Interesting, and in our local sporting team colours.
The blocks are all 9P blocks and simpler to put together than they look.
I think my favourite of these two designs is the second one, but don’t quote me on that!
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Interesting, and in our local sporting team colours.
The blocks are all 9P blocks and simpler to put together than they look.
I think my favourite of these two designs is the second one, but don’t quote me on that!
read moreIt's time for the annual Dust Off An Old Quilt Book Blog Hop! I have been participating the last few years and have always enjoyed it.
I have been participating the last few years and have always enjoyed it.
I like it … lots of room for quilting!
Big question … red or white thread? Or a mixture?
Design number 50 in the project file, but it is one short of 50 blocks.
read moreI have finished the Red and White Hourglass quilt for the Project Quilting challenge for this week . The challenge is to make a quilt that is inspired by an hourglass. It must be started and finished in one week.
I've actually wanted to make a red and white hourglass quilt for a long time, years. I saw one in a museum and the docent would not allow me to take a photo of it, even though it is a simple traditional pattern. I drew it out and shaded in the red parts so I would remember what it looked ...
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Winter sport finals are happening all around the country, and the local clubs have some teams in the grand finals today, and wearing red and white.
Also our state quilters guild is celebrating their ruby anniversary next year, and calling for red and white quilts for the exhibition. The hardest part of two colour quilts is to find a good selection of prints with a good match of the colours, so I would be looking for designs with as few fabrics as possible.
The second design would work with a limited number of red, red and white, and probably a ...
read moreI was going about my merry way, planning today's post to say I have been quilting for the last two weeks but have nothing to show for it. Just cutting some scraps, organizing the sewing room, finishing quilting Boundless.
I even figured I could show you my library stack to keep the post from being too boring. I went to the main library recently and gathered these books.
Then I thought, is Project Quilting over? And sauntered my way to the website to find out. Nope, there is one last project, and it is due in three hours! I ...
read moreThen I saw the challenge and I was ...
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I present to you my mini quilt of the month. It is based on a class I took from the Dayton Art Institute about Op Art. I decided to translate it to cloth. I took red fabric and cut out the parts I wanted to be white.
I had tried to add blue underneath, and didn't really like the way it looked so I took out the blue. But since I quilted it days after I posted it on the blog, Tanya said she did like the blue. I thought about it, and remembered that I did like the ...
I recently told you about a recent class I took Dayton Art Institute where you made a drawing to replicate the style of Julian Stamczak.
I wanted to replicate this style in fabric. Just the simple one with straight vertical lines and curvy horizontal lines, or vice versa - and not the diagonal lines shown in the index card.
My original plan was to strip piece two sets of fabric, The strips of straight lines would need two sets of exact opposite colors. Then they could be cut and the wavy lines would be cut and sewn together the way I ...
read moreThe Color It Red blog hop is over now, but some of you may still want to see some more red quilts. If you missed my red quilt, you can see it Red and White Portrait with Yo-Yo Trim. Here are some red quilts I have made. They are all small quilts - too small to use as lap quilts. They are all taken with the same background - living room floor, so you may be able to estimate the size.
Lately, I have been enjoying seeing my quilts in different combinations - like a curator in a museum.