September 21, 2014

I've almost finished the quilt top for a donation to our annual Quilt Bingo.  A friend in the guild will quilt it for me on her longarm.

I'm making good progress on my hand applique project, Baltimore Garden. 

September 15, 2014

My small quilt, Study for Calaveras, is being auctioned as part of Studio Art Quilt Associates' benefit auction, beginning today! Go check out all the wonderful art.

September 14, 2014

It's been almost a month since I blogged. I have to get back into the rhythm, I've been sick and travelling and sick and travelling.....

Whilst travelling I finished this block from Baltimore Garden.

I've started my next block, with some female cardinals! It was a challenge finding the right fabric in my stash.

I'm still doing this...

We have officially reached "I could never see another tomato and it would be too soon" season.

I've been working on another hand applique project as well, with a deadline in February 2015. 

pinning the design in place, and basting

my trusty companions, and hand basting supplies

all the straight lines are appliqued on

these circles will be embellished, then appliqued on to the base

August 10, 2014

My bee's current swap is just finishing up. This weekend I squared up everything I received, and made all the setting pieces (2 sets of 112 squares) and squared them all up. Whew!

I started putting it up on the wall, and I'm loving it!

August 4, 2014

I did a block exchange with my bee last year of beautiful batik shoofly blocks.  I've been working to finish this "UFO."

This was the first randomly scrappy iteration, November 2013. The original pattern called for nine patches as the alternate blocks but I decided to do snowballs instead.  At a retreat almost a year ago, I made most of the snowball blocks I would need.

Last month when I put it back up on the design wall randomly, I decided it needed a little more designing. I went for a grouping of strong colors with a smooth transition in between.

I had so many blocks, I split the quilt onto two design walls!

I laid out the lower part (sideways) onto my temporary hallway design wall (which may become permanent). I put up the snowballs first, concentrating on color gradation, then added the shoofly blocks.

A not great  photo of the pieced top. I'm debating a border, just to make it comfortably fit on the bed.

July 19, 2014

I am shipping off a quilt this week which will travel for the next two years. I wrote up a page of special instructions for unpacking, display and repacking this quilt, which is a bit unusual. It has moving parts, "doors" that open and close. It also has grommets and magnets as part of the structure.

Since I won't be there to do any necessary repairs, I included repair permission and instructions as well. I also made a special label to accommodate spare parts.

July 28, 2014

I finished the flowers on two Baltimore Garden blocks over our beach weekend vacation.

The flowers still need gold centers. I am thinking of doing all the centers in all the blocks the same color.