Hey look! My Gate at the Lake quilt is featured in this fun treasury on Etsy today.
Good times.
Blue Friday Treasury on Etsy
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She did it again…
Here’s ANOTHER Positive Space quilt! I COULDN’T RESIST.
This one is actually smaller than any of the sizes featured in the pattern. I really wanted to use Moda Crossweaves for the squares, but there aren’t that many in the line! I used every option I could get my hands on and still had to fake two squares with imposter fabrics in order to have 16 blocks.
The orange in the upper right is actually this random cotton cheese-cloth type fabric I had laying around that I layered over a different solid orange. The blue beneath it is a quilting cotton blender pattern that has the look of denim, but works as a fake-crossweave here.
A little visual interest, adding some of the backing white fabric to the front.
I love the binding – transitioning plum to maroon to red. The thicker binding has a nice framing effect.
This quilt is being submitted into the Negative space category for QuiltCon. I’m not sure if that’s the perfect category, but it seemed like an bit of a kismet option, considering this pattern’s name.
Cloud Quilt Mini
I was SO in love with THIS QUILT I just made, I just couldn’t resist making one extra block, which I set aside to make into a mini.
I was very inspired by the book, “Free Motion Quilting with Angela Walters” – so I took this tiny opportunity to experiment with more elaborate quilting.
Ready to hang
This mini is entered into Brenda’s For the Love of Solids contest, over on Threadbias.
And then I’m going to enter it into the QuiltCon challenge for mini quilts! Wish me luck!
Filed under Challenges, Quilting
Cloud Quilt
I’ve been doodling clouds for a while now, dreaming of quilt designs. Finally, after reading Cloud Atlas, I grabbed all of my blues, whites, and greys, and started sewing!
I was very inspired by these images…
Cloud Song quilt from Little Bits Quilting Bee
I opted for going with my gut and pieced the blanket in an improvisational manner. Once I had my twelve clouds, I added a border (with a little flashy detail).
I backed the quilt with this fabric, which is such a sweet match.
And then I started quilting! Inside the clouds I added little white-threaded quilting clouds.
In the blue I just went with a meandering breeze.
I’m entering this quilt in the QuiltCon Improvisation category. Wish me luck!
Filed under Inspiration, Quilting
A2MQG Quilt Show and Sale!
The Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild is having a sale tomorrow (11/15/2012), and I thought I’d just load up some images of the smaller items I made…
Fabric covered notebooks.
River Song TARDIS Notebooks! Inspired by Doctor Who.
Holiday gift bags with felt accent.
More holiday gift bags with felt accent. Some bags are made from fleece, others jersey, and some are a lightweight corduroy.
iPad cases (and some Kindle Fire cases, too!)
Faux Fur Pillows! How fun would these be on your couch? So snugly for the winter.
A Halloween Recap…
Even though I didn’t add to the Costume Party this year, I still made many costumes…
Oldest son went as a Cheetah…
And I was a “Safari Guy” on the lookout for Cheetahs…
Hubby was a hunky Paul Bunyan. (He pulled this together all by his self)… With Son #2 being “Babe the Blue Ox” ! How cute is this?
Made this for my niece Kylie!
It’s “Boo” from “Monster’s Inc”…
And for my friend Irene… a chicken costume!
Bok bok!
Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and are happily looking forward to joyous Thanksgiving!
“Over-Under Bite”
Here’s a quilt that’s been done for a while but has taken a bit to get featured on the blog:
I call it the “Over-Under Bite” quilt. At first, I was planning on just calling it the Under Bite. But that was when I had this sketch and intended to make a quilt that fit the picture:
Why did I think I wanted the base of the triangle to be 6 inches when I wanted the quilt to be ~50 inches wide? These are the unsolved mysteries.
I thought the “Over-Under” name would better reflect the gamble that always takes place when I try and turn a diagram into a quilt : )
The original idea for this quilt just came from a desire to find a fitting pattern for this fabric. I don’t know what it is about this stuff, but I just love it. The saleswoman said it would make for an attractive binding – she’s right, but I wanted to feature it more prominently. So I drew some bold triangles, reflecting the geometric nature of this pattern, and paired the burnt orange with some bold purplish/blue and laid it all on top of a geometric beige print.
