Four BIG thank yous to Judy Laquidara in this posting. The first is for hosting “What’s On Your Design Wall?” on Mondays. This is a great accountability idea, and a chance to take stock on a weekly basis (not weakly basis as was my previous practice) of my progress.
The second thank you, because I didn’t have a design wall before yesterday (I had a design floor and design table), and now I do have a design wall!
I borrowed a little wall space from the family room, which happens to be right outside my sewing room. I followed Judy’s lead and put up flannel with some poly batting underneath it, and secured the top to the wall board by push pins. I can easily take it down in case the Queen of England comes for tea and wants to see the house. (I can just picture her navigating the stairs to the lower level in sensible heels, clutching her handbag. . .-)
The nine-patches on the left are for CrazyMomQuilts’ quilt-along. 50 done, 40 to go, but they are all cut and waiting. I’m making mine just a little bigger than the original — 9 blocks x 10 blocks, with navy blue sashing / no border.
The signature blocks in the middle are a start of a throw-sized quilt. I have a total of 100 signature blocks, and this needs to be done for the reunion on the 27th of June. 2009.
The five Asian blocks on the right are for my guild’s block of the month, continuing through November. I need to have the next one done a week from now. I have all these blocks pre-cut so I don’t have too many decisions to make. This quilt will be for my lovely DIL.
Progress made this week:
Altered three shirts for my DIL, changing a shirt-tail hem to a straight hem.
Last week I gave a What’s on My Gammill report. It was a challenge quilt for Minnesota Quilters’ show in Duluth later this week. The challenge part is we could purchase a bag of four Ricky Tims fabrics, and we could add any other fabrics we desired, as long as we used recognizable amounts of the original four. No size restriction. Here is the finished product, The Great Origami Goose Chase (the center looks like stacked origami boxes to me, and probably to me alone; at least people will recognize the geese):
Here is the center with and without flash. With flash, the colors are more accurate. Without flash, you can see the quilting better:
And my third thank you to Judy is for inspiring me to get the EQ upgrade and do some designing of my own. This is my own design, for better or for worse, and it was a lot of fun to create something that’s totally my own. I think I’m hooked!
Okay, let’s go for four thank yous because Judy mentioned Patsy Thompson’s feather CDs on her post, I ordered them, watched as much as I had time for, and did these feathers in the stars. Can’t wait to sit down and watch both videos, beginning to end! I also decided the geese needed quilting:
I was so glad to have this quilt finished! I spent a lot more time on it than I had planned for, including enlarging it to make it twin-bed sized. It won’t be a winner (although I always have a chance for the randomly drawn prize), but it’s a lot of fun to look for something of your own at the show. And it’s amazing to see what different directions people take when given the same little bag of inspiration.
Wondering what the required fabrics were?
The lightest green flying geese, the purple in the center, the orange in the upper right, and the fourth fabric was a very multi-colored fabric from which I cut all five star centers (I did purchase extra).
Sue
