Making Progress

I'm making progress on my quilt!

And check out these hand woven dish towels made by my friend Rena, on her loom!  They're quite amazing! 👏😊

 

Collector or Quilter??

I became slightly obsessed with Tilda fabric a couple of years ago. Now I have quite the stash and I want/need to make something with it!  I'm looking for great Tilda fabric pattern ideas, so if you have any great patterns that would enhance this beautiful fabric, please leave a comment below! 😊❤️

 

Daisy Do Progress

I made a huge mess today choosing fabrics for more Daisy Do flower blocks.  I'm appreciating quilt-making in my grandmothers' era, tracing templates and hand piecing!  I enjoy the hand piecing - tracing the templates... not so much....

I am finding that these fat quarters with four different fabric designs in each fat quarter are coming in really handy for the size and amount of pieces that I need!  Clever idea, whoever thought of this!

Below are the blocks that are almost finished.  Not a great picture with my carpet as a backdrop, but you kind of get the idea.  I'll try to get a better picture next time.  I think I need to make 46 of these!  I'm still trying to figure that out.  I'm also trying to choose fabrics with more contrast this go around. 😊

 

Lucy Boston Revisited

I was really, really tempted by a new Block of the Month starting in June that involved hand piecing, EPP, hand appliqué and embroidery.  I have to make my decision by tomorrow whether or not to sign up for it.  I resisted temptation!  I remembered that I already have a hand piecing project that I started a long time ago and really need to finish!  I've been stumped over how to finish it, so it has sat in a project box on my shelf for quite some time. I hand pieced 30 blocks from the Patchwork of the Crosses pattern, a quilt made by Lucy Boston way back when. It has been a popular quilt to recreate.  If I had English Paper Pieced the quilt, I might have continued on and finished it, but after hand piecing 30 blocks, I'm ready to call it good and find a way to finish it up. I debated on how to do that and finally, today, decided to hand appliqué the blocks onto a background square.  I have some ideas for a setting - I'll decided that once I get the blocks all appliquéd and squared up.  Today I painstakingly pressed the seam allowances on the outer edge of 16 of the blocks.  I think for me, it will take less time to hand appliqué the blocks to a background, than to continue hand piecing the background.  We shall see!  At least, after several years, I'm doing something!

 

Another Top Pieced

Here is the other quilt top I recently pieced, using up some of my 30’s fabrics. It will eventually be a baby quilt.

EGA - Temari

First of all - check out that cake!  My friend Kim sent me that picture.  Definitely too cool to eat :)

Today I went to the Embroidery Guild meeting and started a new Temari design with teacher Barb.  Here is the first one that I began last month and just completed.  This is fun, but also kind of hard!  I worked on it some more this evening before I forget what I'm supposed to be doing :)

Hope your week is off to a great start!!

If You Requested This Pattern

I have had several people comment on my post about this quilt, requesting the pattern.  I replicated an older quilt, so figured out dimensions etc. from looking at pictures and measuring the older quilt.  I found my notes and measurements and will be happy to share with those who were interested.
Please email me at: kholt82@gmail.com and send me your mailing address if you'd like it mailed, or I can scan and email the instructions to you as well, whichever works best.

The Butterfly

Yesterday I went to the Embroidery Guild meeting and we had a lovely presentation by Cheryl Phillips.  Patsy, pictured below with Cheryl had made this jacket back in the 90's from a book written by Cheryl Phillips.  Patsy finally got to meet Cheryl in person and show her this beautiful jacket that she'd made!

Patsy with the book, written by Cheryl, she used to make the butterfly jacket.

Cheryl and Patsy together

Two butterfly quilts made by Cheryl

A phoenix and an eagle, made by Cheryl in a similar style to the butterfly.  It was a wonderful presentation and I have more pictures to share.

It's been a busy week for me - good news though - my computer came back today!  (Actually they replaced it so let's hope this one works great!)

A Celebration of Color

Pantone announced the Color of the Year 2018 - Ultra Violet!


And at the Houston Quilt Festival they had an exhibit entitled "A Celebration of Color" sponsored by Aurafil.  See the pictures below!

Rainbow Cat Eyes
by Laurie Ceesay

Beach Colors
by Kathy York

The Golden Window
by Cecilia Koppmann

Jeweled Window
by Judy Nelson and Debbie Spencer

Spectra
by Kristine Zimdars
quilted by Carleen Fletcher

Sneak Peak!

Here is a sneak peak at Millefiori block number three!  I've been doing the prep work this week.  I like having some stitching to do in the evenings while I watch TV (or Tee Va Vee as my granddaughter says :)

This part of the process is more time consuming than actually sewing the pieces together, but it's also fun choosing the fabrics, doing some fussy cutting and placing them to see what kind of design you're going to end up with.  I really can't tell how it's going to look until I get it all laid out!  And then I either love it, think it's OK enough to leave, or I've actually taken the pieces out and tried something different.

Either way it's a FUN and exciting project to work on.  My sewing room is a mess as I'm pulling fabric fro everywhere, but that is a fun part of the process too.

Notice the little fussy cut diamonds above and I really love how the chevron fabric made a cool design in this block.

Sometimes laying the fabrics together in big chunks make me think that "these two particular fabrics will not work together" but then I find that a very small piece of the fabric may work just fine!

Go play and have fun!  I'm going to clean up my sewing room and prepare my Woodland Whimsy block.

Millefiori Block Number Two!

I finished the second block of the Millefiori quilt I am working on!  On to block number three!

My New Favorite Hair Stylist

I am making a bit of progress on my millefiori quilt.  You can see the blue/green block coming together here.  I've now finished that second round and am working on round three!

Cute sign hanging in the entry of my daughter Michelle's home!

And here is my new favorite hair stylist :)



Hope you're having a great day!!

Distracted

I have been a terrible blogger lately! I have been doing a lot, but not a lot of quilting!  I do have a couple of things I have been able to work on that I will share soon.
For now I will share this photo that was in an email sent to me by The Quilter's Lodge in Draper, Utah.  Having just spent a few days cleaning out my sewing room recently, I could definitely relate!

I was able to assist a fellow quilter in deciding on and drafting borders for her Circle of Friends quilt.  I'm excited to see the finished result!

I hope you are getting in some quilting time and enjoying the beautiful Fall weather :)