On Saturday, October 31, Bonnie Hunter announced the colors for this year’s Quiltville mystery quilt. When I saw them I immediately thought, now these are my colors! CC said the same thing when I showed them to him. The one exception is the grays which Bonnie says will comprise a lot of this quilt. I… Continue reading Grassy Creek quilt fabrics
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Unity Part 3
I finished piecing Unity Part 3 over the weekend (well, yesterday morning for the little solid border). I’m glad I decided to use different colors for the center squares, as I think they really liven up the quilt. It was pretty before (parts 1 and 2), but a little flat, to me. I logged on… Continue reading Unity Part 3
Ready for quilting
It’s ready to go to my longarm quilter, and I’m really pleased with the colors and how it looks. I think our friend Dave will like it. I picked out the flannel backing fabric (far right in the photo) at a local quilt shop last weekend, and it’s perfect (if I do say so myself).
Read the pattern!
I took yesterday off as a vacation day and spent some time working on the Scrap Crystals quilt. I might have gotten more done if I’d read the pattern instead of just glancing at it and making (incorrect) assumptions. The first thing I noticed was that I had chosen the incorrect size squares to make… Continue reading Read the pattern!
Lots of tiny scraps sewn together
Last weekend I really buckled down and worked on my Scrap Crystals quilt after our apron sewing was done. I just kept sewing those 4-patches to each other and ended up with a nice little stack of them. Then I separated those into 4 stacks and started piecing those together. I’ve made a few of… Continue reading Lots of tiny scraps sewn together