Allsorts For You

This one was actually finished in late 2023 but I didn't take photos until I had finished all three in 'the set' of quilts made from my licorice-allsorts-inspired fabric strips.

Measures at 38" x 46"

Licorice Allsorts and Rainbow Bars

I quilted this on my Elna 720 domestic machine, as I wanted to match up the thread colours with the fabrics and it was easier to do this on the domestic, plus the quilt is not too big to wrangle on the table-top.

I used a mixture of straight-lines, swirls, zigzags and diagonal lines, in various coloured strips, and a ribbon motif was used in the polka dot sashings.

A polka dot binding for this one!

My handy helper hubby! He's (usually) very patient...

You can check out my other quilts made with these bright strips by clicking on the 'allsort' label in the side bar.

All Out of Allsorts

 

Another of my 2024 creations using the licorice allsorts-inspired fabric strips - you can see the other creations by clicking on the 'allsorts' label in the side-bar.

I used my longarm to do straight-line ruler quilting using a variegated Wonderfil thread - Fabulux trilobal 40wt polyester 'Ocean Breeze', which ran so beautifully through my Bernina Q20 longarm - and I love the way the colours show up in the white areas (where I simply followed the same lines of the black sashings).

It is 46" x 54" in size.

This one is staying at home on our sofa as I love the bright colours.

Licorice Allsorts and Rainbow Bars

Love a striped binding!  And made use of some prints from my stash for the backing.

This was the final quilt made with the colourful strips, so I am now officially all out of allsorts!

Rainbow Bars of (All) Sorts

Using up leftovers from this quilt and I think this was one of my favourite finishes of 2024!

I love licorice All Sort lollies and the longer Rainbow Bars.

My workmate Andrea Russell admired this one when I first shared a finished photo earlier in the year, so found herself the recipient of it as a Christmas/thanks-for-all-you-do gift.

Simple straight line quilting for this one, using my Bernina Q20 longarm and a ruler.

When working out a way to use up the strips in an effective and efficient manner, I decided on the graduated sizes and am really pleased with how it turned out.

Finished size is 51.5" x 54/5"

These colours, and the licorice black of the sashing, totally calls for a striped binding, and I used an orange batik from my stash for the backing.

Rainbow Bars - I think yellow is my favourite, but then again...they are all yummy!

You can see all my other quilts using the allsorts theme/colours by clicking on the label 'allsorts' in the side bar.

Cat inspection and approval given.

Gizmo -she looks grumpy but is the sweetest little cat.

Allsorts and Rainbow Bars trio

Another catch-up from 2023-24, with three lap quilts using up leftover strips - one of these having been made in December 2023, and the other two being created and finished during 2024.

I had made all these licorice allsort-themed strips (allsorts are a lolly/sweet/candy) back in 2018 for a farewell quilt for a workmate, and had overestimated how much I would need.

So I had enough for five more quilts in the past six years! Two baby quilts (for Piper Stanway and for Quinn Stanway), and then these three to finally use up all the strips...I will do a separate post for each one...

2024: All Out of Allsorts

2024: Rainbow Bars of (All)Sorts

2023: Allsorts For You

Here is a pic with some 'rainbow bars' and 'allsorts' - you can see my inspiration for the colours and stripes (and quite a few were eaten during the making of these quilts, in the interests of research of course!)

The Big Day

This large lap quilt is made with the 'Cabin Fever' pattern (by Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl, and Amber of Gigi's Thimble), using a fat quarter pack of 'Bedtime Stories' by Elizabeth Chappell for Art Gallery Fabrics.

The fabric has lovely soft colours and cute garden motifs - my favourite is the little mice on the gold/tan print.

The quilt measures 55"x56" as I made it bigger than the pattern version by using more than five fat quarters and making extra blocks to enlarge the quilt size.

I quilted it on my Bernina Q20 longarm (10ft frame) with channel locks to help me make straight lines.

It was completed in October and gifted to my work colleague, Sarah Botting, to mark the occasion of her September wedding to Matt Mclean.

As with many of my quilts, if I don't use a black and white strip for the binding, I use a black and white polka dot. The backing is a sky-blue gingham.

The quilt was given cat-approval by Gizmo...

Ocean Squared

 This is a 60"sq lap quilt that I made in June for my cousin Helen Burgess on the occasion of her 60th birthday.  She and her hubby frequently stay at their crib (aka bach/holiday house) at Riverton on our southern coast so I thought the beach words print fabric that has been in my stash for a number of years was a good starting point for selecting the colours/fabrics.

The pattern was a Courthouse Steps block design in my to-do folder,
originally called 'Christmas Lights' by Linda Douglas
(ripped out of an Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazine,
so I am not sure of the year but it could be as long as ten years ago).

I used my Bernina Q20 longarm machine (on 10' studio frame)
 do some simple line quilting in the courthouse steps blocks,
and did a ribbon loop motif in the outside border.

The backing was made with the leftover solids and the beach words print.
We drove to Oreti Beach (about three minutes from home) for the photos.
If you walk around the entire bay you will eventually make it to Riverton!

It was a lovely Southland winter day, very mild, and Bess enjoyed a bit of a stroll too.