Monday Morning Design Wall 10/11/2010

After working one of my longest weeks ever, spending 13 hours at work on Friday, working more on Saturday and for 7 hours on Sunday, I still managed to finish off one quilt top and start another!! The borders on the pinwheel quilt were simple so they did not take much time and I am looking forward to handquilting them with a beautiful feather. The beautiful batik square quilt is all ready to be sewn into blocks (some are done and on the wall) but the rest have to be sewn. This is a kit I purchased at a wonderful little quilt shop in a small country town in northern Illinois called Touch of Amish when I visted the area in August. Lovely shop!! The owner designed her own BOM with representations of each state. Would have loved to have joined but the commute would kill me!!

Monday Morning Design Wall 10/4/2010

Pinwheels, pinwheels, pinwheels. I had a Moda Layer Cake in these colors and decided to branch out from my normal batiks and do something different. I will use red and white for the rails and corner stone blocks with a nice red border!!I love the way these seem to move!

Monday Design Wall 9/28/2010

Another week and another small sampler made from my cutting down of my larger quilt. This one is a bit more green but still looks pretty good! I am working on finishing up a few projects that I need to quilt/reorganize so I can free up my space and mind to do some designing in the near future. Happy Monday! The top picture is the entire larger quilt that I cut the smaller sampler from!

Making Changes

I made a huge quilt, using this design but when I was finished the quilt was out of proportion. The quilt was far longer then it was wider and I just could not move past this issue!! After my daughter requested that I work on this quilt over the summer I finally got around to removing a bit of the quilt and used my sections removed to make a wall hanging, so far just one, but I will be making another one for my daughter, as this is one of her favorite quilts!! My motto: Never let anything go to waste!

Monday Morning 9/6/2010

I posted on Sunday evening but discovered nothing had posted on Tuesday. Here is my current project, my Dresden Plate quilt that I spent the entire month working on. I have had a blast and am looking foward to finishing it up sometime this week!!

Monday Morning Share 8.9.2010

Spent my weekend finishing up two projects! I am always amazed how long it take to get the border on a quilt and I really wanted these to be mitered borders so they took a bit more time!! I love the look of my purple circle and I can't wait to try the Red/Black/White Convergence Quilt pattern but make something completely different with a bit more slicing and dicing. I also began a Dresden Plate pattern after I found out how easy it really is so it fills my need for a take-along hand project. I made my own template and it turned out great. Now I have a chance to use up my bags of scraps as I am working on both a English Paper Piecing hexigon quilt and the Dresden Plate.

Another Week - Another Quilt

This is the convergence quilt, again from the Ricky Timms/Alex Anderson seminar I attended in June 2010. This was so simple and quick that I put it together in just a couple of hours, which freed me up to make headway into my current hand quilting project!! The colors were chosen by my daughter to fit the decorating idea of her room mate for next year but since I purchased the fabric the decorating ideas have changed. Oh, well, I guess I will just keep it myself. The sacrifices I am willing to make!!