A Standard Set Quilt From Teabags

This quilt was inspired from some NZ stencils a friend and work colleague gave me one Christmas. I decided to see how stencilling on the teabags would work. This time I used misty fuse and applied it to squares a bit bigger than the finished requirement. I then stencilled the images and added some machine details. The squares were then trimmed to size

When it came to joining the squares I decided to create the sashing from the foil side of coffee packets. I cut the coffee packets into strips and added some textured thread and net. Then I free machined down the strips to fix all layers together. I had used this technique in other projects on a smaller scale

Assembly of the quilt was quite traditional but it gave me another aspect of working with discarded materials Finally I quilted around the images and used a pebble free machine stitch to complete the quilt. I called it “Tea or Coffee, Jane”