Susan Briscoe Designs. I am a designer and textile artist, author of several books and I teach creative textile workshops. You may have noticed that this is the new website. Please bear with me while I get the various pages written and organised (and the irrelevant menu tabs removed!) If you have any questions about my work, books or workshops, please get in touch. Follow my blog at Recent e mail problems - due to difficulties with the new BT internet account, I am still having to use my old e mail address but can only access e mails online at my old ISP's website i.e. I can't download them into Outlook Express any more. This morning, all the saved e mails from 19th December onwards had been deleted from the ISP's page.
Forthcoming events From April 24th to May 9th I will be in Japan. Exhibition with Yuza Sashiko Guild at Loch Lomond Quilt Show, Wednesday 14th - Saturday 17th May, Renton Parish Church (to be confirmed). コットン工房MIYAKO. Quilting in Japan - Google Image Search. Quilt Blocks Galore! Quilting japanese patterns free color pages.
Mmmm... More Japanese Quilt Block Pillows. My latest project is another one from the book Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match. I had purchased some blue fabric last week, and constructed block #5, otherwise known as Kurume kasuri igeta. I was very happy with the results, and have been plotting since then about what block to do next. I settled on the very next one, #6 - Yamato kasuri igeta (Yamato well curb). I am truly attracted to the simplicity of the designs and colors laid out in the book, but I like to add just a little bit of pattern to add more texture and fun to the look.
First I pieced 5 strips of fabric together... ... and then cut them perpendicularly to create the 1st, 3rd, and 5th columns below. I did this as a "time saving" method, but it left me with a lot of extra sewn fabric that I couldn't use for this project. I chain stitched the remaining squares for columns 2 and 4: After I sewed the columns together, I added the outside strips. The most major change was adding this colorful 1 1/2" border. Japanese Lantern. Get Your Free Quilt Patterns From Us! Skip to content Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published.
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