Sat. stuff

Memories: Sold

My two little quilts are up for sale on the AAQI page.
It your interested, go take a peak.

#4777 Memories & 4778 PAST PRESENT & FUTURE


Tonya has a class up to do some wonky Amish stuff!
Go check it out here if you want to play along...
I started straight in last night... Couldn't help myself!



This piece is coming right along. I know exactly what I want from it...
A mixture of memories from my grandmothers house, the quilts she made and all that fabulous 40's wallpaper that covered her walls... Funny that this started from thinking about a cheese and crackers quilt! Funny how the mind wanders!
Grandma's house... that's a good name for this one...

little of this and that

Not in the mood to actually put something together today...

But I am bumbling around playing with scraps, and odd blocks left over from the quilt I am cutting pieces for below....

Totally inspired by all the Cheese and cracker quilts that Humble Quilts has been doing,
I've been processing how I'd do a quilt like that... a way to wonky it up, or play with squares...

So I started by cutting out some cheddar-y looking fabric, and taking all the 2"ers I had in darks to play with.... It's now taking its life... And I like where it's going!
But I still wont' put it together today... A good day to just play!

I can't believe I am actually planning on making this quilt...

And Before Shelly says,"YOUR MAKING A PINK quilt?"

No! I'm not, It's PEACH...
;-)
Sorry all you pink lovers... Barb, Andi ;-)

I did piece a back for the little baby quilt I did yesterday,
that's about all the sewing I have in me today!
Perhaps I should get out my iron...

I have been enjoying those hand sewing projects lately,

so I am working on a little scrap something...
Just a peek...

Have a great weekend!

Leftovers!

Cleaning out the stash... As I pulled out all those orphaned blocks for the kitchen sink quilt, I took out the leftover blocks from the 9 patch gather quilt we all made last year.

I think these are a few of Dee's Blocks and a few from Susan. I think they work well together!

Today, I put the last blocks together for one more quilt for Donations
to go with the Sis Boom Pow kids blankets...

Good for wee lad don't you think?
Can you tell I am married to a Scot? wee lad... ;-)

Funny how the On POINT blocks fit so well with one of my favorite fabrics....
I guess it's subconscious thing!

Also, another yardage batch of another favorite fabric is going for backing on the Kitchen sink quilt. The green and red floral building blocks by American Jane... (bright green and red...like the cross quilt...I see my themes emerging again) completely by accident of course...

I also added some appliques here and there, with a few more leftover blocks...

Now I think I am ready to get it quilted and on my bed...

Happy Sewing!

Listen to hear the quilt speak...

I'm in slight shock over here...
I actually finished piecing the Kitchen Sink Quilt....

I was really getting tired of it on my wall, and although I wanted it done, I wasn't mustering up the steam for the last push to get through it...

I swear it's the longest I have ever worked on one top...
I should have counted how many Y seams were in this monster... sigh.

I was having a hard time getting my Gumption up to finish it...
So much so, that I did nothing on it for days.

So this morning I thought, just give it an hour, and then move on to something else...

Well, let me tell you... This quilt had a mind of it's own...

As I had finally gotten down to putting the last corner on this quilt, it was 1" short.

I pressed the quilt, fixed a loose seam, Swiped it off my Sewing table,

pushing everything else onto the floor... Lots of fabric scraps, blocks etc...

I laid it out on the floor,
and

ONE scrap piece of fabric stuck to the quilt.

Not only was it once inch wide, but it was the exact length
to fill that gap you see just above the corner block...
the dark area where the floor peaks through...

My quilt,
handed me
the very last piece to add to this quilt...

Thank you Quilt GOD!

Onto other things... More red.

Are you even surprised?

Happy Sewing!

Pixie Dust and Craft Hope for Haiti

The Pixie Dust Quilt so many of you help make,

is up for sale at Craft HOPE for Haiti's etsy shop.

Please tell one and all!
post it
blog it
email it...

SOLD!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39313274

Thoughts and prayers of Peace and Power to all the people of Haiti.

plugging along...again

I am still plugging along on the Kitchen sink quilt...
I have the left side left to piece, and then I can attach the big bottom strip.

It's literally a sweat shop in my studio today, as it's nearly 60 degrees outside and rainy,
(IN JANUARY!!)
And the building has the heat on...
So before I sweat til I disappear entirely, I gotta get out of the loft...

I feel I have posted these so many times!

But look! I finally got them all appliqued!

I may be putzy, but it was so worth it! Now I gotta figure out the borders.

Sorry folks, you may see this one again a few times more, before it's finished! sigh.

