July 2008

Circles quilt with Amy Butler’s Belle collection.

Modern florals, paisleys, and stripes in a lush rainbow of colors get swirled and mixed together in a flock of whirlpools making up this eclectic quilt.

(Sean has been writing my descriptions lately.  I think they are rather humerous.)

Wacky Park Slope Quilt.

A wild jumble of lines and colors give this quilt a certain boisterous energy. The “mod” squares give the illusion of depth and at the same time almost seem to vibrate, as though they’re trying to break free of the fabric and skitter across your living room.

Fabrics from Erin McMorris’ Park Slope collection. Binding is a pink floral swirl. Backing is a brown poppy dot floral. Quilted in a freehand zig zag pattern.

33 blocks and 2 triangles.  Currently 7 behind the group.

80 bazillion pieces later…

Farmer’s Market Squares Quilt on Etsy.

This colorful quilt glows with a cheerful summertime vibe. Playful shades of red, green, purple, blue and pink from Sandi Henderson’s Farmer’s Market collection brighten up the traditional log cabin pattern, creating a lap quilt at home in any sunny setting.

Binding is a coordinating multi-colored stripe. Backed in an olive green and pink paisley pattern.

All done!  Enjoy Amy!

Not the best pictures since it got stormy outside and we couldn’t really do them in the rain and wind.

This project will be finished up next week with curtians and pillow shams.

Keep it?  Sell it?  Keep it…  Sell it… I’ve decided to keep it.  It’s just too perfect for our family room.  I’d take a picture of it in the room to show you but it’s turned pitch black outside with some lovely summer evening thunderstorms.  Tonight had better light!

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Baby Jane Fridays are back!

A simple block to get back into the swing of things. A couple weeks ago I switched from Windows to Linux and apparently during the switch my scanner has decided it doesn’t want to be a scanner anymore. Hopefully it will change its mind because these pictures are horrible. It still doesn’t really work.  Linux+Virtual Box+Windows+scanner=Broken.  Laptop+scanner=Not Broken.  So on Fridays the laptop gets to live upstairs I guess.

Apparently I can’t stop making blocks like this.  I love these colors and really want to keep it for the family room but it will probably end up in the shop sometime next week.

It’s like the crib quilt, just a lot (lot) bigger.

Time to pin, quilt and bind.

Trippy, bubbly, postmodern, whimsical (or maybe even poetic) quilt using Amy Butler’s Lotus collection and her new solids.

Words cannot explain the amount of fussy cutting/placing that went into this quilt.  When I started to point some of it out to Sean I think he thought I had completely lost it.

And on her bed.

I think she likes it.

So in case you find this in a Google search or just perusing around and you think you may want a quilt like this, I am (shockingly) willing to make it again.  You might just have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it though.

I still need to make the pillows, curtains and wallhangings.  I’ll post a picture of the whole room when I’m done.

Now that I’m done with the big part of this project, Baby Jane Fridays returns! Yay!

At least now it’s done. D - O - N - E. Done! DONE!

It’s in the wash now. Real pictures tomorrow.

Let’s not talk about how many hours I’ve spent on this in the past three days.  I hadn’t intended on spending that much time on it this weekend.  Oops.  Back to the huge pile of Etsy work tomorrow.

Eek!  So exciting.  All sewn together.

Taking a test drive on the bed.

And even a little quilting.

Eek!  It’s done!  I actually finished all the blocks.  Wow.  I never thought I’d be able to type that.

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White, Green.)

The crib quilt portion of the project is complete.  On to the full/queen quilt.

And today at 8:24pm she turns four.  She is such an amazing little girl with an amazing love for life (and Curious George).

A quick little stroll down memory lane.

Fresh.

One.

Two.

Three.

And four.

Happy Birthday to my little girl.

Smiling, cooperating, looking at the camera, not pulling each other’s hair…  It was a good day.

And a small sample of the blocks (sans blue) together.  I totally love it (which is good because it’s taken me about a bazillion hours so far).

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White.)