Today is our guilds annual quilt show. The weather is beautiful and we’ve had a great turnout of visitors. Sharon and I are selling our patterns here today. Of course when I decided to take a picture it was my sister sitting in my chair! LOL!!
Here’s a few shots of the room.
Having a good time! 🙂
Theresa
I decided on a layout for the batik squares. I ended up with something different than any of the choices I posted last time. Now I’m working on the borders. I have the first 2 sewn on. A green and then a light colored batik. I have it hanging on the wall and I’m thinking another thin green border and then a dark batik. (This will use up the 2 scraps I have of the dark batik.) Then I can bind it with the green and use some more of it.
That’s what’s on the wall. I haven’t sewn on it yet today as I’m busy with a custom quilt job on Millie and a veggie quilt on Viqtoria.
Vicky used all vegetable fabrics in her quilt and I found a panto with vegetables, so that’s what it’s getting. 🙂
I remember when I first started machine quilting and the choice of pantograph patterns was slim. Now they have so many great ones out there that it’s sometimes hard to choose one! 🙂
Anyway, that’s what’s going on here, to see what others are doing check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Thanks for stopping by!
Theresa
I ended up having 12 squares leftover from the batik quilt top, so I needed to come up with a way to use them. (I didn’t want to have them laying around in a drawer or box somewhere). So I made them into HST’s. Now I have 24 squares, which is enough to do a lap quilt. I played around with arranging them on the design wall and here’s a few ideas….
I could make pinwheel blocks and add a sashing.
Or turn them and make squares on point. Again adding a sashing.
I could just make them triangles with a sashing.
Or I could do this.
Or this.
Or this.
Or even this way.
Decisions decisions. I’m not sure what I will do with them yet. I’ll look at them today while I quilt and maybe decide on the layout…….
Have a good day!
Theresa
Sashings and borders are on. Yea! It’s now ready to quilt. I have to work on a few customer quilts before I can quilt it though.
I now have 2 of my own tops ready for an all over quilt job. I have the first of 2 black and white strip quilts assembled.
I am making progress on eliminating my stash. 🙂
Have a good day!!
Theresa
I’ve been doing my 10 minutes a day with the blue blocks that have been on my design wall and I now have 16 blocks done. Yea! I took them down so I could put these blocks up and decide what to use for the sashing fabric and also decide what width to make them. I’m using my stash and these are NOT my colors, so I don’t have much to choose from. I also don’t know what I’ll do for the border. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions…..
That’s my wall for today. To see more walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
Since devoting 10 minutes a day to my blue blocks, I have completed 3 more of them. I still have a long way to go but at least my design wall changed since last week! Woo Hoo! I now have 13 of 32 done.
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Check out more design walls at http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
My design wall has had the same blocks on it for several weeks now. During that time I’ve completed several other quilts, but those poor scrappy little blue blocks are getting neglected. So I am hereby going to dedicate 10 minutes each day to sew on the blue blocks.
As of today I have 10 blocks sewn and I need 32.
My goal is to have the top done by July. Hmmm….better go do my 10 minutes for today…..luckily I have a few 9 patches sewn already, maybe I can finish a block in my 10 minute time frame!! 🙂
Theresa
I’m determined to lower the amount of my stash and I think I’m doing a fairly good job of it so far! Yea!
Last night I pulled out 44 black and white FQ’s and cut them into strips. They are now ready to sew together.
I laid them out from dark to light.
As soon as I get these sewn together I already have plans for the next quilt, using my stash!
Time to strip!! LOL!!
Theresa
After our long day Saturday, and the fact that we lost an hour of sleep because of daylight savings time, I was pretty well tuckered out yesterday. I hate to let a day go by without sewing or quilting something, so I decided to sew a bit more on the scrappy blue quilt I’m working on. I’m cutting strips of blue fabric from my scraps and making them into blocks. Here’s what I finished last night and have on my design wall today.
I have lots of pieces cut into sections.
And several more strips cut.
This will be another one of those projects that will take me awhile to complete. I guess a little bit here and a little bit there will eventually get me to the completed quilt top! LOL!
To see more design walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Have a good day!
Theresa
What a fun day we all had yesterday! It was our annual mystery quilt day. We had over 50 ladies sewing, eating and visiting!
Here’s a few of them.
We named this years pattern Double D’Lite. Here’s mine.
Here’s Sharon’s.
Those making the throw size quilt got a lot done on theirs.
Some of the ladies with a block. It’s fun to see all the different colors they choose.
There’s a sneak peek at some of what happened yesterday. I’m already looking forward to next years!! 🙂
Have a great day!
Theresa
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