A LITTLE BIT WONKY

I took the Jenny Doan class 'Wonky Star' when she came out to Almonte this summer with the intention of doing a quilt for the door prize for the Christmas in the Valley Artisan Show. So after 3 months and the craft show deadline looming ever closer I have finished it! I have learned a lesson though. One should start and finish quilting a quilt in one sitting. I realized after it was completed that my quilting was much closer than my first day's worth of work. It's good to learn something every day...and that was my uh huh moment. 

GOT A HEX ON ME

I've been using the Eleanor Burns pattern and templates for making hexagon runners and mats.
It's an easier method of sewing up hexagons without struggling with Y seams and it's a nice way to show off nice fabrics.

Da Taa

This is the door prize quilt for the Christmas in the Valley Artisan Show 2015, in Almonte ON. I got the instructions from the utube video from the Missiouri Star Quilt Company. I adjusted the size of the blocks to be bigger, I think they're cut at 5.5" square. I quilted it on the reverse using the poinsettas as a guide. If I had more time I would have completed the stars on the sides. I didn't think of it when it was assembled and had run out of the gold, isn't it the way.

GETTING SOME PROJECTS DONE!

I've been getting some sewing projects completed over the summer as well as taking over my son's room now that's he's been out of the house for a few years...I think it's final and I've turned his old room into an extension of my Happy Place. More of an office/library room with a comfy retro leather chair, shelving and a desk.  Yahoo for my space.

I decided some paper piecing would be good to take with me sitting outside. These are 3/4 inch pieces which make up Grandmother's Garden. I love the Shimmer Line of Northcott fabrics. Just wish they had more reds in the fabric selection. I didn't know what colour to make the binding, so I pieced up bits and made a colourful binding using a selection of fabrics from the flowers. It will be framed with glass in front but the glare makes it hard to photograph without reflections.

 

 

Cupcakes 'n Daisies

Cupcakes 'n Daisies

Lovely blog with lots of pictures!

TEN KIMONOS

 

 

 

 

Ten Kimonos is the name of this miniature quilt. I had sewn a bunch of kimonos for making up cards and then I thought I would try making a miniature of them. I wasn't sure at first on how I would attach them together...with a sashing...no sashing...corner blocks...no corner blocks, then what colour to use so the sashing didn't compete with the kimonos. I like it, I think it worked out nicely.

 

 



Some Spring Things

I've had this fabric stashed away for quite awhile just waiting for the right project to use it in. Then one day when looking through utube quilting videos, I came across  Eleanor Burns demonstrating using her templates to make the Honey Cone Quilt. So I purchased the pattern which came with two templates, I watched the video again and read the instructions...or looked at the pictures and followed them.

It is as easy to sew up as her video and pattern instructions show. I will be using this pattern over and over again.

 

To this...I wasn't sure which colour to use for the binding, so I cut up different lengths of all the colours and sewed them into a binding strip. I think it looks perfect.