Design Wall Monday

This is the first new project in quite a while. I'm making this quilt for a friend who lost her home in a fire last year. The pattern is based on an antique quilt shown in the February 2013 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. The original quilt was done in yellow and white. When I look at the photos, I see overlapping squares. I never do anything the easy way so I'll be making each square with different fabric.

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Design Wall Monday

I haven't posted in a while. July through September is the busiest time of the year at my day job so I haven't been doing much quilting. I did finish this one though. It's a gift for my mother-in-law's sister, who celebrates her 90th birthday this month. I finished the blocks and put them together at the Ranch Hand's quilt retreat two weeks ago. The pattern is called Patches and Pinwheels and is from Bonnie Hunter's website, www.quiltville.com. Here a link to it.

And a closeup, to show the wonderful striped binding fabric I found for it.

I used wool batting and quilted it with Superior Omni thread in a pattern called Verdant. I have fallen in love with wool batting! I don't know how it's processed but it doesn't felt or beard. It's also light and fluffy, much lighter then cotton, which is great for large quilts.

I had a lot of big things happen in my life this summer, some great, some not so great. I cut my finger pretty bad with a rotary cutter, entered a quilt in my local fair and won Best of Show (large quilts), was in a car accident, my daughter got engaged, my dogs got skunked, and I went to Oregon to take a class with Bonnie Hunter! I will post more details later but I'll say now that my finger healed and I wasn't seriously injured in the accident.

Design Wall Monday

I haven't posted in a few weeks as there has been nothing new on the wall. I have been working on finishing quilts to show at the local fair which starts Wednesday. Last week I decided to take this week off and work on finishing some projects and cleaning up my quilt studio. It's so messy and distracting I can't concentrate on anything!

The first thing I worked on was finishing the Funky Wrench quilt. I first blogged about it here. I counted up all my cut pieces and realised I could make one large quilt or three baby quilts. The fabric seems better suited for baby quilts so this is the third and last pictured.

I really like this pattern but I changed the construction to make the blocks by quarters so I would have more design options. Since these quilts are a combination of donated fabrics and my own, I will keep one and donate the other two.

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Design Wall Monday

Actually, it's the design floor today. I spent all day Saturday and half of Sunday putting my Easy Street blocks together. Then I made a quick trip to the LQS for border fabric. I'm doing a small orange border then a larger blue-violet border. My daughter talked me into showing this at the county fair this summer so I have to get it done. For more design walls, check out Judy's blog, www.patchworktimes.com.

Design Wall Monday

So I'm a day late. Better late than never! I didn't get very far on Easy Street at the retreat and it was the only thing I worked on. I do have all the blocks made and I only have to lay it out and sew the rows together. I'm thinking of a narrow orange border and a wider purple border. I will have to buy fabric as I don't have any pieces in my stash that are big enough.

Design Wall Monday...

coming to you from the Ranch Hands Retreat! I almost forgot it was Monday. I'm making Bonnie Hunter's latest mystery, Easy Street. I got the centers of all the blocks done, a small pile of four patches and cut up the purple geese. Tomorrow I will work on the piecing the geese and adding the outside edges of the blocks. Then on to the setting triangles and if all goes well, I will have the blocks set together before we leave for home on Thursday. Hopefully I have enough purple yardage at home for the borders.

Judy's UFO Parade

This is a long post, so you've been warned. Tomorrow, Judy of Patchwork Times is hosting a UFO Parade. It's a simple idea, link to a post of all your UFO's. Hopefully this will help me get motivated to finish some!

Jacks on Six

Needs to be quilted and bound. This is a pattern from Bonnie Hunter's website.

2006 Quilted Angel BOM

All the blocks are finished. I got stuck on the pieced setting triangles. Maybe I should draw them out in EQ now that I have learned how to use it.

2009 BOM

The top is finished, all it needs is custom quilting. Until recently, I didn't feel like I had the skill to do it justice. Maybe this year...

