These were finished in November for a show. Yes, two in a week was lots of work for me. I’ve been busy working on lots of other projects to get these out into the world.
This would be a great quilt for a nursery.
Yesterday during the last Sunday of regular season football I was able to get three quilts cut and ready to be pieced. Let’s hope I can get one finished this week and my 2011 project block.
A few months ago I wrote about the fabric that I picked up in NYC. Here is what was inspired.
Colors are black, white and green.
The backing fabric is from the fabric district in NYC. Saw it and fell in love. Designed the quilt while on the train to Coney Island on the 4th of July.
Fabric from the NYC fabric district.
Here’s to hoping this new quilt finds a loving home.
I have been thinking about where I could take this blog over the next year and still develop myself as a quilter. I’ve been asking for input from my quilting friends as well.
So here it is…TRIANGLES!
I am terrified of this shape.
Yes, those three sided objects scare the sewing right out of me. Look and what I’ve posted on here in the past folks, rectangles, squares, and some cirlces in applique.
So here’s what I’m going to do throughout 2011:
Here are the color scheme I am thinking:
Red, white and black.
I am researching quilt blocks to use and work on the dreaded triangles.
Christmas has come and gone. What is your reflection of this year? Mine was very different from the past years. The husband and I agreed to no gifts especially since we just did the cruise. Our friends adopted a family from the United Christmas Service here in Indianapolis. We offered to help them adopt this family and were assigned to the 4 year old boy. Toys, clothes, and shoes were on his wish list. I had to keep the hubby out of the toy section. Feedback from our friend says they were very grateful for the gifts. Looking forward to doing this again.
My mother-in-law is the best. She reads my blog regularly and fully supports my creative side. She even went to a couple of quilt shops with me in October. The gift is very simple but exactly what I need.
After reading about my 2011 Project she had an idea for a gift. I absolutely loved it. I am in trouble that I opened the box early, but this was worth it. Good thing, I ran out of black thread last night.
Thread to match the colors of the 2011 Project.
So I asked my Facebook friends what their gift of the season was. Here are some of their responses:
Terrie – “A healthy husband!”
Chris – “A shake weight” Fun considering what his profession is.
Joan – “Kool-Aid dyed yarn from my grandson”
Kim – “DisneyPrincess dress up kit for my daughter. She has changed costumes at least 50 times and won’t stop.” She enjoys giving gifts and the joy it brings others. Her work has an Angel Tree and her department adopts a few children. The giving is a bond for the co-workers.
Mother-in-Law – “Wedding pictures”
Mom – “Dinner with the family”
Thank you everyone for sharing with me. Hope you and your family had a great Holiday season as well.
My cousin and her husband welcomed to the world their first child over 9 years ago. As Lexi grew, it became apparent something wasn’t right. My cousin worked with physical and occupational therapists and Lexi underwent testing.
Muscular Dystrophy was the diagnosis. Over the years she has dealt with this disease and it’s negative side effects.
She has made a huge decision for her own health, have a major surgery to help her.
I’ve made quilts for plenty of kids through Project Linus. Since Lexi is being brave and undergoing surgery today, I wanted to make something could provide comfort from 1200 miles away.
Portion of the front.
She likes neon pink and green along with peace signs. Circles came to mind when I first contacted my cousin about making the quilt.
Zoom in on the circles.
I hope this quilt provides warmth and comfort through a scary surgery for a young girl.
Moda Eva is one of my favorite fabric lines. It’s girly and offers great shades of purple, green, and pink. Paisley, swirls, peacocks, polka dots, circles, and vines.
I’ve made potholders and quilts from this great line.
On the quilt I was really unsure what to do with it. Took a few different layouts on the design wall. The best layout is variegating the fabric from darkest to lightest. I think it turned out pretty well.
I LOVE making baby quilts. A very good family friend asked me to create a signature square quilt for the arrival of her grand daughter. She wanted greens and pinks. With this quilt I have officially gone through my bright pink fabric stash.
I started with a 1.5″ and 2.5″ strips of a variety of fabrics. Each square was completely different.
After cutting.
On the Design Wall
Needless to say grandma was happy with the end result.
One Big Family
Congrats!!!!
Saturday was the first craft show I had ever been a vendor at. It was an interesting experience. Much like Etsy, people like to stop, look, compliment you on your items, and then move on to the next shop. Thanks for stopping by.
Overall the show was slow and the only vendors that did well were the re-sellers. Apparently these customers were more interested in something mass produced instead of something someone actually made.
Most people noted that they too had made a quilt in their lifetime, they sew, or asked me how long I had been sewing. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I said 10 years.
For my first show it was a great learning experience and the push I needed to get my Etsy shop where I want it to be. Good news considering I have some custom orders to be doing in the next couple of weeks.
Thank you to G and the comment that was left this morning. I have found the quilt artist I wanting to find.
Noriko Endo
Time to go through my scrap bin and start slicing to make create some wonderful confetti.
No way can I even compare to her wonderful work, but I may have to attempt a similar art quilt to really capture the wonderful fall colors.
Visit, http://park19.wakwak.com/~noriko/, to see her techniques. Enjoy and let your imagine run wild.
BE CAREFUL Googling her name and images. I found some naked women…scary and I was at work. EEEKKK!!!
Okay we are half way through the month of September. So far I have avoided purchasing any fabric. 15 MORE DAYS!!!! I can do this.
The Holidays are really coming up quickly. Today has been more of a maintenance day. I took my machine apart and really worked to get the lint out, replace needles, and clean my area. BTW…be warned if you Google images of LINT. This was the best representation of what was inside my machine.
There will be a sewing marathon on Saturday. I wanted to be as ready as possible. Here is a list of what I will be working on:
The next two weekends are really busy and my first show is October 16th.
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