Yesterday I made forty 6″ string blocks, and I am in love with the colors. No, I can’t tell a difference in my string baskets. What is up with that? but I like to sew string blocks, and I always feel I’ve created something from nothing. I’m sashing them with Kona White, and using this nice gray and white Kaufman leaf print for the borders. This will make a throw size, 50″ x 74″.
Are you playing with fabric today?
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On my design wall I have the orphan blocks and taupey fabric I to use to piece the back to the blue and orange donation quilt. I see one of the larger ones needs to be turned. Returning to this after time off makes it a little better, though backings are still not my favorite.
On Saturday I finished the aqua and gray HST baby quilt, and it makes me very happy. I really enjoyed doing the quilting on it.
The gray zigzags and the print feathers have an extra layer of batting under them for a gentle trapunto effect.
The back is gray, white, and yellow. The gray and yellow look brown in photos, but in person it’s a good match to the front.
This quilt is 36″ x 42″, my favorite baby size, made from 168 3″ blocks.
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I’m working today on this baby quilt using a very intense print that appears as a textured hand-dye. The other fabrics are a gray with white dots and a white with gray dots. I’m definitely still turning the blocks to decide where the “spikes” of color should go. This will get diagonal straight line quilting. Then I’m binding it with the bright print.
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I got on board with this late, but I decided to send a flag to Boston for the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild’s initiative, To Boston With Love. I don’t belong to a guild, and their project was aimed mainly at guilds sending in bunches of these flags, but individuals can participate. I didn’t really understand the concept when it first came around, but now I think it will be a spectacular sight, and I’d like to contribute. I really wish I had gotten in gear earlier, because I would have coordinated a group effort from our “Twilter” group of quilters on Twitter, and sent those in as a group. Anyway.
Yes, that’s a reject piece from my fabric bleaching. I don’t have it arranged correctly yet, but I think it will make a fine background for my rainbow heart. And, yes, that’s a strip of orange “Fairy Frost” in there. You can’t get more cheerful than that. This will only take me a few minutes when I sit down and get serious about it. Lots of color for a little time.
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There is really nothing on my design wall, because I have a queen sized backing I need to make today… But if there were, it would be this. I totally love this rose fabric, and have been hoarding saving it for something special. Now I’m thinking about using it for a baby quilt for the impending (August) great niece. I just happen to also have these fabrics in stash: Kona cream, Basic Grey Grunge, and something called Krystal from Michael Miller.
Here are a couple of options I’m playing around with (if I were spending time on this). The plain sashing mimics Elephant a little more, but I really like the print sashing (which would not look purply like this, much more pink). I’m thinking. What do you think?
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I’m using the Sultry fabric scraps to make this baby quilt. It could go to my future niece ( just learned the twins babies coming will be a girl and a boy, great niece and great nephew!), but probably just for my Etsy shop.
The neutrals are Kona Snow and Basic Grey Grunge. The green has nothing on the selvage, from JoAnn, I guess.
What are you working on?
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Last spring I gathered a jelly roll of “Nicey Jane”, a few stash fabrics, and lots of Kona “Bluebell” to make a queen sized quilt for our bedroom.
I designed it on EQ7. Since I hate to quilt huge quilts, I planned it to be made in two pieces and put together when nearly finished. I got the first half of it together, then ran out of Bluebell. While waiting for more to arrive, I guess summer intervened and this went to the back burner. Way back. I put it on my March “Getting it Done” list, so I dug it out to finish.
So hard to figure out what you were doing on a stone cold quilt! I had to remake a couple of blocks, but they’re all together now, so I just have to add the borders. I am not completely happy about the borders. They are all cut, and they will look nice with my green bed. Probably they will be fine.
Here’s the view from my studio this morning. It’s very beautiful, but it’s time for spring. Birds keep stopping by my dogwood tree. I think they are looking for nesting sites. It would be nice to sew with a family outside my window.
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I finished the quilt top made from a broken layer cake of Moda’s Basic Grey “Sultry” plus some pink (Candy?) and Azure Kona. The border has some Kona Snow, some Grunge, some kind of white-on-white from my stash and Sultry yardage. This is honestly the only layer cake I’ve ever bought (in 2010), and I’m not in a hurry to buy more. It was irresistibly beautiful in the shop, but really there are just too many prints and colorways to look good in most quilts. There are some funky little 4-patch units in here left from my first attempt to use this fabric. I have no idea where I was going with that, but I stuck them in here. This came from a shop called Threadbear in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was a really great shop with tons of modern fabric, and I remember spending a lot of money there. Unfortunately, I don’t find any information for them past 2011, so I’m afraid my purchases weren’t enough to keep them afloat. Does anyone have any info about Threadbear?
Here are fabrics I auditioned for binding. I chose this aqua and brown Alexander Henry print. Wow, is it ever finely wovern and crisp! Fun to work with, and I have just enough.
I don’t usually mark the quilting design before I sandwich, but I felt like it this time. I’ve really written all over this. Thank goodness for Crayola Washable Markers.
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Here are my blocks for a low-volume baby quilt in a blue-yellow-white colorway. There isn’t really as much contrast as the photo shows, but the medium blue does stand out.
This is SO much lighter and calmer than my usual pallette that I thought it was low volume, but I don’t think I’m there. I felt I had to have some contrast for interest. I’m going to try again on a different quilt, but I so like this one, so I’m keeping it.
Spring is coming. This handsome bird came and sang for a long time in the dogwood outside my studio window yesterday.
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Using strings to make some Springtime pillow covers for living room pillows. Yes, they look a lot like the Christmas ones in different colors, but I really like those. So much so that they are still on the pillows…my last vestige of Christmas. Also, my strings continue to overflow their containers. I can’t tell the difference after pulling the strings for these six covers, but it has to be helping.
Doesn’t it?
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Evening in the Garden Quilts 