctober 26, 2015 - 3:17 pm
Hexagon HappeningsOctober 26, 2015 - 3:15 pm
Quilting On The Go: Taking It FurtherOctober 26, 2014 - 3:22 pm
Jelly Roll ScrapsOctober 26, 2014 - 3:16 pm
Utility QuiltingOctober 26, 2012 - 3:26 pm
Sew Jelly Roll Quilts And GiftsOctober 26, 2012 - 3:23 pm
Quilting On The GoOctober 26, 2008 - 3:20 pm

Patterns

Snowball TemplatesOctober 26, 2020 - 4:55 pm
Pattern Box – Crazy Quilt Cushion PatternOctober 26, 2020 - 4:34 pm
Hexagon Happenings TemplatesOctober 26, 2015 - 4:33 pm
Quilt PatternsJanuary 26, 2015 - 4:38 pm

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