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Here is an extension of my Inktense Pencil work, a notebook slip cover. All quilters need that extra space to doodle their quilting designs in pencil before stitching them with the needle. The cover is a miniature interpretation of Helen Godden’s Danish Delights design. When teamed with the soft batik fabric it works well as a notebook cover, made with soft Pellon as batting to enhance the quilting. A lovely small gift to make for a special quilting friend.

A cute wall hanging made for my 6 year old granddaughter. It will be part of her Christmas gift this year. The designs are ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ by Helen Godden. I minimised the images and coloured them with Inktense pencils before releasing the colour with fabric medium. Each block was outline quilted with black rasant thread before quilting the background in cream Magnifico thread by Superior Threads. The quilt was constructed as quilt-as-you-go. I then added a scallop border to frame the blocks.

My Flour Garden Canopy quilt is finished. This is the second quilt made from the fabrics gifted by my friend…she received the first quilt as a surprise birthday gift.
I had some left over fabric, just enough to team with the light grey backing fabric, to make matching pillow covers. I am really happy with the new ‘springtime’ look of our bedroom.

I have been spending some relaxing days colouring and shading with my Inktense Pencils.

The designs are by Helen Godden, her Danish Delights patterns which are based on Helen’s favourite pieces of silver jewellery from Danish silversmiths from the 1930s and 1940s. The subtle colour created by the pencils works really well on the printed cream cotton fabric. The fabric print provides an added element to the design with the fabric weave showing through. The designs are outlined with a black sharpie pen onto the cream fabric then coloured. I used a textile medium to release the pencil colour as this helps prevent bleeding from one area to the next. The final step is the quilting, with some subtle white quilting in the background and black thread to enhance the design.

I decided to use each design as the centre for a series of placemats.

An excellent way to experiment and develop your free motion machine quilting is to play with a fabric panel. Here is a cot panel I have been enhancing . . It lets you be creative and experiment with different fill designs plus allows you to quilt on the printed lines ( similar to quilting in the ditch) to outline each shape. A quick and easy way to prepare a cute quilt for someone special.