This and That

I have been making lots of quilt tops and baby quilts since September. Not a lot of pictures to show, but progress is happening. I recently added 10 more quilts to my Etsy shop. Other than a slight uptick in views, no sales lately. I thought that maybe with the big 25% off sale I might sell one, but no.

I decided not to participate in the Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt “Good Fortune” this year, I had a lot going on in the beginning of December, so adding lots of pieces to sew together wasn’t going to work for me. I didn’t really like the colors picked, not that they were bad, I am just not a fan of orange. I thought maybe once the reveal came out I could rework it in EQ with different colors, not to share though. It seems that someone did this exact thing on the Facebook site and Bonnie was ticked off. I don’t blame her, it’s her design after all. I do find it amusing to read through the comments from other quilters about how terrible this person is and “How dare they!” etcetera. I sincerely doubt the EQ artist was trying to upset anyone, probably trying to do what I just mentioned doing above, but erred by posting her re-do to 77 thousand members. Oopsie.

I’m working on a new black and white quilt. I have two rolls of 1 ½ inch wide Kona cotton, one black and one white. I purchased 3 additional yards of Kona white to match, because I never seem to have the same shade of white. I have 15 yards of Moda Bella white, but not the same white as the Kona. I started out making a few nine patches, cute 3 inch finished blocks. Then I thought I would make a “Jacks Chain” quilt, like this fullsizeoutput_135

Simple and it would be fun to quilt. I ditched the idea after doing one block, there was much ripping and resewing and misalignment. No fun. Then I made some plus blocks, I recently got the book Modern Plus Sign Quilts by Cheryl Brickley and Paige Alexander. But it seems that those quilts sing because of the colors, the black and white just didn’t. Then I thought of a quilt that Sarah at Confessions of a fabric addict made recently. It was called “Summer Wedding” by Jamie Elfert at Black Cat Creations. Sarah made it for her granddaughter in blues and white. You can see it here Can I get a Whoop Whoop?

I started thinking about using the plus signs instead of the H’s. A few hours later, I came up with this

plus quilt

I think I’ll start it tomorrow though. It’s a rainy weekend here in CA, and the boys are watching football, what else is there to do?

I have been working on my Forest Floor quilt. I put it on the frame last Wednesday, I am quilting it with designs from Wastach quilting. I first saw the designs back in March 2018, as part of the monthly Masters design pack. I looked up the quilt and decided to make it. It took me a few hours to track down all the batik fabrics, as they were from the previous year. Once they got here with the pattern, I made the top.

This picture was taken before the final borders were added, so imagine a six inch additional border to finish the quilt at 106 inches square. The quilting patterns are floral and leaves with pine cones and pine needles, plus starbursts and other fills. I thought I had some pictures but I guess not.

I have been diligently working on the Christmas Figs BOM. Here are my blocks so far:

I do two blocks a month, they are about 12 inches square, so its going to be a big quilt too.

Lastly, I just sent out this cute Fox in the Birches quilt for my Mother’s cousin’s new grandson. I can’t imagine how he is related to me, just some kind of cousin. The pattern is by Sew Fresh Quilts and you can get it from her shop on Etsy. She has lots of cute things, take a look!