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Another blue quilt. Most if not all of these prints are Oriental. Once upon a time, I thought about doing something like this with my cat prints...
This was on a vendor's booth - in retrospect, I should have gotten the pattern, I really like this.
I have this as a UFO - mine would use one cleadon green background with scrappy Oriental prints...
I mentioned the other day my affinity for blue quilts, right?
I couldn't use enough words to express how much I like this quilt. (I especially like that it is symmetrical.)
Simple 4 blocks - I might need to do something like this with my Baltimore Album blocks...
Take a look a the stick pins to get an idea of the scale. Seriously the whole thing might have been 6 inches by 4 inches!
Very fun quilt. The appliques are made with fruit & veggie fabrics, as are the backgrounds!
I am probably never going to make one of these, but this one is particularly nice - I really like the borders!
Not my colors, but I DIG the concept! I can see this in florals, novelties, black & whites, Orientals, cats & Maybe even Taupes!
How can you see it done?
I have collected (probably far too many) some of my sons onesies in hopes of making a keepsake quilt. I really like this pattern (the shadows) & that red border! I also like how there are circles & small squares interspersed with the big squares.
I love quilts that ar not shy about color! & those squares & rectangles - shows that you can make a beautiful quilt with simple shapes...
I hope to do something like this with stripes some day...
1. I am always on the look out for new ways to use Novelties/make I SPY quilts.
2. Solid gray :o)
3. This one without looking at the novelty prints (for say cars & sporting equipment) screams "BOY."
One of the few (if not the only) cat quilts... Love the use of black & whites & that houndstooth - AWESOME.
1. I am always on the look out for how to set ABC quilts.
2. I have that panel...
3. See number 1. - this is so darn cool in execution on this theme.
Well, with a son, I am drawn to boy-ish patterns... I also love brights & those buttons - too cool! (& The tessalation isn't bad either.)
I guess that these are snowballs too... (Or they could be.)
These are not my colors - though I do have an Autumnal UFO...
I loved the background & the way the very darks & very lights play on this quilt.
Anyone who know me, knows that I like blue & white quilts. (If not, I do.) & Yet, I can not quite explain why I have not made one for my self as of yet. I have started 1 (or 2) & planned several in my mind...
I also liked the borders on this one - especially the fact that there isn't a plain spacer between the blocks & the HTS border.
How about not worrying about that & just starting!
Anyone recognize this pattern? Yeah I thought so. It was a Bonnie Hunter (Quiltville) mystery. I think she called it Tobacco Roads.
One of my local fabric stores had a scissor sharpening event to day. & while my Ginghers can use a good sharpening, I am not 100% sure where they are... (Bad quilter - I know.) Meanwhile I know exactly where my knives are & They could use a good sharpening too. So I added this stop onto our weekend errands list of things to do.
While in said shop, a little one (under his father's supervision) tried to wreck the place. He tried to take rulers off of their hooks, threads our of their cabinets & bias tapes out of their bins. I missed the threads episode - I was buying solid reds for a Black & white & red all over quilt. But bias tape packages are perfect fun for an almost 19 m.o. toddler!
So I sat him in this chair - that was conveniently set up next to the Minkie, hoping that he would want to feel the minkie... He felt it a little. All he really wanted to do was run around!
So I went to pay for my reds & then hoped that the knives would be done so that we could leave the store in one piece. (They were - yay.)
So on Monday night, our toilet decided to back up. Yuck - I know! Trust me I know. I had just cleaned the shower & was now bailing toilet water into the clean shower....
Luckily we have a second bathroom. No frantic after hours calls to the plumber. Instead we called my Father in law who is fairly handy. He suggested getting a mid-line snake... So that is what I did yesterday. & I fixed the toilet!
So I rewarded my self with some sewing time. Here are the results. Those are the flower pot sized tumblers. The bases are about 12 inches across. I used all 24 prints from the Hope Vally fabric line + one solid.
For those of you with a design wall & who use it regularly. My hats off to you. Granted I did not start shuffling until I had rows sewn, but I rotated & flipped & moved each of these rows so many times that I lost count.
The tie versus velcro or nothing has finally foiled the boy who would otherwise rip off his hat - over & over again. In this photo he is yanking on the strings...
Two weeks ago (I know I am behind - I have 2 quilt shows worth of photos to share too.) we went berry picking. Jacob picked the leaves & walked around - fairly oblivious. Then he found out what we were doing. After that point, momma picked Jacob ate = in that order.
(Yes the stains came out.)
I made a strawberry cobbler with our plunder - but believe it or not, I used too many strawberries...
This past Friday after work, Jacob & I picked English Peas. I shelled most of them at the field & then went out & picked some more. Jacob was fine with the whole experience until I decided to pick some more - by then he was DONE! (I should have been done too - but I could not visualize how many peas iIhad picked.) (The ice cream to cool us down afterwards hit the spot.)
We ate spaghetti & eggs with peas, sloppy joes with peas & tonight we will have butered peas with salmon. Yeah, I picked a few peas.
I participated in a year long bloggers round robin. It started with the photo transfer. There were size rules for the next several rounds. Then there were applique something type rules. Then there were baste/quilt/bind rules.
I love the result so much that I have already put it up on my wall.
Most of the photos look like this. Who cam blame him - they are so easy to pick & so pretty....
That bush is right outside of our condo. I had to grab a shot (or several) before we went to a picnic. My camera seems to be taking longer & longer to click - so those cute smiley pictures are fewer & farther apart. :o(
My baby eating a baby cone.
The mess on the bib is from the fruit he had earlier for lunch. The ice cream on the bib came later!