Design Wall Monday

For the first time in weeks and weeks I have something new on my design wall. This pattern I saw in a magazine a few years ago. It's is simply 1" finished squares arranged in diamonds. None of the squares are sewn together in this photo so this is going to shrink a lot. I don't have enough room to lay this out completely so late last night I started sewing it together. The instructions call for sewing it together row by row but I've decided to do it by 9 patches so I can sew as I go. Hopefully this will end up bed size but that depends on if I have enough of the red squares.

2010 BOM

Here is The February block of our 2010 BOM, King Tut's Crown.

Design Wall Monday

Here's what's on my design wall today. I started this quilt last March (yikes!). The only thing left to do is the borders and quilting. I put it aside for a while because I couldn't decide on green or purple for the sashing. Since I chose purple I will put green on the back.

This is a scrappy Irish Chain quilt I just finished quilting. I used a ruler to quilt diagonal lines on my longarm for the first time. The beginning is a mess but by the end I could see a definite improvement in my quilting.

The last time I showed this quilt it was just a top. I quilted it with an all-over butterfly pattern from Willow Tree Studio. I even hand-sewed the binding. I usually do binding all by machine but I felt this quilt deserved something special.

Design Wall Monday

Here's my progress on my Tamara's 2009 BOM. This is the lower right corner. I am almost finished but I had to dye more fabric yesterday afternoon. I ran out of yellow, pink and light green for the sashing. I would have finished without those colors but then this whole corner would have been orange, teal and blue only. Not very random, which is the look I am going for.

Ruby

For those who haven't seen her, this is my "new" longarm. New to me, that is. She is about 5 years old. Becca named her Ruby Rhod, after the Chris Tucker character in the Fifth Element. She is "super green". Follow this link to a photo of the quilt I am working on.

Happy New Year!

Here's the first block of our 2010 BOM using Drunkard's Path variations. This block finished at 16". I will be using fabric I dyed myself on Christmas day. Joann suggested that I use some leftover hand dyed faric but I didn't have enough so I made some more. I dyed 1/2 yards in a rainbow of 12 colors. I have 4 yards of PFD fabric left for the white background. I was planning on creating pastels but I miscalculated the amount of dye to use. I think this is better as the more vibrant color stands out better against the white. Each block will be a different color and I'll have enough leftover for sashing or borders. The colored portions of each block use 1/4 yard or less.

Tamara's 2009 BOM

Here are all the blocks finished. I remade one block that was too dark and subsituted another for a block I didn't like. I'm working on some fancy sashing using the leftovers. This fabric I hand dyed a couple of years ago and was waiting for an inspirational project to use it.