Saturday, February 16, 2013

Blocks

A few blocks to share. First, two Drunkard's path blocks as part of Curves Class. These really were not too hard, though making a whole quilt out of them would be a challenge! The original project was potholders, but I think I will turn these into mug rugs instead.




Last night I pieced these two star blocks from my scraps. My Guild requested 12" (finished) star blocks in red, white, and blue for Quilts of Valor. Any star we wanted, any shades of red white and blue. So I pulled out my Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop for Quilters book since all the blocks are designed to be 12" and they have a whole section on stars. I decided to try the 8 point star, partly because I like how it looks and partly because I already had red white and blue scraps cut to the right sizes ;). I think they turned out pretty nice.



Enjoying the sunshine and the break from winter storms this weekend...starting to look forward to spring already!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Irish Chain-Finished!

Finished my Irish Chain wall hanging over a month early-booyah! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I don't think my piecing was so bad considering all those tiny squares! I don't know people have the motivation or patience to make an entire bed quilt like this. Seriously. So. Many. Squares.


I really debated how to quilt this one. It seems like I usually wind up quilting some kind of diagonal intersecting lines, and I was bored with that. But in the end, I didn't feel like anything else (that I could actually execute) fit well with this traditional pattern. So there it is. It's now hanging where my advent quilt was...yes, the holidays are over. I'm usually brought to that conclusion kicking and screaming every year because I hate facing the long winter months after Christmas. We finally took our tree down two weeks ago...hey it still happened in January-that's progress for me!

 I started a new quilt over the weekend and made good progress on it. Unfortunately I can't share any more on that yet, it's a top secret project to be revealed late ;). Have a good day!