Monday, June 19, 2006

Home is Where the Hearts Are

...and today, my Hearts quilt (full title as above) has come home from Australia. Huh! Even I haven't been to Oz but Hearts has been there since February. It's one of the quilts featured as a pattern in Patchwork & Stitching magazine this month, and it's been there so the publishers could photograph it. This is the first time I've had a pattern in a magazine!

My daughter Sophie commandeered Hearts last year as spare bedding for her flat, because it's so cosy. It is, in fact, a "faux flannel" quilt, fully reversible, and made with exposed frayed edges like flannel quilts but it's made entirely of ordinary cottons (mainly my hand dyes, of course) with cotton batting. The exposed edges are clipped with scissors to make them fray and fluff up. Posted by Picasa

7 comments:

kirsten said...

Yay Shirley!! Congrats on the publication!

Shelina said...

Congratulations on being published. That is a beautiful quilt. I really like the fabric.

Catherine - Mixed Media Artist said...

and from me to - a me to CONGRATULATIONS - You go Girl :-))))

Deb Hardman said...

The quilt is soooo yummy! It looks very cozy, & congratulations on being published!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Shirley - a really lovely quilt. Look forward to seeing it in the magazine.
Anne .... Dunedin

Joyce said...

Congrats! It must be so exciting to have something in a magazine. I never thought of using cotton for that fraying technique. Great idea and beautiful quilt.

Unknown said...

Wonderful Quilt, luscious colour, congratulations on being published,