I did get the Chinese new year quilt finished also this weekend.
Slowly, I am getting UFO's finished...

what's cooking?

Homemade Chicken soup with...

Fresh soup noodles....

With roasted tomatoes.....

mmmmm, pot roast in the oven for supper...

Sewing? what sewing?

Just an itty bit of sewing....

and a whole lot of munchin'

MMMMM, MMMM GOOD!

Fresh Roasted Tomatoes

Grape tomatoes halved,
coat with olive oil
Sprinkle with brown sugar, kosher salt, and fresh grind pepper...
roast in oven at 300 for 3o-45minutes...

Enjoy.

Wrap up...and a winner!

I finally got my last three ON POINT blocks cut... Sheesh! I've been procrastinating... well, maybe I still am, I need to sew them together today... so I can Applique them...
Got get to it!
Time to Finish!!!

Got The New Year quilt Quilted yesterday.... My machine was fighting em the whole way...
4 broken needles, 100 time shredding thread.... tried every needle I had.... cleaned the machine... it was just not working with me....
But, I persevered and got the binding on, for me to do this weekend...

Then I got back to my Tile quilt, quilting.... I had ordered thread, which finally came... Now the machine seams to be working ok... go figure.... I think It just really hates red thread....

SO here are a few peaks inside the Liberated Quiltmaking II book!
I was flipping through, and was Happy to see one of Tonya's Quilts in the there!
Her great Alphabet quilt! Way to go Tonya!! I Can't wait for your book to come out!

I like how there are many quilts done by other people in this book.
Great to see other people's interpretation of Gwen's work too...

But Ultimately, Gwen's Quilts just knock your socks off. Gotta love those colors!

SO I guess you'd like to know who will be checking their mailbox for this book right,
Without further ado...

#89
Char
from Cloth Stitched WINS!
Congrats Char!
( Need your email! only have your website!

I hope you enjoy the book, and make at least one WONKY quilt!

***

With color on my brain, I've been spotting fabulous things in the city the past week....

(above) "The WALL" by Frosty Meyers has been restored to it's bright fab finish
on Houston and Broadway in Soho...
Check out his webpage... fun site

I see this truck constantly in my hood, and finally had a chance to snap a pic...
Love that Graphic color!

I had to drive around the block to grab this photo... once I realized what it was...
This is a Richard Serra Sculpture being dismantled on a flat bed truck outside the The General Theological Seminary in Chelsea...
It was quite a site and I love the rusty color against the seminary

And as I sat at my desk, facing these buildings a FLASH went off in this building... I look up and at the about the 25th Floor this guy is standing looking south(and taking a photo), towards downtown Manhattan....

Note to all, even at the 25th floor,we can see you when you have no clothes on.... The sun was pouring in...clear as day...

(But Don't you love that RED!!!)

Happy Friday!

GIVE AWAY!!

GIVE AWAY!!!

No sewing for me today.
boo hoo!!!

In the spirit of my wonky log cabin quilt in the last post,

I want to share with you a copy of

Gwen Marston's new book LIBERATED QUILTMAKING II

I happened to get my copy yesterday, and
for some unknown reason, I ordered two!

oops.

So I will share one with one of you lucky people...

~~If you have it already, please don't leave a comment,~~
Let someone else have a copy please.

(if you want to answer the question but not enter the giveaway
go to the post and leave a comment...)

****

I have still been thinking about COLOR, which I posted about all last week, I have one last question for you all to answer...

When you play a board game, What color do you ALWAYS choose?


Think the game, "SORRY"

are you :

RED
YELLOW
BLUE OR
GREEN.



Which?


I'll draw a winner on Friday (Jan 22,) morning at 8:15 a.m.


***
well, I'm green. always., if someone else hasn't snatched it up.
Unless I play "LIFE" then I am orange...

Have a super sewing day!

ALL WoNkY

Focus...

Last night I took all the other stuff off my wall, and put back up my wonky log cabins...
I was ready to tackle them... Today, plans changed and I had all day to sew! Gotta love that!
So I've spent the day trying to get the top done... I got this far and have taken a break...

I still need to add the outer borders, and finish a few stars on the edges... I added a few subtle ones through out, and used up nearly all the extra little bits of fabric I have in these colors...
You can click the image to see it larger...

It's been fun to finally work this out...
(These were my blocks from the Bee Balm Quilting Bee...)(click here)
and HERE for old posts

Since it was B's idea for me to make a Valentine's Runner for our hallway, she has had full input on this process... She chose the red and purple background, she said it should be longer to go over the edge of the table (6' long), and when I shown it to her last night she said,
It needs hearts... just two.

