The first one I'll show you is one that I posted an Electric Quilt picture of in the design stage. It was a really enjoyable project and I made it up as I went along. I pretty much started with the size of a block and then decided what to do with it as I went along. I wanted to use some of the beautiful rose fabric that I loved, so some of the blocks are just a piece fabric. This is what I ended up with.
I am very happy with the way it turned out. I ended up not doing the pieced borders that I had originally wanted to do, but I found this border fabric at a quilt show and really liked it, so decided to use it instead. I'll probably bind it in green. I also pieced the back with the leftover fabrics. I ended up doing 10 inch squares and used up most of the extra fabrics that I didn't want to save for other projects, with some smaller sized pieces and scraps added to the "Fabric for appliqué" bin. I plan on hand quilting it.
Another quilt that I finished the top of is one that I was inspired to create after helping my friend put together some vintage sunbonnet Sue blocks that her grandmother had made. I loved the simplicity of the vintage Sunbonnet Sue's as opposed the the more modern version of a Sunbonnet Sue quilt I had made previously. I did a miniature version of it, however, each block being only 5 inches square. Now I need to figure out what to do for the back. I'm trying to not buy more fabric (ya right!), so I think I'll try piecing something, but not sure what yet.
My latest project is from a pattern by Lori Smith. I don't purchase many patterns because I enjoy designing my own, but I absolutely love her patterns and just had to have one. Here's a photo of the pattern. I did enlarge the blocks a little, and I'm pretty sure I'll do something different for the border, and maybe add some sashing too. I'm also using civil war reproduction type fabrics.
Here are the first two blocks that I've finished.
I added the little spot of color in the center of this one. It just needed a little something.
My next project is going to be a quilt for my granddaughter. I purchased a panel of small Hello Kitty pictures and am in the process of coming up with a design. The last time I was with her, I was showing her some quilts on Pinterest to see what she liked (she's 4 by the way). She loved the ones with bright pretty colors, so this one will have lots of bright pretty colors in it. I plan on piecing it during a quilt retreat in October.
Other than that I only have one other quilt that is in the works. I was having some trouble with my choice of one of the major fabric colors and had a goodly amount of sashing pieces hand appliquéd and then decided I didn't like the shade of pink I'd used and decided to find a different one. The problem was that I used just two colors on these sashing pieces, green and pink, but the green stood out more, while the pink faded into the background. I needed them to be equal in tone, so ended up taking photos of various pink fabrics in my stash next to the green and then changed them to grays in my photo program so I could see only the tone. I found a solid pink that I think will be perfect. I had put a lot of time into making these pieces, but I knew I wouldn't be happy with it the way it was, so my perfectionism won out and I decided to redo them. It shouldn't take too long to unpick them.....
Happy Quilting!
