Quilting Pleasure and ARAMINTA DESIGNS

  Hello my dear friends, Choosing my fabrics would have to be my favourite part of quilting. I get a little thrill walking into the shop full of wonderful expectations of finding the "perfect" fabrics. What comes first - the pattern or the fabrics? A bit of both I think. Sometimes you may have a colour scheme in mind, then you find a pattern. A great place to start is Pinterest or just google the type of quilt you would like to create. For example Baby Quilts, Autumn Quilts, Puff Quilts, Modern Quilts, Traditional Quilts. Add the words For Beginners, Medium Ability or even Difficult Quilts. Companies such as Missouri Star Quilt Co., Jordan's Fabrics or Fat Quarter Shop offer step by step tutorials for many patterns. What will your fabrics design include? Solid colours, florals, spots, stripes, dogs, cats - the choices are endless. If all this seems too overwhelming and confusing try curated fabric collections.  These can be purchased as fat quarters, charm packs, jelly ro

  Hello my dear friends A new year of quilting lays ahead for me. I have just finished a quilt for a dear friend of my mum's. I'm really excited to see her reaction as she doesn't know I've been making one for her. She admired one that I made for my aunt, so I always intended to make her one too. Lots and lots of quilting. As long as you don't look too closely I'm happy with the end result. QP by Rhonda

  Hello dear friends I had the pleasure of making a Christmas table runner and placemats for my beautiful friend Dianne. Making this project gave me so much pleasure knowing that in a small way we had a wonderful connection last Christmas. Dianne is a talented photographer and sent me these photos of her Christmas day table. I think you'll agree her table is spectacular. QP by Rhonda