Houses?

Not sure my border is going to stick with these quilt blocks. Not even sure how many quilts I'm going to end up with, not to mention orphans.

             

I made a wonky house block to show someone how to make them. (that first one is middle bottom in this next photo). Thought the block was incredibly dull, and was then amazed how much I liked it with the components I was working on. So I made a couple more houses, this time incorporating some of the strippy bits I'd already made

     

I took my blocks home and when I put them on my design wall, I was no longer sure I should include the X blocks. I'm not always sure where the line is between fun busy and too busy.

Taking out almost all the X blocks and the triangles:

I have a few more houses to finish up. And I want more components that have wider strips, bigger pieces. Then I'll play some more.

What do you guys think?

It's a Flimsy!

Waste Not Want Not is now a flimsy!! (48" x 68")

I wish the photo did a better job of showing the deep, wonderful purple of the 6" outer border ~ maybe once I take it outside in the sunshine the true colors will photograph. Unlike my first LAGT project (No Words Needed), this one has words on the front. (photo will enlarge)

Okay, I confess, I did use fusible and machine applique instead of free-piecing (I've been home with a horrible cold/ear infection & my brain just couldn't handle free-pieced letters).

I'm pretty sure Waste Not Want Not will end up with Baptist Fan quilting (I'd love to do freehand fans, but my wrist/thumb will not tolerate that kind of handwork) and the binding will be red. Woo Hoo!

There is another liberated log cabin quilt in the works, but it will not be done by June. Once No Words Needed and Waste Not Want Not come back quilted from Chris and I get the bindings done, I'll share "finished" photos.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have all the amazing quilts from this challenge in one place ~ that would be visually incredible! There are so many amazing quilters participating in this challenge . . .

Quiltdivajulie

Roz's liberated Amish quilt

Here's the quilt that I have sewn. Yahoo! I love you Tonya, what a fun challenge! And now I can let myself look through the blog to see all the other quilter's creations. I didn't want to look before I finished sewing, in case another quilter influenced me, or I might have gotten discouraged when I saw all the great ideas of others. Of course, this quilt will require a lot of quilting. I must say that I became obsessed with sewing the quilt today. I'm even late for supper. And behind on my spring cleaning.

Liberty quilt ready

My "Liberty" quilt is ready.
http://malinaplass.blogspot.com/

finished top

After having added to my stash of Cherrywood fabrics, and received a nice donation from Librarygal Pam, I was finally ready to make some letters and words. I used 1.5" and 1" strings for the letters - so they are quite big!

Some of you will know that Quilt it is the name of my blog - could not resist integrating that phrase. Reading the book, I noticed how "making do" was a central value of the Amish. So these two phrases kind of stuck in my head, and I love how they sound together. I was planning on using them in the opposite order - make do, quilt it. But then I made a little mistake in choosing the colors for the letters (yellow letters on purple background) so I had to switch the two around. Or to make do - you could say....

It's a bit hard to get a true picture of the dark purple colors - still winter...

I am considering hand quilting this in big baptist fans or machine quilt a diagonal grid. Not sure yet, but my hands are saying they need a rest from hand quilting...

Loved making the letters, have started planning another all letters quilt. And there is so many pretty Amish quilts to be inspired by....

My second!!

Hi!! Anne, Oslo, Norway here!!  At last, my second top is ready for quilting!!  I think I`m going to machinequilt it myself. I have had a lot of fun with this one too!!  I realy enjoy this way to saw.....Not need to think 1/8 inch measurement. And to play with the colors.... Love it!!

The Project

This is Wendy.  My DH has termed this "The Project", so the name has stuck. Here's my crystal blocks I've been L&E for the past few weeks. My quandry (much to my DH's amusement) has been which background to use. In case you can't see the colors well, we have dark green, black, burgandy and navy. The burgandy is about a half step darker in real life. That's the one I'm leaning toward, but the black is nice, too. So is the navy. Of course I just like the color green. See my problem? I need impartial judges, please.

