More on the Blue Tea Party & kit

The" Blue Tea Party" is a quilt as you go colour wash & stitch pattern designed by Rosie Mac Q.

It is the first part of a set of seven patterns using tea & food as the themes. Each pattern has between 3/5 images with detailed instructions on all techniques.

The inspiration for this work came from:

A personal wish list of antique & vintage crockery

favorite recipes for cakes & scones

Collectible teapots

verses, poems & odd information about tea

visits to excellent cafes looking for more favorite recipes

Friends collections of tea ware & paraphernalia

A deeper understanding & appreciation of the history & culture of tea

Method of construction: 

Images traced onto calico, coloured using a simple wash of water based pigments & outlined with very basic stitchery. Each piece is then cut to hexagon shape & backed & bound with a matching cotton fabric. The hexagons are then assembled to make a gorgeous lap quilt or throw. Below are closeups of the finished & stitched hexagons

Words

These words are attributed to anon. They seemed so appropriate. It is the first half of the verse. The second part is on the next pattern.

Pattern 1......Child's teapot. Inspiration...1930's shelby teaset.

Pattern 2.....Plate of biscuits. Three biscuits. one topped with a cherry, one iced & sprinkled with hundreds & thousands & a chocolate one drizzled with strands of white chocolate.

More info on how to colour wash look at the previous blog.

Pattern 3....Tea cup. Inspiration.....Wedge wood circa 1980's

Kit

This is one of five hand painted kits with an extra stripey teacup ready to stitch.

Each kit comes with the full "Blue Tea Party " pattern.

They don't include the embroidery cottons.

They are available on my esty shop

You can email me : rosiemacq@teddyworks.com.au for extra information