Blogger's Quilt Festival - Spring 2013

Woo Hoo! Its festival time - Blogger's Quilt Festival!  This festival is definitely a favorite for me as there is so much quilty inspiration.  The difficult choice is deciding on which quilt to enter. 

I chose to enter my Wonky Circles into the Art Quilt category.

Wonky Circles

Size:  27 x 27 inches square

Quilted:  Hand quilted by myself

 

This mini was made recently as part of the monthly Le Challenge.  It is made with Kona solids and is hand quilted using red thread in concentric circles about 1/2 inch apart.  This quilt was not marked, just quilted kinda free form.

 

The quilt was finished with a facing binding method.  The binding is on the back side of the quilt and there are no visible binding stitches on the front side.

 

Here is a close up of the corner.

 

 

Please check out all the other entries at Blogger's Quilt Festival.

 

 

 

 

And, just for fun, my previous entries:

 

Fall 2012: Stretch

Spring 2012: Busting Out

Fall 2011: Civil War quilt

 

Le Challenge - Wings

It's time for this month's Le Challenge.  The theme is "wings" and I have to admit that when I heard this, I was really stumped.  I knew that I wanted something graphic and kinda a continuation of last month's "geometric" theme.

 

This mini is inspired by airplane wings and finished at 17 x 15. 

I started by googling "wing shape" and was amazed at how much stuff is out there.  Everything that I saw, I kept thinking - how can I break this down further and make it more basic.  In the end, I tried to mimic the angle of an airplane wing.

 

Putting the top together was the easy part, but settling on a quilting design took days.  I decided to quilt wavy-ish lines while stitching at high speed.  I wanted a feel of air movement over the wings.

 

Please check out the other "wings" inspired creation at Le Challenge. 

 

Fresh Sewing Day - May

It's the beginning of a new month and its time to review my makes for April.

• Worked on projects from Craftsy classes
• Wonky circles mini finished for the monthly Le Challenge.  This month's challenge is wings.
• Marcelle medallion block started
• More triangles galore blocks made
• Blocks made for Quilts for Boston. 

 Linking to the Fresh Sewing Day at Lily's Quilts.

Design Wall Monday - Quilts for Boston

I am continuing working on creating quilt blocks for Quilts for Boston.  There are many creative quilt blocks in the Flickr group.

 

I have found that I don't have much yellow in my stash and really don't use it.  So I am putting "making something yellow" on my to-do list.
 

 

I think that these asterisks blocks go together quite quickly.  The pattern is from the Craftsy 2012 Block of the Month class.

Linking to Design Wall Monday and the Lets Get Acquainted link up.

Finish it Friday - Quilts For Boston

This week I lamented that I had so many WIPs and I needed to focus on getting them completed.  Well, everything came to a stop when I read that the Boston Modern Quilt Guild is requesting blocks to assemble into Quilts For Boston.

There are a few requirements and the details are listed on their blog.  Basically, its a block made with the colors white, yellow, blue or gray in any combination.  There is also a Flickr group set up to share your blocks.

 

I found that I don't have much yellow in my stash, but I did open a fat quarter bundle that had all shades of blue.  I have finished several improv blocks and I think the next block will be a wonky house.

 

There is a quick turn around time and all blocks must be received by May 24th.  I hope to see your blocks in the Flickr group soon!

 

 

 

 

Linking today to Finish it Friday and to Whoop Whoop Friday.

Design Wall Monday - Marcelle Medallion

Oh, I have so many WIPs on my sewing table that I am beginning to feel like I am drowning in WIPs!

I have started the Marcelle Medallion quilt.  If you have been thinking about trying it but have been wondering if that star was a bit too advanced, I say go for it.  Triangles are my weakness, but I found that using the templates make it go together quite easily. 

The next row is equilateral triangles, and there are templates provided as well.  But I think I am going to try to create this row with paper pieced triangles.

Active WIPs

1. Monthly Le-Challenge mini - This month's theme is "wings".  The mini top is finished, just need to figure out how I am going to quilt it.
2. Spring Blogger's Quilt Festival - I am still debating on an entry.  I just don't think that the hand quilting will be completed on my very large quilt.  My fingers are very poked and sore right now.  This quilt may just have to wait till the Fall festival.
3. Modern Mini Challenge -  This was a great source of inspiration last year.  I may have a project in progress.  I am still thinking about it.
4. Scrap Attack QAL String Fever - I hope to create a mini, but I used up most all my scraps on my spider web quilt (which also needs quilting).
5. Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge - 3 lap quilts are completed and 1 child's quilt needs binding.
6. Craftsy - I love Craftsy, and have several modern mini's from the "Inspired Modern Quilts" class that need to be quilted.  I also want to make the lap size variation of these quilts.

Linking today to Design Wall Monday and to the Lets Get Acquainted Link-up.

Le Challenge - Geometrics

There is a new monthly challenge set up at Le-Challenge and today is the first link-up party.  This month's theme is "Geometrics".  When I saw the theme, I knew that I wanted to work with circles and that this was a great time to try out a block on my to-do list - wonky circles.

 

I used the wonky circles tutorial at How About Pink Please.  I hand quilted this using red thread in concentric circles about 1/2 inch apart.  I didn't mark this quilt, just quilted kinda free form.

 

It finished at 27 inches square and I am still thinking of a name.  My mother had the idea to use no visible binding and she finished the quilt with a facing binding method which I think was a good idea.  The binding is on the back side of the quilt and there are no visible binding stitches on the front side.

 

Here is a close up of the corner.

Check out this month's "Geometrics" entries at Le-Challenge. 

I can't wait to see the theme for next month.