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wip wednesday #9

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Wow! It’s been a busy week. Here’s what I’ve been working on:

1. February 12x12x12 quilt is coming along. It’s been fused, appliquéd, beaded, and basted. I’m going to try hand quilting with YLI Jean Stitch in hot pink. Here’s a sneak peek (right).

btw: I haven’t given up on the January 12x12x12 sashiko quilt. I’m not quite ready to start that one yet, and didn’t want to be perpetually behind the whole year.

2. January FFFC quilt center panel is fused (left). The red spool looks odd in the photo. My heart sunk when I noticed that, but when I checked the real thing it looked fine. :-) It was hanging on my design “curtain” and must not have been flat against the wall.

I’m not going to appliqué the pieces down, just machine free-motion quilt over the whole thing (any suggestions for type of thread to use?). I’m also choosing the border fabrics. I really like the way this one turned out and might make another one larger with needle-turn appliqué. This one is 8 inches square. (That’s an easy size to do when I use my computer because I can print it all out on one page.)

3. CBQ miniature challenge (no I didn’t make all of these blocks in one week, but I did do some!) is made from a UFO I started in 2004. It’s Housepitality from Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Jan/Feb 2004 issue, except really, really small. The original house blocks are supposed to be 10 inches. I’m not sure what size mine will be (right) since they’re not finished yet. The square-in-a-square blocks you see there will finish at 1/2 inch.

4. Hand quilting practice almost every day. I’m working on making the stitches even. They’re generally about 10 stitches to the inch.

5. Bling Bling scarf is up to 27 inches long. I’ve finished one ball of yarn and am hesitant to start the new one (it’s a different dye lot and looks really different) for fear it won’t look right. Maybe I’ll go back to the store with the scarf and see if there’s some that looks more like my scarf than the one I have.

6. Studio cleaning because with this many projects going on you can’t work in a messy place!

7. New blogger is adding line breaks when I upload photos and in general is misbehaving, making this post take entirely way too long. At least there were no problems to fix when my blog migrated. I like that I can add labels.

happy quilting!

a little of this, a little of that

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Friday at CBQ, member Janet Bottroff presented a trunk show of quilts from A to Z, including many of her delightful watercolor-style quilts. It’s so interesting to see the different creative paths that people take, and very inspiring. Maybe someday I’ll have made enough quilts to put on a trunk show. Janet is also a writer and composed this entry, Quilt Jewels, for The Quiet Hour’s 2005 daily devotional book.

CBQ’s Spring Challenge is The Size IS the Challenge, or miniature quilts to be judged at the April meeting and displayed at the guild’s May Quilt Show and Mini Home Tour. There are four categories: Small-less than 24″, Smaller-less than 18″, Smallest-less than 10″, and Accurate scale: dollhouse scale of 1 inch=1 foot. I have a great miniature UFO that I pulled out. It was nothing short of a miracle that I could even find it in my studio. Most of my UFOs are stacked along with my fabric stash, but you can’t throw 1/2″ to 1″ blocks in your stash. I’ll show photos for WIP Wednesday. For some mini inspiration see Teri‘s amazing award-winning miniature quilt, Grace, here (1st place at Road to California 2007!).

This is my ultimate last chance to post under old Blogger before a force-switch to the new. Let’s hope everything goes OK with my next post ;-)

happy quilting!

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goodnight, moon

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Goodnight, Moon (8 5/8″ x 8 3/4″) is my December Fast Friday Fabric Challenge piece. This time we were to choose the first or last line from a favorite book (Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown: In the great green room there was a telephone…) and use the design element, value/contrast.

The first FFFC challenge I tried is still unfinished. I’ve since learned to work small and be quick. It’s very liberating to give my seam ripper a vacation and leave small mistakes in. It’s also great to try out techniques I would never have otherwise if I had to do them in a full-size quilt. I then get inspirations for other things which I might someday try full-size.

You can read about how I made Goodnight, Moon on the FFFC blog as well as see some of the other works posted.