Okay, so it’s no secret that I don’t set land/speed records with my quilting projects. Blame it on January, but I’m motivated to finish some of the UFOs haunting my quilting space. This quilt top has been languishing since 2011…I had a plan for it, but something about my proposed design didn’t feel right. Tonight, it’s on my quilt wall …
I started this quilt last year, based on a Zentangle drawing I made, and blogged about it then. I am just now coming back to it and was happy to complete the top piecing yesterday. According to the drawing I had made for it, I now had 5 orange pieces to applique and it would be ready to quilt. My …
It’s so cool to see something I drew turn into a real quilt. Here is the central element of my latest quilt in one piece. The white block in the middle is a temporary part of the construction…I will eventually applique a teal piece over the top, sort of a rounded diamond. Up next: drafting the triangles in the corners.
I’m working on a new quilt idea that sprang from one of my Zentangle sketches. The actual Zentangle® drawing is incomplete and somewhat flawed (I filled in an area with black that I intended to be patterned.) Had I stayed committed to the Zentangle® drawing, I would have somehow incorporated that error into the finished piece…but by the time I …
Danny asked me to make him a Christmas quilt. I tried to use as many of the fabrics that he “delivered” to me from my stash. I was still stitching the binding closed on Christmas Eve, but he did get the quilt by Christmas!
I started this quilt when I found out that Laura was pregnant with Grace, so I have called it Gracie’s Star, or the G Star quilt. I initially thought it would be a baby quilt, but I like it so much I decided to make a larger piece. (Also, after I got that center star done, I decided that there …