Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Quilting Bee Month
It's my month in the Bee Addicted 2 Quilting Bee. I sent out this stack of packages of fabric to the ladies today, and I can't wait to see the blocks that come back to me in March!
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Isa of Ningiu graciously allowed me to use the brilliant diagram she made up. Aren't the squares and rectangles great?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Trimming HSTs
I don't feel too badly that I'm having to trim my HSTs to make them square, since Red Pepper Quilts says she always includes this step too. Goodness knows she's a much more precise piecer than me. However, holy moley this is a tedious business. Here's where I started: one down and over 100 to go.
Here's my pile of trimmings halfway through the pile. This may take a while.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Using Neptune Scraps Already
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Exciting News
Kansas City is getting a Modern Quilting Guild! I'm excited to join. Thanks to Empty Bobbin for spreading the word. Can't wait to see what this group brings.
I'm going outside my box by using a neutral other than white in my Neptune quilt. Kona Ivory. Whoa. Seriously, it more unlike white than this photo shows. Lots of HSTs to go. Yup, I went ahead and ordered another honey bun.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Stacked Coins Doll Quilt - Finished
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Just Begun - Neptune Quilt
I've been itching to start in on a new project with the Neptune honey bun I got a while ago. I love the blues and greens in the line, although I'm not crazyabout the coral prints. It picked my favorites to make these blocks. Not enough variety for a rail fence, so I'm going to try pieced HST (half square triangles) perhaps in a zigzag, perhaps in a barn raising pattern. Too bad honey buns are so small. If I love it, I may need to get another one so that my quilt can be larger than baby size.
A new project always brightens my day, which I need here with two small boys stuck inside because of over a foot of snow outside and sub zero temps for the highs! Here's to pretty fabric and a new project to work on.
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Friday, January 1, 2010
Stacked Coins Doll Quilt
With the scraps from my zigzag quilt, I thought it would be fun to make a coordinating doll quilt. The size and shape of the scraps lent themselves to a stacked coins quilt, so off I went. Here's the pieced top. It is 17 x 23.
Next up, piecing a single zigzag for the backing of the original quilt
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