Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL - Gallery

DQ Aliya shared this awesome 4 part QAL on Seminole Patchwork and here's a look at some of the projects completed (and started)..


Manju


Tina


Tina


Tina


Nikhat


Aliya


Nikhat


Aliya


Caroline


Caroline


Tina


Aliya


Aliya


Suchi


Nikhat


Varsha


Prabha


Gayathri


Sobana

Thank you for that very interesting QAL, Aliya !

Manju's Circles-Drunkard's Path QAL - Part 2

Manju's Circles-Drunkard's Path QAL - Part 1

Here's the second and final part of the lovely QAL. Do share pictures of your work with us and we'll be happy to add it to our gallery.

Manju's Circles-Drunkard's Path QAL - Part 2

Manju's Circles-Drunkard's Path QAL - Part 1

Desi Quilters was founded with the idea of providing a platform for sharing and adding to the collective knowledge of the art that is Quilting.Taking the idea forward, we have with us another delightful Quilt-Along (QAL), this time from the delightful DQ Manju, a lady who is all elegance both in her self as well as her work.

So do join us in this journey along the drunkard's path (er..that didn't sound right, did it?) and try your hand at this deceptively simple QAL.

Manju's Circles-Drunkard's Path QAL-Part 1

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#4

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#1
Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#2
Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#3

Aliya's Seminole Qal Part 4

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#3

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#1
Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#2

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork Part 3

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#2

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#1

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork -Part 2

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#1

There are awesome people and there are awesome quilters and then there are some awesome quilter-people. Aliya is one such gem of a person with a ready smile, sweet with her words, kind with her thoughts and neat and precise with her piecing and quilting. She brings for us a Quilt-Along (QAL) on the intricate looking Seminole Patchwork Technique.

Aliya's Seminole Patchwork QAL#1

Vani's Faux Chenille QAL - Gallery

For those who missed Vani's wonderful QAL on Faux Chenille, here it is..just click on the below.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Part 4
 

And here's a gallery of projects and WIPs of those who did follow the QAL and added one more technique to their quilt kitty

Sabine

Tina

Nikhat

Ranju

Nirmala

Nikhat again

Ranju again

Uma

Gayathri

Madhu

 

Ranju yet again :-)

Tina again

..and the Chenille lady herself..Vani ! *applause*

Thank you Vani, for the superb QAL !

Vani's Faux Chenille QAL - Part 4

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Vani's Chenille QAL - Part 4 (Applique) 

Vani's Faux Chenille QAL - Part 3

Click here for Part 1
Click here for Part 2

Vani's Chenille QAL - Part 3 

Vani's Faux Chenille QAL - Part 2

Vani's FauxChenille QAL - Part 1  - click here.

Vani's Chenille QAL - Part 2 

Vani's Faux Chenille QAL - Part 1

The Desi connection brings Vani (Vanita) to DQ, all the way from Australia. A warm and lovely person, she has been wowing us with her enthusiasm and creations ever since she joined. She blogs at 'Quiltey Quips' and also has a business website, Vanita's Quilting Services. When DQ asked for volunteers for QALs, Vani, unhesitatingly and cheerfully put her hand up. She makes Faux Chenille sound so easy with her clear, step-by-step QAL.
Vani's Chenille QAL - Introduction by

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Gallery

Whoa! Thats some serious eye candy from Nima. Nima, who blogs at 'Made to treasure' did this amazing QAL for DQ on Foundation Piecing:

Introduction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Here are pics of some completed projects and WIPs from grateful DQs..



Gayathri


Maya


Zain


Uma


Tina


Prajakta


Preetha

Thank you Nima!

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Part 3

So we come to the last and final part of Nima's Foundation Pieced QAL. The previous parts can be found here:

Introduction
Part 1
Part 2

Do take a printout of the border templates.

Border templates 

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Part 3 

Have fun people. Do finish up and send us pics of your awesome pieces to be featured in the QAL gallery soon. mail to desiquilters@gmail.com.

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Part 2

After the Introduction and Part 1 of the Foundation Piecing QAL, Nima's back with Part 2..

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Part 2 

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL- Part 1

Introduction here.

Templates for center piece 

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Part 1 

Nima's Foundation Piecing QAL - Introduction

We are extremely happy to have with us Nima, an extremely talented and sweet lady, always generous in sharing her ideas and knowledge. You can check out her blog, Made to Treasure, to see a sampling of her stitchery, crochet, quilting, etc. Nima will be taking us step by step thru the basics of Foundation Piecing, a skill that every quilter needs to have in her kitty. Over to Nima..

Welcome to the world of Foundation Piecing. It is one of the simple piecing techniques. We are going to use paper foundation for this machine-piecing project. I will upload the foundation design files soon, so that you can take a copy of it for your use.

Foundation papers are available in different brands. From my experience regular printer paper can also be used. The difference in the branded foundation paper is, it is transparent. I can relate it to the newspaper print papers that we can cheaply available in India. I remember my college days when I use that kind of paper for practicing maths.

Here I’m using regular tracing paper…it is transparent enough and I got it in A4 size for my printer. Or you can trace out the design to a tracing paper and use it as foundation paper.

The above picture is for illustration. It is a 13” foundation pieced block with a 1” mitered corner border and a 1.5” foundation pieced border. It will be a 18” block when you finish it. You can finish this as a single piece into a cushion cover, table topper or small wall hanging. If you have enough patience to work on more blocks, you can finish it into a table runner or even a bigger size quilt. I will help you to finish the block, and will help you to fix the mitered corner… You can decide what size you want to finish it. I would love to see you choose your own colors for your blocks…

Fabric Needed:

I have used five different colors other than black for this project. You can choose five colors or even less or more. I have used Batiks and self-tone fabrics…it is not necessary that you should use only bolds for this project…you can use your creative mind to use printed fabrics too. Choose your favorite combinations and keep the fabric and paper ready to start the project. I’ll upload the design file soon.

-Nima

Sudha's Chevron Tote QAL - Gallery

After another very successful Desi QAL, here's the gallery of finished totes and WIPs as we offer our thanks to the vivacious DQ Sudha for her amazing QAL (Part 1 & Part 2)

      Sudha

            

Vidya2











Vidya2

 Prasanna
Nima

 Uma

Gayathri
                                              

Tina    
                                           
 
                                          

Priya

 Uma

Medha

Nirmala

Aliya

Thank you Sudha !