Me and My Sister Class & Quilt

July sure was a good month for us Bris­bane-ite’s.   Di Mills organ­ised for Barb & Mary from Me and My Sis­ter Designs to tour Down Under and I was lucky enough to get a spot in to the Slice of Cake 2 class at Patches Indoo­roopilly.  It was great!  This pic­ture is one I snapped of Barb & Mary’s quilt, just one of many they brought along to show us.

Me&MySister Slice of Cake Quilt

Barb & Mary are excel­lent teach­ers and I thor­oughly enjoyed learn­ing a few new tricks while mak­ing a few blocks amidst the laughter and fun.

SheQuiltsAlot Slice of Cake 2 Blocks

I was super lucky and won this bundle of Giggle’s fab­ric in a game that involved a whole heap of bal­loons and George Clooney (I’ll leave the rest up to your ima­gin­a­tion but lets just say there were a few rib­ald comments!)

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And, as if that was­n’t gen­er­ous enough Barb & Mary loaded us all up with heaps of gifts through­out the day.  I’m sure I took home more than I came with and I’m look­ing for­ward to cre­at­ing one of the Me and My Sis­ter Designs super cute charm pack pat­terns with their new fab­ric line Dot Dot Dash.

Prizes

Me & My Sister Spools Charm Pack Quilt

And of course, I’ll be snip­ping threads when I do make it with this pair of scis­sors that now hangs off my sew­ing machine cour­tesy of the ador­able scis­sor fob Barb helped us all make.

Scissor Fob

Just this week I’ve man­aged to fin­ish off my small ver­sion of the Slice of Cake 2 pat­tern.   I ori­gin­ally thought I would make it a bit more col­our­ful than this (and a little big­ger) but these blocks just seem to work so well togeth­er I figured it was bet­ter to quit while I was ahead.   There’s always someone you can gift a baby sized quilt to right!?!

SheQuiltsAlot Slice of Cake Quilt

The only prob­lem is that I can not for the life of me fig­ure out how to quilt it.   Any sug­ges­tions you have will be very grate­fully received.   Actu­ally, they’ll be more than grate­fully received, you’d be a lifesaver if you can help me fig­ure this out!

Really look­ing for­ward to hear­ing your sug­ges­tions (like really really)…

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7 thoughts on “Me and My Sister Class & Quilt

  1. Hi Peta, love how dif­fer­ent your blocks look with the two col­ours for the out­er ‘spikes’. Looks very fresh and mod­ern. My quilt­ing idea for you is a dia­mond grid. I think it would help emphas­ise those beau­ti­ful X ‘s and keep it look­ing mod­ern and quite geo­met­ric. Will be inter­ested to see what you decide, it will look great no mat­ter what!

  2. It’s gor­geous Peta! I’d extend the lines cre­ated by the col­oured piecing into the back­ground and cre­ate x shapes diag­on­ally between the blocks (if that makes sense?) And then do lots of dense straight lines fol­low­ing those angles. Let me know if you want a sketch of what I mean, lol!

  3. love your ver­sion of the quilt. Great fab­ric and I think you did right to stop there. Hmmm no idea how to quilt it. The dia­monds idea sounds great, and the echo.

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