Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Lighthouses for Carla
I finished this quilt on Dec. 23, just in time to wrap for Christmas. The fabrics were found during this year's fall vacation in South Carolina. The quilt was made to hang on Carla's office wall. Merry Christmas, Yaya!
A Quilt for Baby Garcia
About two weeks ago (on Dec. 15) I finished this little quilt for Vanessa's upcoming baby boy 'bundle of joy.'
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Suggestions for our House Quilts
1. Fabric for houses: I have so much fabric, way too much, so what if I bring (to a lunch) lots of leftover fabric, solids and prints, and we each take half?
2. Fabric for garden blocks: let's buy some new fabric for these. (We can combine a G Street visit with a quick lunch maybe?) I suggest we use lots of greens, which will make them look a lot more like gardens than the pinks and purples shown in the picture.
3. Fabric for borders: The two outside borders can be one of our surprises to each other! We can use black for the sashing borders (I may have enough black fabric for both of us). And we can surprise each other with the choice of fabric for the little squares at the corners of each block -- sashing squares let's call them.
4. Piecing house blocks. I'll make templates for both of us, which will be super-easy because each house is made up of 3" squares and triangles.
5. Piecing for garden blocks: I'll also make a template for the garden blocks. We each need just one 6 x 2" rectangle, plus the seam allowance.
6. Windows and chimneys can be appliqued onto the finished blocks. Let's use black for all of those.
7. Optional surprises: clouds, suns, moons, and birds can be added to each house block -- or not.
Procedure: we each make 12 garden blocks and 12 house blocks. Then we give each other 6 of each, and ...well, then we put them all together! With our surprise borders and backing and binding.
What did I forget?
2. Fabric for garden blocks: let's buy some new fabric for these. (We can combine a G Street visit with a quick lunch maybe?) I suggest we use lots of greens, which will make them look a lot more like gardens than the pinks and purples shown in the picture.
3. Fabric for borders: The two outside borders can be one of our surprises to each other! We can use black for the sashing borders (I may have enough black fabric for both of us). And we can surprise each other with the choice of fabric for the little squares at the corners of each block -- sashing squares let's call them.
4. Piecing house blocks. I'll make templates for both of us, which will be super-easy because each house is made up of 3" squares and triangles.
5. Piecing for garden blocks: I'll also make a template for the garden blocks. We each need just one 6 x 2" rectangle, plus the seam allowance.
6. Windows and chimneys can be appliqued onto the finished blocks. Let's use black for all of those.
7. Optional surprises: clouds, suns, moons, and birds can be added to each house block -- or not.
Procedure: we each make 12 garden blocks and 12 house blocks. Then we give each other 6 of each, and ...well, then we put them all together! With our surprise borders and backing and binding.
What did I forget?
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Next quilt. What will it be?
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| [when I'm on my PC instead of my laptop I'll turn these pictures around] |
Houses. Made from squares and triangles and rectangles. Maybe we could both use the same fabric for the front doors or the roof of each house. Or both. Or the border. Or the windows. But the rest of the fabric choices (and house styles??) would be different.
Idea Two:
Log Cabin. We could each use the same fabric for .... something -- the light colors? the dark colors?... half of each? -- and then surprise each other with the rest. Or we could arrange them differently. You get entirely different looks for turning each Lob Cabin square a different way during assembly.
Older ideas that I still like:
- round robin
- block of the month
Friday, February 7, 2014
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