counting

These are the 5 quilts currently waiting for a binding.

Today it's been 6 years since I started this blog.

First one to have a completed binding will be my no 100 lap quilt.

Do you keep count?

five

My latest quilting adventure started with some beautiful field study fabric and a wish to try making Kathy Doughty's Fractured pattern using 2.5" strips WOF.

I pulled out a warm palette to complement Anna Maria Horners Field study from my stash: orange, pink, red purple and gold. Making blocks and putting them up on my design wall I decided my fabric selection didn't work out, so I put some of the blocks and ready cut strips aside. Then I finished the purple fractured top shown in picture 4.

The spare blocks from this first fractured quilt top kept calling me. I put them on my design wall and decided it was half a top worth of pretty blocks. So I pulled more fabric from stash and made the pink fractured quilt top shown in picture 2.

This second fractured top is slowly being hand quilted on wool batting and a voile backing. (see picture 3). It is softer than butter and oh so tempting to work on.... The key for me is to go slow with the hand-quilting. I have spent all my money at the chiropractors office lately. Not fun! I have to find a way to go back to spend my money on fabric instead.

The center 4 patch in the first picture are made from spare parts from the second fractured top. They were just winking at me saying "don't we look pretty? All we need is a few star points from the scrap bin."

So we are down to picture 5. The spare parts from the spare parts formed a figure of five stars. Reminding me to tell you it's been 5 years since I started this blog. Thank you all for making it such a great place to share ideas and inspiration!

Wish you all a great wednesday and hope you will have some pretty spare parts tempting you to get creative! Me, I am trying to go real slow. 5 years is not so long, I do not want to stop quilting and blogging just yet!

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a very quiet

celebration of this blog. It's been 3 years, today, since my first post.

The celebration is quiet, due to a shoulder that still needs rest. Also quite knocked out by a throat infection - bubbles and antibiotics is never a good match...

Still, three years is a reason to celebrate. My blog has been the source of so much fun for me:

sharing process and results, learning by doing tutorials and swaps, being inspired by others and getting lovely feedback...

The blog as a journal of my creations and connections is also important to me. I tried printing my blog about a year into this adventure. It's different from the blog. More like reading a diary. Since then I order a copy every 6 month - spring and fall issues...

Here they are - my quilting chronicles:

Thank you all for your nice contributions. They are cherished a lot!

; )