 

2010 BOM Drunkard's Path Variations

 

This was a BOM I created for my friends to help us get over our fear of curves. We ran out of steam about half way through. I want to finish it because I hand dyed fabric especially for it.

 

Antique Postage Stamp 

 I'm not sure I should count this one. It's an on going project. The squares finish at 1". It takes me about an hour to sew a 8 x 8 section and another hour for picking colors and prepping fabric.

 

Bali Stars

This is fussy cut 6-pointed stars made with batik sarongs my mother bought me in Bali. Just needs to be quilted and bound.

 

Buffalo Ridge

 

Needs to have the quilting ripped out and redone. Tension problems.

 

Buffalo Jewels

I liked the colors of Buffalo Ridge so much I decided to do it again with a few changes. I was ready to slap on some borders when my daughter said it deserved something better. So pieced borders it is. I just need an idea.....

 

Carpenter's Square (Green Quilt #5)

Needs borders and quilting.

 

Circles

I started this in Houston in 2007. I took a class called "Cure Curve Phobia". I was so excited about the class I bought the fabric at lunch and started this. After taking a Thom Atkins beading class I decided this should have beads. Needs to be quilted first.

 

Funky Wrench

I loved this pattern and had to try it. It might be finished. Maybe I should make a baby quilt out of it.

 

Giraffe

I made this in a Nancy Brown applique class. It needs to be hand quilted. I need to find someone to teach me.

 

Gordian Knot

I have three of these, all slightly different. Two have had the outline quilting finished. One needs to be fixed. The bands don't line up and it's obvious. Then I need to plan the rest of the quilting.

 

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Just needs a few more flowers and quilting.

 

Hand-dyed Log Cabin

I dyed the fabric in a class. The log cabin is one of Judy Martin's, with stars in the corner. After starting I realised that my 1/4" foot was actually making wider seams. So the stars don't match. I need to decide how to fix it.

 

Jan Sassaman Quilt

I made this in a workshop with Jane Sassaman. Do I want to finish it? I don't know. I'm going to think about it.

 

Kaffe's Arrowhead

I made a baby quilt with Anita Grossman Solomon's pattern "Anita's Arrowhead". I loved her instructions so much I started this. It's early Kaffe Fassett prints and shot cottons. The top is finished, just needs quilting. I want to get this quilted in time for the local quilt show in June.

 

Kaffe's Waffles

I made this with the leftover fabric from the above quilt. Needs quilting.

 

Keryn's Stars

I started this to use up 2 1/2" scraps.

 

Limelight

This is a pattern from one of Pat Speth's books. Some of the blocks are made.

 

Making Ends Meet II, civil war style

The top is finished just needs quilting. I actually had the back pinned on my longarm when I discovered that is was smaller than the top. Ugh!

 

Making Ends Meet I

This is on the longarm right now!

 

Millwheel (green quilt #7)

I have a lot of blocks made, just needs to be put together.

 

Minny Muu

A cute pattern I saw on the Happy Zombie blog. It's the same polka dot fabric as Funky Wrench.

 

Petaluma Quilt Guild Challenge 2011

Needs to be quilted and I think beading, too.

 

Scrappy Irish Chain II

The photo is not the actuall quilt but another I made with same pattern. I made this to practise feathered wreath quilting for another, larger quilt in the same pattern. Some of the quilting is finished. Then I took it off the logarm to work on something else.

 

Scrappy Irish Chain III

This is the quilt I need to practise feathered wreaths for. Then I discovered I made it too big. I need to remove two rows of blocks before quilting.

 

Star of Istanbul

This is a long-term project, my next show quilt hopefully. My goal is to have it finished by January 2015 for the SF quilt guild show.

 

Tiny Hexagons

These are 1/2". It's about the size of a candle mat. I am thinking of tying is since it's so small.

 

Twist and Twirl

Just needs the binding!

 

So that's all the personal projects I need to finish. This doesn't include the charity quilts (23) or customer quilts (5).