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Opal Essence Workshop : Quiltsmith

26 September, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Opal Essence sofa

Opal Essence is Lorena’s original quilt design. The finished quilt is 83″ x 84″.

In this one day workshop you will learn the techniques and tips to make this stunning quilt.

You will learn how to applique and machine piece the curves, sew accurate y-seams and construct your quilt top with the various setting triangles. Class notes also include bonus instructions for a smaller  baby size quilt measuring 41″ x 48″.

Make this quilt in a variety colours or tones to make it your own!

Cutting is done with an acrylic template set available to purchase from Lorena for $30.

Pink Champagne close up

More details to come or contact Quiltsmith for any queries.

 

Tagged With: Classes, Modern Quilts, Opal Essence, patchwork & quilting, Quilting, Quiltsmith, Sydney, Teaching, Workshop

my cheaty appliqué “thircles”

16 July, 2015 by admin 2 Comments

Yes, you read right. Thircles. You may already know that a squircle is the shape somewhere between a square and a circle but what’s a thircle?

If you’ve seen my Opal Essence quilt you’ll notice that all the circles are made up in thirds. The first quilt was made by appliquéing the third of a circle on to a diamond shape. A simple way to make sure you get a smooth circle is to use a template under your appliqué piece. The great thing about using this technique with a thircle (tee-hee, it still makes me giggle!) is that you can easily remove your template and reuse it.

My template of choice for this technique is a really smooth, bump free freezer paper template. You trace your pattern piece on to freezer paper and cut it out very carefully.

My cheaty applique thircle how to…

1. Press your freezer paper template to the wrong side of your fabric. As you will be folding the fabric over the template to appliqué try to place the curved edge on the diagonal grain. The stretch that lies here on the bias helps to create lovely soft curves with less bumps and folds.

2. If you are fussy cutting and placing the paper on the bias isn’t possible, consider using the fabric in a larger thircle. A larger, gentler curve is more forgiving with stiff fabric.

3. Next, use a ruler with a 1/4″ marking to add your seam allowance to the straight edges of your thircle shape. Cut with a rotary cutter or scissors. I love using an Add-A-Quarter ruler for this step. Using scissors cut a generous 1/4″ seam allowance around the curve.

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4. Use a fabric glue stick to keep the seam allowance tucked under. Use a fine line of glue, about 1/8″ away from the curved edge of the freezer paper. That will help when it comes to sewing the shapes down and will also reduce the chance of your fabric fraying along the raw edge.

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5. Match the seam allowance of your thircle with the corresponding point of your diamond background. Pin or lightly glue your shape into place. I like to pin along both seam allowances where there’s no freezer paper.

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6. Using a thread colour that disappears appliqué the piece down. Use small stitches and pull the thread a little to hide it.

7. Once the shape is appliquéd down, trim away your background with scissors leaving a generous 1/4″ seam.

8. Finally, whip out your freezer paper template to reuse. The less glue you use, the easier it is to remove and reuse the papers.

 

Now that your thircles are appliquéd down, you can piece your diamonds into a hexagon and fan your centre seam.

 

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I’ve been teaching workshops using this appliqué technique as well as the machine pieced thircles and most students are surprised by how much they enjoy the process. The smaller thircles are definitely less stressful if you appliqué them. The larger thircles can be rotary cut and machine pieced pretty quickly and painlessly. You can even mix both techniques in your quilt, maybe stick to one technique in each block though…

Hope that helps someone out there too afraid to try appliquéd curves. Let me know if you have any questions!

 

 

 

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Desert to Sea: 10 Quilts From Australian Designers

21 June, 2015 by admin 4 Comments

images from book

So many exciting things happening around here lately, I’ve fallen behind and so I’ll start with the release of my Opal Essence pattern in Jane Davidson’s fabulous book, Desert To Sea. The book was self published by my clever friend Jane and is available to order right now from Amazon and Book Depository. I know there are a few local fabric stores who are stocking it or taking pre orders too, in most cases this can be a slightly cheaper than paying for the book + overseas postage. Contact Quiltsmith, Material Obsession, Cotton Factory , Patches Indooroopilly and QuiltJane for more information.

Desert To Sea Book: 10 Quilts from Australian Designers

Desert To Sea Book: 10 Quilts from Australian Designers

There are 9 other gorgeous quilts in the book by Jane Davidson, Danielle Auckens, Betty Kerr, Cathy Underhill, Charlotte Dumsney, Rachaeldaisy and Jeannette Bruce. The book has well written patterns, wonderful photography and even colouring pages to help you plan your quilt.

You may have seen some photos on Instagram taken whilst teaching this pattern, it’s proving to be a very enjoyable day class and students are learning lots. Take a look at the #opalessencequilt hashtag to be inspired! You’ll see photos of my two other versions of the quilt too #undertheseaquilt and #pinkchampagnequilt.

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I’ve had acrylic templates made to help speed up the cutting for this pattern and will be listing sets in my shop next week. The acrylic templates set includes 6 pieces to help cut the diamonds and arcs for machine piecing, I’ll also include a full size A3 template sheet and a packet of pre cut freezer paper shapes to give the applique technique I teach in my classes a try. That will be for another blog post!

Template sets are $35 plus postage. I’m also getting 20 copies of the book to sell together with my templates for those who can’t find them locally. The set will be $70 plus postage.

Please contact me if you’d like to pre-order a set as I expect delivery in the first week of July.

book and templates

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Social Tote Workshop at Material Obsession Saturday 27th June

Chuck Nohara Class at Material Obsession Friday 10th July

Chuck Nohara Class at Material Obsession Saturday 10th July

Lorena presenting at Friday Showcase at The Quilters’ Guild of NSW 7th August

Opal Essence Class at Quiltsmith 26th September

Opal Essence Class at Material Obsession Saturday 24th October

 

Filed Under: Front page, Lorena's patterns, Quilts, Uncategorized, Workshops Tagged With: Australian Quilters, Desert to Sea Book, Material Obsession, Modern Quilts, Opal Essence, Quilting, Quiltsmith, Teaching, Workshop

Social Tote Workshop @ Quiltsmith

30 January, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Social Tote Collage

Been itching to make your own Social Tote using Carolyn Friedlander’s pattern? Have you been daunted by the requirement list and too scared to try it on your own? This is the perfect workshop for you! Part of the Quiltsmith Summer School Series,  make this cute as a button carry all for your hand sewing in this one day workshop. Pick up a pattern and interfacing kit for $25 at Quiltsmith or contact me directly to arrange delivery.

Social Tote pieces prepped

This is a complex pattern to tackle in one day from beginning to end. To make the best of your workshop time you will need to do some prep before the class, class notes are available with the kit or by contacting the shop when you book in to the workshop.

Tagged With: Classes, Quiltsmith, Social Tote, Workshop

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