Guest Blogger September 2016



I sure hope everyone is enjoying their summer. We have another great guest blogger today....

  

Hi everyone! I am Katy Devlin, known online as LethargicLass(lethargiclass.blogspot.ca/), and I live in our beautiful nation's capital. I started quilting six years ago as something to do when I quit smoking and haven't looked back since. I am one of the founding members of the Ottawa Modern Quilt Guild and I am so proud to be able to say that. Our guild has provided friendships and opportunities that wouldn't have happened otherwise. For instance, I now do a lot of sewing of quilt tops for Libs Elliott and even made one for her that was at Quilt Market! 

 I also am going to be having my first pattern published in Make Modern in December. 

I do a lot of behind the scenes pattern testing for people and I am the proofreader for several pattern designers.

Q&A:

   1.What do you love about  (Modern) quilting?

I love that it is still evolving and new ideas  are coming out of people's incredibly creative minds every day.

    

  2. Where do you draw inspiration?

I draw inspiration from many other quilters and social media as most of us do. I also have 8 graph paper notebooks on the go where I sketch every idea that comes to me. Sometimes it is just enough to get them on paper, sometimes I tweak them constantly and sometimes I end up making them.

   3. What are you currently working on? (Can we have a sneak peek?)

Right now I am working on a mini for a friend of mine whom I am meeting up with at a retreat in a week or so. The pattern comes from McCall's Quilting and is by Amy Gibson, it is called Apple Blossom. This the first sewing I have done for myself for awhile as we made quilts for refugees, then I had Quilt Market sewing and now we are doing quilts for the Fort Mac evacuees.

   
4. Solids or Prints?

Both! I love scrappy with prints and organised with solids.

   5. Precuts or Stash?

Neither! More new fabric :) Actually, I have been trying to use stash more as mine is enormous.

   6. Favorite Tool/Trick you can’t live without?

I love glue basting! I use it for zippers, binding, hemming, EPP, everything. I use both liquid and stick depending on the project.

  

 7. What’s your Favorite Blog and/or Designer?

 My favourite blog is http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.ca/ Her makes are always very cheerful, and like me she likes to work with tiny pieces.  My favourite designer for fabrics is http://www.dsquilts.com/ and for patterns http://jenkingwelldesigns.blogspot.ca/.

   8. What’s one thing we should know about you?

 I love dachshunds!! I am forever coming up with new ideas on how to use them in everything lol.