Catching Up and Digging In

Today I bring you photographic evidence of the list I wrote in the post below. Herewith I present my quilts ...

Kittens & Posies - the orange inner border is a bright orange silk velvet and the spokes (leaves) are made from silk chiffon backed with fusible interfacing for stability.

Artful Rag Quilt - Black Flannel with b&w prints and a variety of colors. Lots of fun and learning.

Ticker Tape Doll quilt for a niece. These are so easy, bright and fun to make.



Quilt I made and designed to celebrate my parents 50th anniversary. I sent out squares of hand-dyed fabric with gel pens for important people to trace their hands and write a special message for my parents inside. I cut out the hand "prints" and appliqued them to the quilt top.


Here is a detail of the hands ...

The back of a rag quilt I made for my niece when she graduated from high school.  I never did get a photo of the front.  She immediately named this quilt, "The Babymaker" so it shall be called :) 

 Another niece who graduated from high school and her quilt.  It was a busy year :)  This quilt is called Lady of Lake Champlain because this niece spends quite a bit of time on Lake Champlain.  The quilt design is Marcia Hohn's Lady of the Lake 2 from her Quilter's Cache.

It's Been A Really, Really Long Time

Judging from the content here on my blog, I've been dormant. Nothing could be further from the truth! I've been really busy ... quilting. Teaching. Friending (is that a word?). Parenting. Etc.

I've finished and distributed several of the quilts listed on that list in my previous post. I've started (and finished!) some additional quilts. I created a studio. I've learned a lot.

Here's a brief list of the quilts I've finished in the last year and a half ...

Kaffe Snowballs
Amber's Graduation Memories
Tristan's Rags
Kittens & Posies
A Scrap quilt for Miriam
Lady of Lake Champlain (Leah)
The Baby Maker (Aleana)
Orient Express (Lauren)

I think there were more ... but that's all I can remember off the top of my head.

Projects I'm Working On

UPDATED - October 25, 2011
Here's a list of all the projects I have going ... far too many, but I hope to reduce this number by quite a bit this year.

WHIMMs
Ocean Waves
Blue Hydrangeas
Aunt Grace kit
Stained Glass Phoenix
Alphabet Kit

Callahan Baby Quilt

Sonja’s T-shirts

WIPs
Pete & Jackie’s applique wedding quilt
Venice Rose
Lillie’s butterflies
Judy Niedermyer Double Wedding Ring

UFOs (ready to be quilted)

Posies & Kittens (Ana Lucia) - finished

Multi-Ethnic Baby Quilt

Amber’s Album Quilt - finished

Irish Chain
Lillie’s Butterflies

Kaffe Snowballs - finished

UFOs (some blocks done)
1930’s Pinwheels & Snowballs
Delectable Mountains
Ohio Stars (HBS-exchange)
Anvils (set with borders)

Orient Express - finished

Album Blocks
Dear Jane
President’s Blocks
Ross’ T-shirts
Tapestry Garden

UFOs (vintage rescues)
Vintage double wedding ring (add border & handquilt)
Vintage Lone Star
Molas from Panama

GARMENTS
Prom dress for Taylor Andersen
Grecian dress for Lillie
Sashiko jacket
Burda top & skirt
slip dress & jacket

UFO = UnFinished Object
WHIMM = Work Hidden In My Mind
WIP - Work In Progress (one that takes a while)

I've joined a yahoo group called StashBusters to help with this and for now, here are a couple baby quilts that are going to be the first to get finished. And the Snowballs? They have a date with the quilter at the end of April so that I can have them all finished by my birthday!

Desdemona's Top Is Finished

At long last ... it is finished!!

Photos later

Ugly Challenge

So the Prez issued a challenge. She got tired of hearing us all piss and moan about fabrics we "hate."

Oh I can't use "that," we all say ... it's too yucky. So she told us all to get a fat quarter of something we hate and bring it in to our meeting on Monday. Tell everyone what's so horrible about it ... then do something with it to make it un-horrible. More palatable, I think was what she said.

Here are the fabrics Jennifer and I chose:

Jenn's is from Robyn Pandolph's Empress Woo's line (which we normally love):


Ross says it looks like faded wallpaper in the diningroom of an old house from the 1920's ... I say it looks like an old hobo stumbled into that dininroom and took a pee on the wall. Jenn says we're both right. UGH!

No one had anything to even say about this ... it just made us all shudder:




Really! Who makes confectionary cupcakes into fabric. I think I might puke. But that might improve it. Double UGH!

Pathways of Peace - the final version

I never posted the end photo of what my challenge quilt looks like. Here it is for all posterity:

Baby Quilts ... gotta love 'em

Ohhh ... there's not much I love more than planning a new baby quilt. Truly ... they just jazz me.

So I've got a new one in the works ... it's based on this:




I'll be using fabrics primarily from Native Arts by Robert Kaufmann ... because they just feel like the right mix for this particular baby, the culture s/he'll be coming from and growing into.