Wendy

ZigZag

Knit One Quilt Too Kristin here. I decided to finish these blocks while at my class with Gwen Marston. I will let you know when I get that blog post up! However, I didn't know what setting to use. The one above was the first one I tried- it would be big and would need those setting triangles.

The second one I tried was the one above. I kind of like the asymmetrical setting now as I look at it, but at the time I thought I'd need to make 4 more blocks and I didn't want to do that.

So, this is what I ended up with (like #94). I love it! The gals in the class liked it so when it came time for show & tell I told everyone about the challenge. Tonya's info got bandied about and everyone's excited to see her book come out. I showed several of my word quilts. I still hadn't come up with a word, but one of my classmates suggested ZigZag and that's what I'm going to use! I would love to do a red & black border similar to the original, but I have no more of this black. I'm still trying to figure out which brand it is. I think it might be the Moda solid black. Anyway, that's where I am!

Maybe Not

Just more playing. When I first looked at the Ocean Waves quilt, one thing I noticed was how the blocks formed X's and O's. I decided to play with that aspect of the quilt by making my kind of X's and O's. Learned one thing for sure - these do NOT go all together like this. Will most definitely need plain border separation.

I like the X's though. I had fun making them a bit more scrappy than usual.

How are you all doing? Been seeing some FABULOUS quilts. If anyone is still stuck trying to decide what quilt to do or what colors, please post about it, maybe we can all help.

take care, ton

Be well craziness

I've finished the crazy patch border on this (with lots of red) and I'm really liking it. (For some reason, the words are fuzzy here. sorry). It's measuring about 46 inches square and I'm planning to make it into a rectangle with a top and bottom border, and then putting blue borders all around. Here it is again with blue fabric--the only yardage purchased for this project, lying on the couch underneath the design wall. I'm toying with the idea of another dark narrow border to stop the crazy patches, then red top and bottom, and then the royal.

Finally some progress...

I don't have any good excuses... just been  really busy lately.  Here are my first two blocks.  The A and the P are the first letters from an Amish proverb that I love. "A plump wife and a big barn never did any man harm". I figured if I wanted to keep this quilt I better just use the first letters (besides I didn't think I could do 39 letters) otherwise my husband would get embarrassed everytime anyone saw it...

I am pretty happy with my first letters ever. It will be fun to include them in the churcn dashes... then I won't have to figure out where to put them later :)

my progress

Most of my blocks are done, 7 more to complete and then I can begin to sew the rows. I love all the different quilts that everyone is working on. I plan to do some different words for the front and use the others for the backing.  I'm shooting for a piano key border. I'm using  plate 61 as my inspiration.  I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. It's very windy and rainy here.....good weather for stitching. :)

beautiful threads

http://www.pumpkinpatchprimitives.com/catalog.php?category=129

Hi Beth,

Just wanted to share this site for thread ideas.......
Brenda is the owner of pumpkin patch primitives and leader of another
challenge group I belong to.

Your baskets are lovely.

Happy Sewing

ready.

I'm ready to quilt this!

Yeah!

My plan is big stitches with dark thread.

Maybe black. Maybe various colors.

Floss?

Quilting thread?

How about DMC floss on those little rolls?

Should I buy size 12 floss?

And where do I get it?

The shops around here have only size 8 which is kind of thick.

I even splurged and bought wool batting!!

Any hints about thread would be appreciated.

:)

Stitching the piglet

Hello everyone, Lynley here in Canberra, Australia. I've started handquilting on my little pink pig, although I don't know if I'll be finishing it any time soon! It's nothing complicated - just outline quilting in the pinwheels in a starburst style with navy thread. The pink and green blocks are getting freehand baptist fans. And I'm using a nice bright pink thread as someone suggested.

No idea about the border yet; we can wait and see how it progresses. At this stage I'm thinking something complicated and completely unrelated to the piecing of the border - like a cable, or feathers .... but I suspect I'll be getting sick of it all by that stage and it'll end up being straight lines. Not that there's anything wrong with that.