Posted in Pillows, tagged finished, modern, patchwork, pillow, spring on March 23, 2011| 3 Comments »
After a breif moment of warm sun and spring, we’ve retreated back into cold, gray and rainy 5 inches of snow forecast *sigh* At least my pillow looks like spring.
Bee-mates may recognize the design: it’s a variation on one of the blocks my bee is trying out, while I polish them for prime time.
Posted in commissioned, Quilts, tagged commission, hst, quilt on March 18, 2011| 2 Comments »
In between working on my spirals , I’m working on a commission. Here’s the top, pre-quilting.
Commissions are always an interesting process, a mix of my decisions and the clients. This one is destined for a beach-y room – so there are sand dollars, scallop shells and sandpipers – in blue and yellow.
Posted in WorksInProgress, tagged spiral, work in progress, yellow on March 13, 2011| 4 Comments »
love, Love, LOVE!
The top of my spiral quilt is finished, I’m still in love. I need to get a backing together, then I’m sending it out to a long-arm quilter, this is just too big for my little machine.
And, I’m working on a version of this quilt as a pattern – my first.
Posted in designs, WorksInProgress, tagged eq on March 6, 2011| 1 Comment »
I recently bought Electric Quilt software – I’ve always been a pencil and paper (or fabric on the design wall) kind of quilter. But I’ve been playing more with design, and some (especially this one) could benefit from more sophisticated tools.
But this is not an intuitive software, and I’m still in that frustrating stage of learning a new system where my ambitions are way ahead of my abilities, so I’m playing with simple patterns while I learn my way around. At least the result is a little hourglass layout for a pretty stack of Verna that’s been looking for a project.
Do you use EQ? Any tips?
Posted in potholders, tagged finished, potholders on March 2, 2011| 1 Comment »
I’ve been particularly bad at generating UFO’s this winter.
Most of them are still decidedly unfinished, but I did get one tiny project off the list: a pair of potholders.
Granted, there’s still a bunch of these blocks half-pieced for a tablerunner, but I’m working on celebrating the small victories tonight.
These are destined for the shop
Posted in Gifts, trivet, tagged blue, dresdenplate, gift, trivet on February 24, 2011| 2 Comments »
I was sorting through the various piles in my sewing room, when I found these blocks. They’re extras from this tablerunner I made as a Christmas gift.
I didn’t really have a plan for them, but I had them, and I liked them, so it was a shame to leave them in a pile.
Finally I decided to stitch them up into trivets. I’ll gift them to my mother, once I get those thread tails taken care of.
Posted in commissioned, Pillows, tagged commission, pillow, watercolors on February 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
One project, three matching pillows
A commission, so much as I love this design, they’ll be heading for a new home soon.
Posted in Quilts, WorksInProgress, tagged logcabin, modern, quilt, spiral, work in progress, yellow on February 18, 2011| 5 Comments »
I have a stack of other projects demanding my attention, but I’m busily sewing spiral blocks instead. I’ve got a good stack now, and even though the (full size) quilt will be far bigger than my design wall, I’ve stuck some of the the blocks up there, pretty much just so that I can admire them.
I just love this quilt.
Posted in commissioned, Pillows, Quilts, tagged commission, hst, pillow, quikt, watercolors on February 15, 2011| 2 Comments »
Just a quick sneak peak of a pair of commissions:
A set of three pillows, in one of my favorite blocks. I’ve made pillows just like this before, and used the blocks in (lots of) other projects – including the quilt in my header, and I’m still always happy to see them come together from a humble stack of strips and straightforward construction.
And next up, a half square triangle quilt. Another favorite.
This is one of those designs that I keep coming back to (blue/green, pink/orange, aqua and there’s a red one, too, that didn’t make it to the blog)
What are the patterns, colors or techniques that you find yourself going back to time and again? ( Or are you always onto something new?)
Posted in block, Swaps & Bees, tagged bee, block, fresh modern bee II, improv piecing, yellow on February 12, 2011| 1 Comment »
I posted my sunny Dresden plate bee-block a while ago, but as I was looking at the pile of scraps and getting ready to send them back, I decided I wasn’t done with them. I’m just a little behind in posting pictures of the 2nd one.
After the precise, traditional piecing of the Dresden, I wanted something modern and improvised. So I went totally different and cut strips and a fussy cut, and made a scrappy-looking little snowball block.
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