Tagged: Gothic arch

Sunday sketch #433

Last month, I attended the European Patchwork Meeting in France with Tara Glastonbury (read her blog post all about it). Tara took her ‘In Conversation’ exhibition there, and it was a great success. I got to listen to Tara’s talk about the quilts each morning, chat to attendees, promote Aussie quilting/quilters, meet people who know my Sunday sketches (so cool!), and see other quilts on show in some of the four French towns that make up this annual patchwork meeting. Not to mention practice my bad French and eat lots of cheese 🙂 Oh, and I caught up with Daisy Aschehoug and snagged some of her new Gothic arch templates, too. It was a great trip!

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Sunday sketch #423

I never stop learning new things in quilting! Earlier this year, I saw a new-to-me shape on the Instagram feed of Daisy Aschehoug (WarmFolk) – she’d been playing with it and wondered if it had a name. Other people commented that it’s called a bishop’s hat or cathedral window block (not to be confused with the cathedral window technique), or a cathedral arch or gothic arch. Or it could just be described as a double-cut drunkard’s path. Daisy’s been creating some really fun designs with it – see here and my favourite here.

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