Finally Finished

I started this mini quilt over the summer (apparently without a blog post)… finished the top in August…  mentioned it again in September… and that was as far as I got.

 

Armed with an (early) New Year’s resolution to sew more for myself and less out of obligation, I got back to it and finished it this week.

 

I’m not sure why I waited so long: I love this little quilt. It’s based on City Fair, for City Quilts by Cherry House, and the sun on the birch leaves outside my old office window. (I’ve moved offices since, but that’s another post for another time). By my count, it’s has ten different Kona solids.  I thought about hand quilting the whole thing with perl cotton (I found a pretty, variegated one in just the right mix of greens and yellows), but it was too much, visually. Instead, I did a few accent rows among the machine cross-hatching.

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Off the shelves

I made this quilt months ago, then liked it so much I couldn’t decide whether to put it in the shop, so it sat on a shelf in my studio, which is no place for a quilt.

I finally came back to it, and listed it. (Though, if it didn’t sell, I wouldn’t be too terribly upset to keep it)

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Pretty Quilt, Tired Brain

This quilt is finished. *yay*

I’ll come up with a post with words later, right now my brain is a bit fried (I work at a college, this is the first week of school, all is crazy, I  miss my Labor Day Weekend already) so, here are some pretty pictures.

(my favorite picture)

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Changing seasons

A sign of things to come:

That’s my quilt, back on my bed.

the room last spring with the quilt...

Earlier this summer, in the middle of a heat wave, I swapped it out for a light coverlet,

but a couple of days ago I bought apples at the farm stand, wished I had a jacket when I went to the store, and pulled out the quilt.  Fall is coming to New England.

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(pink orange squares)

Another finish – actually, this quilt has been finished for a while, but a full time job and a couple of days of gloomy weather have made getting photos tricky. I’ll still have to wait for a sunnier day to get one that shows the quilting well.

The patchwork was fun (though it took some figuring to place all those squares so I could assemble them reasonably) and the quilting ended up adding so much to the design.

And, this quilt’s now for sale in my shop

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Black and white and quilted all over…

I sent this quilt off to it’s new home…

With a little something extra, and a fun quilting pattern…

Stitch a bit,  turn 90 degrees, stitch a bit, turn 90 degrees. Repeat.

I don’t know that I’d do all that pivoting with a quilt, but it was alot of fun on a little project.

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Half Square Triangle Variations

I do love the versatility of half-square triangles…

Same colors, same blocks, three different arrangements.

(These aqua items are all in my shop)

And look at the pretty colors I get to work with next:

I’m making a custom HST quilt for someone and she picked these beautiful, warm colors.

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Tangent

I had two (and a half) projects in the works: one quilt that just needs a binding, one on the design wall (and the scraps from that quilt half-pieced into a matching pillow)

So, what project to work on? A totally unrelated pillow, of course.

But, I do like these Watercolors blocks.

This one’s in my etsy shop

And, I got the other quilt bound. Just, after I took a detour into pillow making.

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