Have been working on the next step of my
blue bargello quilt this week. As you can see the lack of an appropriate design wall is solved by using the floor of the living room. The quilt measures 48" by 60" before adding a border. The weather has changed, overcast and rain, poor light for taking pictures.
My idea is to make a darker but not monocrome frame. Not sure about the corners. All ideas are welcome...
I will put it away for a little longer and see. Using the floor I have to work quickly. The cats love to play around with all the small pieces of cloth on this wooden floor.
Also in slow progress on my cat quilt, undoing and redoing the arrangement of patches again and again... Not happy with the lower green "garden" section. Think I will leave that out and settle for brown and blue colors, more harmonious and less demanding. Another project on my "design floor". Oh, I would love a bigger house...
My third ongoing project is my
strawberry fields. I put on the binding, but am still quilting the strawberries and flowers by hand. Nice to see the change that happens when the binding is in place.
Then there is the little swap quilt for the 4SQS....
And a little spin off from the cat quilt, 6" by 12"
My first try at needleturn applique. Fun!!! Encouraging to work on a smaller size quilt. Those yo-yo's were also fun. The vase is a beatiful scrap from my aunt. I just love that fabric.
This week I got my copy of
the beautiful book by
Material Obsession. Lots of great quilt and fresh ideas. Big smile! And I also recieved some new and colorful fabrics by Kaffe Fassett:
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing .... I need to try to focus on one wip at a time.
On the other hand, some of these quilts are made in steps. One step at a time and then I put it away for some time before making desitions about the next design step. Working this way, I guess it's quite normal to find yourself involved in to many quilts at the same time...
Like many, I like the bold design and beautiful colors of Amy Butler's fabric. Purchasing charm packs (5" squares of an entire collection) is a good way to get to see these pretties. I really like how charm packs gives you a lot of different designs to play with and I have tried to use the 5" patches in some different patterns. These are medium prints and I don't want to cut them any smaller. So I started playing....