The mustard yellow border is Robert Kaufman Gold Ultra Sateen.
Check out the random purple/orange be-speckled fabric I found from my stash. Works great in the binding!
Pieced back was pieced in a piecing fashion.
It measures 60″ x 60″ and is available in my Etsy shop.
Round Robin
I’ve never done a quilting bee before, so I’m very excited that the Ann Arbor Modern Quilting Guild has decided to start a Round Robin!
Photo courtesy of Rossie – http://r0ssie.blogspot.com/
I made the block on the left and included some more of the Silent Cinema (grey pattern) and the Kona Snow fabrics. Rossie added some modern touches, much to my delight! I’m hoping it’ll end up having the look of a modern medallion quilt, rather than a sampler, but I know it’ll be great no matter what.
My block was inspired by this quilt.
This is the block I got in the first round:
Isn’t the center swirl lovely? Kourtney made that out of 1.5″ finished squares! So precise and beautiful movement. I just added the green border and the next border of white with pink corners. I wanted to frame the swirl and then give the next person some negative space as a clean slate ready for her additions.
Filed under A2MQG, Challenges, Fabric, Inspiration, Quilting
Positive Space QAL – Finishing the Quilt
Wow! You did it! : )
The pattern sets you free here, leaving you to piece the backing and binding with fabrics of your choice.
Here’s the back of my quilt! I wanted it to stay masculine so I used these fun strips. I also knew it’d do a nice job of complimenting my white-straight-line quilting.
If you are new to quilt-basting, let me please refer you to these great, free tutorials:
• Spray and Pin-Basting Tutorial from That Girl, That Quilt:
http://www.thatgirlthatquilt.com/2010/12/basting-tutorial.html
• Pin Basting from Red Pepper Quilts:
http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2009/06/basting-and-batting.html
• Spray Basting from Film in the Fridge:
I absolutely love spray basting. I will never, ever go back to pin basting as I have had much better results with this method – not to mention that it is QUICK. Here’s my quilt all laid out, happily basted on my living room floor.
Think you can’t quilt this on your home machine? I say hogwash! For this quilt, you can get a great look by doing simple straight-line quilting. Here’s what I did:
I carried these lines all the way to the edge of the quilt. In fact – the only places I marked the quilt-top were in the outside borders, making sure my lines stayed straight. Other than that, I just used the corners of my pieced squares as guides as I sewed!
Looking at the above diagram, I first sewed the red diagonal lines. I rolled up my quilt (it’s a Queen-size) from opposite corners so that the middle of the quilt (on a diagonal) was what was left exposed. I like to start in the middle to tackle the most difficult part first. Once I get the absolute centers of the quilt done, I know that the bulk in the neck of my machine will just get smaller as I go. So I do my center “Red” line, and then head to the outside. I flip the quilt around and do the next center-most “Red” line and head out to the other side. Then I flip the quilt, re-roll, and do the same method for the “Blue” lines. Then I re-roll and do the “Green” lines, starting in the center and working to one side, then flipping it around and going from the center to the other side. I re-roll and do the “Orange” lines doing the same center-out process. Then I have a glass of wine!
So here’s my quilt! All quilted! All square! It just needs binding. I’m going to use this fabric – snazzy!
If you are new to binding a quilt, let me please refer you to his great tutorial:
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2008/10/binding-tutorial.html
or this one!
http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2009/11/binding-tutorial.html
You’ll have to excuse me for not having a finished, binded quilt picture to show you. I have other deadlines I need to pursue! But thank you all SO MUCH for following along, regardless of when you’ve found these blog posts.
Please post pictures to the flickr group – or link to your blog in the comments – so I can OOO and AHHH over your beautiful projects!
All the best!
Filed under Pattern, Quilt Along, Quilting
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