Exuberant color

Exuberant Color

Even though I liked Beth's idea (in the comments yesterday) to make the last block lime green, that would have meant pulling out at least 16 pieces of lime fabric to cut one strip off and I already had black scraps ready to cut into strips. If time hadn't been a problem I might have done it, but I needed it done for my program tonight and didn't want to be working right up to the last minute. I might get the top and bottom background color strips sewn on yet today, but then maybe I won't. Do…

Thanks for all of the votes and suggestions yesterday. I have decided this is the way the quilt will be finished. Like I mentioned yesterday I have enough of the gray fabric already cut into strips to make all new alternate blocks so it wasn't a decision of how to fix the blocks that were already sewn. In the end I just didn't want to come up with a quilting design for the alternate plain blocks and this version will be easy to quilt. I will be able to cut 2 sashing strips from each of the…

I decided to use the already prepared circles for the centers of the daisies. I sewed them on by machine with invisible thread and a narrow...

A lot of readers mentioned that they wanted to know more about working with value. Here is the way that I teach it: Choose your assortment of fabrics. Move the light fabrics to the left and the dark fabrics to the right. All of the ones left down the middle are medium tones. Now divide the mediums into lights and darks and keep them together at the bottom of your area. Now this picture is what you don't want to do. You don't want your lightest lights with the darkest darks because that…

I have only made C and D blocks so far for this second "Fractured" quilt. This gives a different center than with A and B blocks added. Click on the Fractured Quilt Along logo on my right side bar to see what everyone else is doing. Meanwhile I have added 21 new pieces to this quilt, 3 each of 7 sets of fabrics. This still has the rectangular center. In the photo below I turned pieces to make a square center. I think I like the rectangular one better but I have plenty of time to decide. I…

"Memories - 1956" is finished, just a couple months after I made the quilt top. The gray dotted fabric is a Kaffe Fassett fabric, "Spot", the pinks are Kaffe's and Tula Pink's fabrics. It is 64.5" x 76.5". The backing fabric is by Kaffe Fassett also. The batting is Hobbs 80/20 and it was quilted by my longarm friend, Robin. I think the stripe with flowers worked really well for binding. It is also a Kaffe fabric. I just realized I didn't rotate this photo. I hadn't checked the tomato plants…

I cut all of the strips for the next 13 blocks and sewed them yesterday. The blocks will finish at 8" so this would be 40" x 56" at this point. It would take 13 more blocks to add one more row in both directions for a quilt 48" x 64", still pretty small. I have to decide how much I love making these blocks to see where this goes. I did a search on my blog to see when I started working with the stripes. Here is the post and I wonder where those 2 blocks on the right are because they aren't in…

There wouldn't be anyway to convince some people that a stash is necessary. They will only buy for a project and are at the mercy of the lim...