Saturday, July 4, 2015

Happy 4th of July.

I have been busy today. This morning I tried to go back to bed at 4am. I started coughing again and got up and went to my studio. I got a wild hair and started working on a Dresden plate wall hanging.



This is a 7 inch.


 The pink is a 6 inch circle.
And I made a 5 inch circle. I have the fixings for a 4 inch to add. I think I will stack these on a 30 inch background. I'm not sure what I'll use.

I was quilting and forgot to make sure the background didn't get folded. I ripped it out.
 I'm quilting the cats trying to finish them soon and maybe even put a quilted border on it.
 


Saturday, February 7, 2015

Warm Warm February!

Today is my step-son's birthday! 12 years old. Growing like a weed. Tonight we have his friend sleeping over ( I hope they sleep at some point ).

The weather was sunny and windy today. It got up to 70. I worked in my building for about 3 hours. I've decided to finish the chicken crazy quilt. I have the binding sewn to the back and tomorrow I will sew it to the front with a decorative stitch.

Regarding my Dancing Butterfly Quilt A Long: I finished satin stitching the butterflies. I'm pretty happy with them. Now I want to finish Mother's quilt using some of the quilting filler designs from the DBQaL.


Thursday, January 1, 2015

Dancing Butterfly part 1

I am starting the "Dancing Butterfly Quilt-a-long"

I am using fat quarters from "Floral Cascade" for RJR Fashion Fabrics for the Butterflies and for the design squares. (There were about 30 different fat quarters in this stack. I used the blues for the butterflies.)

I have washed and starched and ironed my fat quarters and ironed on my butterfly applique pieces.
(starching and ironing took 4 hours on my feet--ouch)

I have decided that I'm going to use orange and yellow for my butterfly blocks-kind of to represent the sun and the oranges in the flowers.

I'm going to use the extra florals for the back side of my design blocks and I will use red for the back of my butterfly blocks and use the red for the joining strips and the binding.
I still need to do the satin stitching on my butterflies but that will have to wait for a warmer day.


I need to backtrack and make practice sandwiches.

Now on Jan 1, 2015 we are starting our new quilt along with Leah Day.

The Dancing Butterfly Quilt Along
2015