Featherstone Quiltworks

I love Mondays — when I have something new to share on my design wall.  Today?  One repeat, two new.  The repeat first:  My design wall is totally dominated by JudyL’s Freeze Frame.  The border made up of boxes in boxes needs to be sewn together, then sewn on, along with three more borders. This quilt is all from stash except for the buttery gold fabric.  I don’t remember the finished measurements, but it will be something like 80 x 100″.  Thank you, Judy, for sharing your patterns!

Here is the little centerpiece mat for our crayon challenge at guild tonight (where my colors are yellow and orange).  The pattern is from a kit I bought at Rosebud’s Cottage at the state fair; the fabric is from stash:

And finally is my first turned-edge hand-stitched applique that I’m doing in the class at Quilt Cove:

This piece is 16″ x 20″, and it’s from a new Lori Smith book (all 16″ x 20″ wall hangings in the book).  I love the interest the pieced border gives, although I didn’t love doing it.  The little blocks finish at 2″.  The applique was surprisingly fun.  Yes, I said FUN.  Who knew?  I always thought applique was a four-letter word.  No, I’m not ready to tackle a queen-sized appliqued quilt, and probably never will be.  It’s just nice to know that I now have the “tools” to do this.

Another note on this little wall hanging.  I used a different border from the book.  This pattern had a border using some long strips for the first borders and I made this from a Moda Gypsy Rose layer cake (10″ squares), so I wouldn’t have had the longer fabric pieces.  Besides, I loved the look of this border!

And don’t you love the pre-cuts (jelly rolls, layer cakes, charm packs, etc.) when you need a variety of coordinated fabrics but don’t need much of each?  And a bonus:  this layer cake was in my stash!  Stash busted!!!

Click here to visit JudyL’s site and see what other people have on their design walls this week.

–Sue