Iessie’s tele quilt

Local teacher, Iessie Steenberg, decided to keep quilters, who love their group meetings and classes, sane during the pandemic by offering what she calls tele-quilts.

You ask her to add your phone number to the WhatsApp group she started and then once a month she’ll share a block/technique and leaves it up to you.

You can then decide to just make one block for your reference file, make a couple as a cushion cover or runner or go on and make a full quilt.

The instructions to these are extremely clear and well explained with a picture followed by a voice note and the best of all it is FREE.

I only found out about the group long after the worst of the lockdown was over but decided to tackle the first technique I received.  I’ve made several quilts similar to this, only using more strips per block, so this one will have a different look from what I made in the past.

She only used two colours and basically sub-cut squares whereas I decided to use jelly rolls and more colours instead.

I thought of making a bed quilt but when I saw how busy this was going to turn out, opted to stop at a table runner.