I want to make quilts like Denyse Schmidt

I have a bad habit of being too interested in the world. It means I have horrendous lists of stuff that I want to do. Well I added another thing to that list…

I’ve never been into quilt making. Not to say that I didn’t like those pretty vintage French and Indian numbers that are often oh so very expensive but when I thought of quilt making as a hobby, I could only think of those horrible patchwork things. Needless to say that it really didn’t appeal.

Until I discovered Denyse Schmidt’s Quilts. They’re retro (but in a cool way) and simple. They also don’t look like they’d be stupidly hard and fiddly to make too.

This is one of my favourites:

It’s probably an obvious thing to most crafty people that you don’t have to use horrible combinations of chintzy fabrics to make a quilt, but I really was very blind to it.

It doesn’t help that it’s the beginning of the cold weather here (down South in Australia), but I have the worst hankering to make a quilt now. One of the local material stores have some rather tasty quilt fabrics including a lovely retro stripe that I think will do very nicely in strips with a dark blue or red fabric.

Though first on the to-do list will be to buy Denyse Schmidt’s Craft Book.