Tea
Cups in Lightning: 1989 (Started: 1988)
A machined foundation pieced log cabin block
made with the Fort Queenscliff Quilters in 1988. Lyn Cross (may have?) led this group workshop
in 1988 following on from either a demo or showing in 1987. Patterns were provided at the class and we
used thin white cotton as our foundation for each block. I chose a brown and cream colour way – very
safe and very neutral. And now just so vintage! This style of machining was easy and accurate,
so we had our required number of blocks ready, and by the end of the day most
of us took a top home.
Just for the Record:
Quilt Finished Size: 93 x 138cm
Block Size: 19cm
Cut in: 1988
Pieced & Basted: Machine 1988
Quilted: Hand quilted and tied 1989
Quilt Type: Foundation Piecing Workshop
Quilt Finished: Apr 1989
Exhibited:
Collection: Home# 009
Pattern Name: Log Cabin set in Streak of Lightning
Pattern Source: Workshop
Fabrics Purchased: 1988
Fabric Design: Plains & vintage look prints
Fabric Style: Cotton
Materials Type: Cotton
Wadding Type: Thin Poly Batt
Backing: Cotton
Lessons Learned:
I was starting to learn that to finish quilts and workshop samples I needed to keep them small so my preferred size became “lap quilt”. This quilt was fun and easy introduction to foundation piecing and better yet, needed little quilting. My Elna (blue top) purchased many years ago was earning its keep although perhaps not quite how my mother had intended. We had bought the machine together at Myer in Chermside (a Brisbane suburb) after I had agreed (more or less) to make more of my own clothes.
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| Tea cups were used to mark quilting lines |
We chose to attempt a lap quilt size, given
our busy lives and being somewhat daunted at the time needed to hand quilt
(another) finished top. I set the log
cabin blocks in a streak of lightning setting and then tied in the centre of
each log cabin with perle thread. Each
block was then hand quilted with a fan to highlight the log shapes. Finally, I did a traditional tea cup quilting
design (overlapping circles) in the border, also by hand.
The batting was a very low loft poly and
overall added to the vintage look that I was attempting.
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| Perhaps you remember some of these fabrics? Classic 80's |
Quilt Finished Size: 93 x 138cm
Block Size: 19cm
Cut in: 1988
Pieced & Basted: Machine 1988
Quilted: Hand quilted and tied 1989
Quilt Type: Foundation Piecing Workshop
Quilt Finished: Apr 1989
Exhibited:
Collection: Home# 009
Pattern Name: Log Cabin set in Streak of Lightning
Pattern Source: Workshop
Fabrics Purchased: 1988
Fabric Design: Plains & vintage look prints
Fabric Style: Cotton
Materials Type: Cotton
Wadding Type: Thin Poly Batt
Backing: Cotton
Lessons Learned:
I was starting to learn that to finish quilts and workshop samples I needed to keep them small so my preferred size became “lap quilt”. This quilt was fun and easy introduction to foundation piecing and better yet, needed little quilting. My Elna (blue top) purchased many years ago was earning its keep although perhaps not quite how my mother had intended. We had bought the machine together at Myer in Chermside (a Brisbane suburb) after I had agreed (more or less) to make more of my own clothes.
