Next Project

Working on our next project, the Bento Box… Here’s my sneak peek!

Red Blocks

These blocks are my test blocks… The funny thing is that I was testing the darker fabric choice (blue) to see if the large print would work… but discovered that the ‘directional’ was actually more bothersome.

 

Bento Box quilt block

Anyone interested can find good instructions on the  Sunshine Quilters website, March 2006.

Valentine Bargello Workshop

Here are the quilts we made at the workshop we took at Cock-a-doodle Quilts -

After spending the last four days in pain with a wrenched back, I have finally started working on getting the borders on this quilt.  I wish the workshop had been just a little longer so we could have had time to get the border batting attached.  I don’t think I stitched the first small border on correctly and I had to unstitch the ends to get the batting in properly.  Anyone else have their borders finished yet?

Tulips

This is a picture of my still life that I made from Marilyn Clarke’s workshop last Saturday. It was a great class and would recommend it to anyone. Lot’s of fun and learned a lot.

Tulips

Minature Project

The mini quilts are finished, now they just need to be put together.

Completed on March 15th.

It didn’t hurt… too bad.

Okay, I’ll admit that it was NOT as bad as I had feared. After completing the test leaf (Thanks to Sheree!) and one other ‘practice’ I knew what to expect and it was kinda fun. Now, the only thing I’m worried about is the thread colour. I thought of doing red, like the border… but opted for shiny rayon.

Alder Leaf

Inspired by Leaf Magic Little Quilt, by Janet Rice-Bredin.

Alder Label

Alder

These are my final fabric choices. Even though the Alder leaf doesn’t really have an autumn colour I’ve seen yellow floating in a stream. Hopefully artistic license is allowed. So, here goes!

Alder

Also, I thought I’d share my test leaf since I’m not sure about this “thread art” thingy…

Test Block

Don’t mind the puckering. The tension is fine for steam-a-seam leaf area. Might try a test stem with steam-a-seam.

Ginko Leaf

These are the fabrics that I’m using for my ginko leaf. It will help Traceyann choose her fabrics.

Miniature Quilt Project

Here are the fabrics from the kit I bought for the little leaf quilts -

Little Quilt kit fabrics

I like the background fabric, it looks like tree trunks.  Hey, Kate – I like your fabrics but you labelled the turquoise fabric as ‘leaf’.  Did you mean ‘border’?  With a yellow leaf?  If we get all the photo for our fabrics up, we can create a virtual design wall for this little project!

We’re Still Here

You’d think we weren’t up to anything quilty … It has been way too long since our last posting!

It’s about time to catch up on our latest activities. Late September things got busy on the quilting front. With general guild meetings, quilt show meetings, and the CreativFestival I haven’t had a second to think about blogging.

So, our latest is a group project to create a miniature for the upcoming Quilt Show, in May. That means I’ve gotta get quilting. This makes four projects on the go.

I’ve got some colour choices for my block. What do you think of this choice?

Baby quilt for my niece

One of my summer projects almost finished.  Just need to decide on how I want to machine quilt it.  I am thinking of trying out the new bamboo batting.  Has anyone tried it yet? The bias rectangles gave me some grief and I had to go out and buy new fabric because I was not happy with the results.  On a trip to Shakespeare I found a birangle ruler that made the job go a lot easier.  Now I’m looking for a way to make the bias rectangles with no seam in the middle to eliminate some of the bulk.  Some research and I have found that Elanore Burns has a ruler that allows you to make a triangle in the middle and taking a rectangle and cutting it from one corner kitty corner to the other.  When put it together you can trim up the block to the size you need.  I can’t believe I’m thinking of needing another ruler, but I have fabric to make this same pattern in a queen size!

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