A Traveller’s Blanket

I am away at Ballarat, a notoriously chilly place in Winter. For the next few days I will be doing a course and living in at Ballarat Grammar School. Very well prepared for the cold with two quilts in addition to the blankets provided.

The quilt on top, A traveller’s Blanket was made a few years ago in a class with Dijanne  Cevaal.  In the class we dyed the muslin top, backing and the flanelette middle layer aqua and then overdyed the folded top by dipping it in to black. The squares are patches of embroidered fabrics which I then stitched onto the top. Once the patches were on I was able to quilt around the blocks with more embroidery thread.

Here is another view. The patches were roughly cut squares from my fabric stash. The following pictures are close ups of some of the embroidered squares.

I really enjoyed making this quilt, particularly the free stitching of all the patches. They were a very portable project and could easily picked up, put down and worked on whenever time and occasion were possible.