![]() ![]() The daisy chain would begin in one corner and move down the quilt, branching as it went. I’d been planning this all the way through and had decided on free motion quilting with a sort of daisy chain. Having layered them I began pinning from the middle, moving outward an smoothing the quilt as I went. All three layers need to be lined up and perfectly smooth and flat. The ‘sandwich’ is when you layer the quilt top, the wadding and the backing together. The back was to be plain purple so I put together a row of blocks to add interest to the back. I did eventually get the hang of the sequencing and the blocks were put together in rows and the the rows joined. Even so ‘Tumbling Blocks’ did need concentration when it came to the piecing and there were some moments! I looked around for a pattern and found one in a back copy of ‘Love Patchwork and Quilting’ magazine. I’ve wanted to try the ‘Tumbling blocks’ pattern for a while, I love that ‘box’ illusion. It’s sometimes a bit of a risk buying on line but I have to say that now I have a range of reliable quality suppliers I buy from I never worry about it. It balances the other greens and lifts the whole pull. Something vital was missing though and when I found the green with white leaves online I knew that was it. I was rather surprised to find nothing suitable in my stash but then really pleased to find all but one of these fabrics in Aberdashery the wonderful shop right here in town. ![]() I was collating the fabrics for both quilts because it was inevitable that another lockdown was coming. I knew that there would be plenty of choice and after showing Nova an inspiration piece I had an idea of the tones and began the search. Once again I was given the freedom to choose the design with purple and green being the colour choices for this one. So this is the story of the second quilt ‘Tumbling Blocks’ so far. Jenny would say the curve evolves independently and is taking her on a journey rather than the other way around.Īfter this talk, you can judge for yourselves.Just yesterday I finished writing up the story of ‘ Football Fan’ and in it I wrote that Nova had asked for two quilts for her girls. It is also a story about the evolution of the curve and how this simple shape is picked up, experimented with and then either discarded (natural selection) or survives to become a building block for something (if Jenny has her way) more elaborate perhaps. Her life started in a 70s Sweden with rag rugs and hand-painted bark baskets, via London and a fashion industry that demands that you step on the orange, to a Yorkshire full of Drunkard’s Path quilts with holes and dowels. ![]() Jenny gives shape to curvy quilts and this is a fittingly meandering journey about Jenny’s development as a maker. When Jenny isn’t designing curvy and quirky quilts, she gives talks and workshops for Guilds and textile venues in the UK and abroad, counting her workshops at the Victoria &Albert Museum amongst her favorites. ![]() Jenny’s quilts and patterns have been published in numerous magazines and two of her quilts won awards at QuiltCon 2019 in Nashville. In 2017 the Victoria &Albert Museum, along with the publishers Thames & Hudson, asked her to contribute to the book ‘Patchwork & Quilting’. Jenny Haynes (née Nilsson) studied Pattern Cutting and Tailoring in Stockholm and Fashion and Textiles at the London College of Fashion before fully turning her attention to quilts under the name Papper, Sax, Sten. ![]()
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