color trends: more options.

 Helen had it spot on... I had this quilt on my design wall, you know, the one I SAID would be the one that would live on my bed.. that it just might be the one!  (the one that has been staring at me all week on my wall, and I ran out of fabric for! oh yeah! that one!  I Gotta say, I love it!!! Now I better finish it! I have half of the top pieced... Just got the extra fabric in the mail... It goes together so quickly... I better just do it...

Well, after all that playing around, I made the bed up as I normally do with the blankets I use on it right now... The turquoise looks really good on it too! Dang it!    Although that's a queen size, I through it over my hubby's quilt because it's freezing in our bedroom, and hot everywhere else in our loft.. go figure!

Well, you all were right.. I will rotate them,  My Favorite is the African Fabric quilt. I think I will trim it down so I can still get that zigzag border on it... It really warms up the room...  I really adore the fabrics... And look! If you watch the color trends for FALL, Pantone has their colors for this year listed... My rug sums it all up!  Thanks for all your ideas yesterday!  I so appreciate you input!  I also want to get the brown gray and purple one done, and the top solids quilt... Good to cover all my options...  haha!

Lastly, just because it's very odd...and made us laugh....We came across this guy in the subway the other day.. his sign says,

"YOUR SMILE IS BEAUTIFUL!"

 Only in NYC... my friends... we see it all.

Have a great weekend!

long last finish

Yes.
I have many many quilts here, that just need Binding....
Yesterday, I pulled this quilt out, and finally got the binding done on it...

This quilt was my first attempt at a Quilting bee.

I sliced up a bunch of fabric into strips, sent each person one strip of each color
and asked that they make a 12" block wonky log cabin quilt without
cutting or cleaning up my uneven strips...then when they reached the 12"
size, to then use the scraps to make a little tiny block,

and lastly, send all the crumbs back to me,
as I used EVERY BIT OF FABRIC I bought, to make this quilt.
See that little tiny purple square upper right below Humphrey the elephant?
(someone's lovey was left on my bed!)

anywho, there are many 1/2" square bits in this quilt....

I had to throw in some stars with a print fabric... the all solids wasn't working for me...

SO this is how to NOT ADD TO YOUR SCRAP BINS...

buy it,
use it.
all of it.
(wish I could do that all the time!)

Than hang it outside to photograph it, while the fed ex man honks
at you because your still in your PJ's....
LOL!
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AMAZING....

We were at the children's museum the other day, and this plaque caught my eye...
Fannie Tunison...Sews and painted with only her mouth as she was paralyzed from the neck down... Can you imagine?
I googled her to see what else I could find out about her....
Miss Fannie Tunison, (click for more info) does all her work with her lips and tongue. It may sound incredible but nevertheless remains a fact, that not only she threads a needle using only her lips and tongue, but executes the most elaborate embroidery, by the sale of which to patrons she supplements her earnings. She is also American born.


Happy sewing!

ALL WoNkY

Focus...

Last night I took all the other stuff off my wall, and put back up my wonky log cabins...
I was ready to tackle them... Today, plans changed and I had all day to sew! Gotta love that!
So I've spent the day trying to get the top done... I got this far and have taken a break...

I still need to add the outer borders, and finish a few stars on the edges... I added a few subtle ones through out, and used up nearly all the extra little bits of fabric I have in these colors...
You can click the image to see it larger...

It's been fun to finally work this out...
(These were my blocks from the Bee Balm Quilting Bee...)(click here)
and HERE for old posts

Since it was B's idea for me to make a Valentine's Runner for our hallway, she has had full input on this process... She chose the red and purple background, she said it should be longer to go over the edge of the table (6' long), and when I shown it to her last night she said,
It needs hearts... just two.

So I appliqued two hearts in the middle, and this morning she said,
no, it needs more hearts...
So I have a little more applique to do on this before I bind it...

ha! She's become the quilt police on this project...

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I'm still waiting for more thread to finish quilting my tile quilt... it sits and waits...
Tile quilt posts here

And I have stuff ready for my last three ON POINT blocks, but I still haven't gotten around to laying them out... perhaps tonight after I finish all those HEARTS!

;-)

Happy Sewing!

STUFF

My blocks for the Bee Balm quilting bee are coming in, and so I am trying to square them out keeping them the wonky flare to them as possible. I can't wait to have this quilt done... it's been so much fun!
I sent a variety of strips of fabric and the beginning square, and asked that they use all the fabrics... So that is where the little one s came into play.
I 'll use them in the borders to go around all the big ones.... I even asked for all the little bits of unused bits as I hope to put ever last bit on the fabrics into the quilt...

Look at some of the tiny pieces I got back!
wish me luck!

Amy asked about the Tile quilt (click for more images) blocks and how I did it.
I keep a bag of tiny scraps, that are just to small or wonky to cut into squares, and I really just picked stuff out of my scraps and tiled them, or laid them out around the block,

fused them with a tiny piece of fusible web just to hold them in place,

and needle turned appliqued the pieces down. They go very quick.

I also peel the fusible web off before I finish sewing them down because I want them to be a little puffy when I am done...
You can pack them in as tight as you want as the pieces get much smaller as you sew them down.

I could have put more in the blocks I did but I was also focusing on the back ground fabrics to come through... So I left them a bit sparse....

Let me know if you start a project like this, I would like to make another after I finish this one!
Maybe will do another quilt along.. what do you think?

Great way to hit the scrap bin...

I quilted and bound this quilt yesterday.

Half way through sewing the binding it got it's first use...
I pulled it up and went to sleep for a hour and half...

It works well! ;-)

Of course B is back in school today,
And I AM DOWN FOR THE COUNT....
figures right? Mommy syndrome....

Kids get sick, mom's get sicker... ;-)

Santa, if you need a new Rudolph this year,
My nose could guide your sleigh!

Or, I could do one of those cold medicine commercials where
the nose runs away from the scratchy tissue....

sigh.


HAPPY SEWING!

V

Bee balm quilt bee

Had to pop this on the blog. my one sewing adventure for the day...
I'm in the Bee Balm Quilt bee, and this was our December block.
Looks great with the black background!
Instructions were on Bonnie's site...Quiltville

I had never paper pieced, so this was a first for me, and I'm quite happy with the results...