Favorite Quilt

As part of Park city girl, Blogger's Quilt Festival,
I'd like to show you my favorite quilt.

When I think of a quilt that sums up the most of what I like to make,
It would have to be this one called,

Cheap Hotels
62" X 82"

I kept for a long time a box to collect all my black & white scraps, then one day began sewing them together very randomly.
This is the process I find the most satisfying. You never know what you r gonna get and you let the fabrics speak to you and let the design emerge.
Once I got most of the black and white bits together, I realized how much it looked
like the new "Cheap Hotels" being built right out side my window...
What I stare at every day as I sit at my computer...
This quilt is not yet, quilted... I haven't been able to decide if it needs to be hand quilted, or machine, or HOW to be quilted....

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I love to experiment and make many kinds of quilts,
but this is the process I keep coming back to and find these quilts to be my most satisfying...
Here's a few others, done in this similar style, that I love. Again, a bunch are not quilted, as I just don't know how to finish them yet.... The ones finished, are hand quilted.

I'm waiting for the bolt of inspiration to hit me over the head!










(and the yet to be finished...)

Monday happenings.

First off. I was naughty.

I started a new quilt when I said I wouldn't until I had those others done...
oh well.
But I got this, and I just had to do something
so I could use this as the backing!
How could I not!

(NOTICE: there are no blues or turquoise in this quilt. ok, there is brown...
oh, well, I sort of tried something new!)

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I sit here AGAIN, cleaning my studio... New York DUST, I swear is the worst. I clean the floor of my studio everyday. And dust bunnies build up that quick... So the hard to reach places, Wow! MoNsTeR dust bunnies! Nightmare quality...
And since I got the new machine, I felt like I needed a new arrangements so I can get to all my machines when I want to, so I have embarked on a complete switch-a-roo! I added a design wall, so i can stop laying things out on the floor, Since i had space to do that, I just needed to move things around a bit. So far so good.

One day I will get to my desk... sigh.

Messy, messy, messy. Things just pile up...



I have been cutting squares from all my scrap bins for the past week. I need to seriously make them smaller. they overflow all over. I feel like I haven't even made a dent in them!

I found many vintage fabric squares, that was a treat! Woo hoo! Add them to the bunch! And so many wonderful scraps of fabric, that can tell such a story. Mostly of my daughter growing up.
Fabric from a vintage dress I cut apart to make her bedding for her crib set. Scraps from clothes I have made for her, hats, diaper covers, toys...

A really tacky XMAS print sundress I made for a themed Christmas party we had one year. I was dressed as a Suzy homemaker... Go figure!
Fabric from quilts that have long since been loved so much I had to repair them.
It was like walking down memory lane. Made it even more real, how fast time goes by.

Another shot of those weird buildings. They actually looks pretty cool at night.

Inspiration

Sew!, or I mean, SO! You know how they sometimes, I think in Domino Magazine, they take an outfit and build a room around the colors?

I had been working on using up my scraps, and put together these blocks of black and white, and came across this picture in INSTYLE, and instantly had to tear it out to stick in my inspiration book...

It seems, an outfit can inspire a quilt as well as a room!

I love Black and White.... Below is my guest room... Stripes, Black, white...
and a little red and purple.



What things (besides a quilt) have inspired a quilt out of you?



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FALL.. Time for apple picking, puffy coats, and the Birthday PaRtY season!

(UGH!)

We're going homemade on the gift giving for Xmas, as well as the zillions of Birthday parties this year...

And really, who doesn't need a HUGE CAT Pillow Anyway?