So I appliqued two hearts in the middle, and this morning she said,
no, it needs more hearts...
So I have a little more applique to do on this before I bind it...

ha! She's become the quilt police on this project...

***
I'm still waiting for more thread to finish quilting my tile quilt... it sits and waits...
Tile quilt posts here

And I have stuff ready for my last three ON POINT blocks, but I still haven't gotten around to laying them out... perhaps tonight after I finish all those HEARTS!

;-)

Happy Sewing!

strings and things....

Stephanie at loft creations has a strings challenge... I just had too...

I so don't need another project,
I have 12 in the works. and 7 that need to be quilted...!!!

But while I wait for more thread to arrive for my tile quilt, I practiced some
shadowing machine quilting on this Valentine Strings runner...
this thing is 6' long... the picture is very deceiving!

It's PINK! well, but not without my RED!!! And it was all scraps. How great is that?
Now if I have some old leftover bindings in pinks and reds this will be done lickety split...

Hop over to Stephanie's blog and join in, at least to get rid of some of those scraps I know you have piling up!

I'd like to think I could get a few tops done this week, but it's going to be a busy one...
One small goal is to get these last three ON POINT blocks done
and then I can put that top together...

I have 5 up on my design walls right now...
Two of these are serious piecing... (the crosses and the geese)
that ain't happening this week.

The Kitchen sink quilt is plugging along...

The Orange and Pink Paula Prass blocks, I could maybe get done this week.
perhaps I'll put that on my must do list...
And I do want to get to my wonky log cabins... but not this week.
I also need to get the Chinese New year quilt quilted.... ...

OK. that's it. that's my list for this week...

On Point blocks, Chinese New year. Paula Prass blocks, play with my wonky log cabins and kitchen sink quilt, and lastly, bind the valentines runner...

Good to get focused.

And I am off....Happy sewing!

lazy days

I have a bag of blue scraps at my house, Which I intended to just cut up into squares...
But I started scrapping them together this weekend. I'm not sure what they will become, but, The scrappy happy little blocks are always so fun to make... Way more fun then squares!

I dug out these old blocks, they must have been at least a year and a half ago...(click here)
They are so NOT me, but I am going to play with them and see if I can make them "ME"...

B has a birthday party to go to tomorrow, and she decided at the last minute

she wanted to give her a soft blanket... So we ran to the store and she picked out some Chinese fabric, and some soft black fake fur and we whipped it up for a giftie...
We realized when we got home, the fabrics we bought from two different sellers in our garment sewing neighborhood, had cut them at totally wrong lengths... so i had to piece some other fabrics together to make it all work...
I just finished the binding...Overall,
It was fun to play with some fabrics that were not cotton... I was curious how the Chinese fabric washed up after being quilted... I kind of like it! rather POSh!

Digging around I also found this other little doll quilt I forgot that I had...
It's so 70's! Scrapped together, with love.Otherwise, it's been a lazy, lay around like the dogs, sort of weekend...
Nothing wrong with that!

Saturday

So whatever has influenced us in our color choices over the years, It's been a interesting journey.
It's fun to look back now and see which colors stand out in my childhood, and which choices I make now in my work to see if they relate or not...


As I watch my daughter grow, and her color choices shift, I get to watch it in motion....
She was a girl who would only wear Rainbow striped clothing for the first 5 years of her life...
Her favorite color was RAINBOW, at 5 she decided BROWN was her new favorite, and this past week, as we realized it was time for some new clothes that fit, her closet is BLACK, GRAY and TURQUOISE... with one pair of RED shoes... So who knows...

Perhaps International Harvester Tractors won't be her inspiration for an
Insane amount of RED stash one day...

But maybe it will be the Empire state Building lit up
BLUE and GREEN against the BLACK night sky.

Or maybe it will be a quilt I made her that she wraps up in at night,
that she will hang on to into her grown up years... Time will tell.

****

Lastly, here's that Doll quilt I mentioned, the orange and white checkerboard quilt that I have had since I was a little thing... Once thought odd, Orange has been my favorite color for quite a long time... I wonder who made this... Gotta ask my mother...

And also the Very top first image is a TINY doll pillow someone made for me when I was little... It's only about 6" long....to sweet for words...

So, Happy Saturday. I'm off to buy more PINK fabrics since I goofed and cut up about 200 squares of pink yesterday the wrong size....

(never say never to using a certain color! that's what happens...)
;-)

Someone will be getting a pink quilt now!