Meandering Landscape

and Moon Trees

As part of my role as Moxie Mentor Ambassador for Pinhole Quilting I’ve been developing a new workshop especially for their Handi Quilter customers.

This one is a bit different for me as it is focussing on the quilting side rather than improv piecing or hand stitching. I taught beginners FMQ for many years when I had my Edinburgh studio but haven’t gone beyond this as I would never consider myself to be a maestro on things like intricate feathers or ruler work.

However I have developed my own unique style over the years, something I call Modern Improv Doodles. I like to use simple graphic patterns and drift between them adding details here and there. I’ve now got quite a few signature moves and this class is a way to share these ideas and my approach with other long armers (though all of this could be achieved on a domestic machine this class is specifically for Pinhole Quilting’s customers).

But nobody wants to spend all day quilting (it can be quite intense!) so to break the class up and offer more tuition we will start with a simple Freehand Curves Landscape. This is the basis for my Poplars quilt (and online class) and similar to my recent February Landscape art quilt but without any trees.

This should give us a good sized top to practice the different quilting motifs, and the curved sections will provide definite areas to fill. I will be teaching some of my favourite designs such as coffee beans, interlocking squares, contours, micro girds and kissing leaves. The hot pink fabric I used on the back really helps show off the quilting.

Finally we will finish with a little hand stitched embellishment using these felt ‘sand dollars’. I love adding a little stitchy texture to my work and these are quick and easy to so.

If you are a Handi Quilter customer in the UK and would like to join me for this class then tickets just went on sale! The workshop is on Sunday 25th October. Just click on the button below for more.

The workshop includes all the fabric and supplies needed to make this piece. I chose these Marcia Derse fabrics from Windham for my sample as I thought they were so cool and unusual and Pinhole are providing the same (or similar) from Marcia Derse’s collections for the kit. I will provide the felt and the Aurifil 8wt thread.

I like this fabric range so much that I used it for my latest Moon Trees sample. I bought my fabrics from Cotton Patch here.

I am currently recording my videos for the Moon Trees online class which goes live on 1st July and I wanted to try fabrics other than mu usual linen/woven textures to give students more options. I made one in Windham Artisan Cotton (below) and another in left overs from Meandering Landscape (above).

Expect lots more Moon Trees coming soon!

Meanwhile you can now sign up for this workshop, the next Thread House Academy class of 26/27, by clicking on the button below.