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My quilting endeavours over the last couple of weeks:
The Colour Of Magic
Came out of a batik fat quarter set I bought on Ebay a while back. Added a couple of solids and it works quite well, I think!
I've started piecing the backs for my quilts. Heaven knows why, because plain cotton sheets have done perfectly well so far! But I've started and now I've let the genie out of the bottle and the damn thing refuses to go back:
Looking at the green leaf pattern on the far side of the photo? I regret using that fat quarter. Would have made lovely blocks for another project. This is the downside of piecing backs!
fabric acquisition
Joe Dewberry's Aviary II series in Granite and Canary
Not sure what I'm going to use it all for, but I'll think of something. They'll definitely get used together, because they match so very nicely!
And since now is the time of Autumn Sales from all the US fabric shops, I have given in a couple of times to fabric purchases:
What? What? I'll use them! I will! Sooner or later...and probably later rather than sooner...
Quilting For Kids project
I joined a project that's putting together some quilts for a couple of girls in foster care. You make a couple of specific blocks in specific colours and send them off to the organiser. The colour scheme was pinks and purples.
The design is very simple and yet very effective - and I liked it so much that I decided to use it for my Mum's quilt, which has now acquired the name Imperial Stars, or, since I rather enjoy my geekiness: "Mum's Impstar".
Mum's Impstar Quilt
I started cutting out the pieces and discovered I had to order more fabric for this project. Drat fat quarter sets never have enough!
Then I got bored with waiting for the fabric to turn up and started piecing the stars:
There'll be sashing between, and possibly corner blocks if I can persuade my measurements to behave. We'll see. But I think that the design allows both the material and the pattern to shine, which is a good thing! I showed the basics to mum and I think she likes it. :)
Gothic Summer Sampler
The story so far:
I'm a sucker for punishment, so I'm making this a 4x4 quilt, of about 50"x50". And I'll be doing the quilting myself. Probably. :/
Harvest
I was going to do a Scrappy Mountain Majesty on these fabrics...then it occurred to me that the fabric is medium-sized prints which really shouldn't be hung, drawn, and quartered quite so viciously as they will in the Scrappy Mountain Majesty pattern.
So I have these squares and I'm stuck. A possibility is the Hourglass block? That shouldn't be too small, should it?
The Funny Story Of The Back That Went Into The Quilters A Back and Turned Into A Top
Took a trip to the quilter's yesterday to pick up three quilts and drop three more off.
The three I dropped off turned into four - somewhat unexpectedly.
1. The Colour Of Magic (seen above).
2. The Sanctuary Kaleidoscope:
And the back I pieced for it:
3. Central Park Boxes:
And the back I pieced for it...which turned into a quilt top of its own right!
I don't have a name for it yet - got any suggestions?
three quilts to bind
The three quilts I got back from the quilter!
The Supernova (white with starburst pattern), the Modern Rail fence (red, white, and blue), and the Batik Postage Stamp (squares - lots of little squares) - all now in need of binding. I'll show them off when they're bound and finished. It should be much easier now that I have quilting cronies...
These three quilts form the start of my 'quilt cache' - quilts I made without a specific recipient in mind. I'm still debating whether to gift them or sell them. My instinct is to gift them, because that's what I've always done with my quilts, but my friend thinks I should sell them, because they're in the realm of at least $350-$400 a quilt when you add up fabric and hours worked and so forth - not a gift to be given lightly!
It's something to think about while I bind them, anyway.
The Colour Of Magic
Came out of a batik fat quarter set I bought on Ebay a while back. Added a couple of solids and it works quite well, I think!
I've started piecing the backs for my quilts. Heaven knows why, because plain cotton sheets have done perfectly well so far! But I've started and now I've let the genie out of the bottle and the damn thing refuses to go back:
Looking at the green leaf pattern on the far side of the photo? I regret using that fat quarter. Would have made lovely blocks for another project. This is the downside of piecing backs!
fabric acquisition
Joe Dewberry's Aviary II series in Granite and Canary
Not sure what I'm going to use it all for, but I'll think of something. They'll definitely get used together, because they match so very nicely!
And since now is the time of Autumn Sales from all the US fabric shops, I have given in a couple of times to fabric purchases:
What? What? I'll use them! I will! Sooner or later...and probably later rather than sooner...
Quilting For Kids project
I joined a project that's putting together some quilts for a couple of girls in foster care. You make a couple of specific blocks in specific colours and send them off to the organiser. The colour scheme was pinks and purples.
The design is very simple and yet very effective - and I liked it so much that I decided to use it for my Mum's quilt, which has now acquired the name Imperial Stars, or, since I rather enjoy my geekiness: "Mum's Impstar".
Mum's Impstar Quilt
I started cutting out the pieces and discovered I had to order more fabric for this project. Drat fat quarter sets never have enough!
Then I got bored with waiting for the fabric to turn up and started piecing the stars:
There'll be sashing between, and possibly corner blocks if I can persuade my measurements to behave. We'll see. But I think that the design allows both the material and the pattern to shine, which is a good thing! I showed the basics to mum and I think she likes it. :)
Gothic Summer Sampler
The story so far:
I'm a sucker for punishment, so I'm making this a 4x4 quilt, of about 50"x50". And I'll be doing the quilting myself. Probably. :/
Harvest
I was going to do a Scrappy Mountain Majesty on these fabrics...then it occurred to me that the fabric is medium-sized prints which really shouldn't be hung, drawn, and quartered quite so viciously as they will in the Scrappy Mountain Majesty pattern.
So I have these squares and I'm stuck. A possibility is the Hourglass block? That shouldn't be too small, should it?
The Funny Story Of The Back That Went Into The Quilters A Back and Turned Into A Top
Took a trip to the quilter's yesterday to pick up three quilts and drop three more off.
The three I dropped off turned into four - somewhat unexpectedly.
1. The Colour Of Magic (seen above).
2. The Sanctuary Kaleidoscope:
And the back I pieced for it:
3. Central Park Boxes:
And the back I pieced for it...which turned into a quilt top of its own right!
I don't have a name for it yet - got any suggestions?
three quilts to bind
The three quilts I got back from the quilter!
The Supernova (white with starburst pattern), the Modern Rail fence (red, white, and blue), and the Batik Postage Stamp (squares - lots of little squares) - all now in need of binding. I'll show them off when they're bound and finished. It should be much easier now that I have quilting cronies...
These three quilts form the start of my 'quilt cache' - quilts I made without a specific recipient in mind. I'm still debating whether to gift them or sell them. My instinct is to gift them, because that's what I've always done with my quilts, but my friend thinks I should sell them, because they're in the realm of at least $350-$400 a quilt when you add up fabric and hours worked and so forth - not a gift to be given lightly!
It's something to think about while I bind them, anyway.
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