This is one of my original design quilts I never tire of seeing. I won 1st prize Professional in the Jinny Beyer Patchwork Palette competition with it several years ago.
When I saw her first palette of 100 fabrics I got so excited I had to start a quilt with them. I worked on it over a period of years and finished it when the contest was announced.
It is pieced and hand appliqued. It is one of the last quilts I hand quilted.
The fabric I used for the 9 patches was one of my ugliest hand dyes ever.
Isn’t it amazing what happens when you cut up uglies and use them in small pieces?
The other fabrics are also hand dyed.
Note: It’s not really crooked…….it’s my photography!
Even though I am still committed to finishing quilts I am enjoying taking time to pin fabrics to the design wall to see how they play together.
These are some of the first fabrics I put up on the wall.
This is what I currently have on the design wall. I like all of these together but I certainly will have to work on the composition to make it work.
Of course I may not use all of them and may use others.
I want to make a decent size piece with these fabrics.
This is another pair of socks that just needed minor finishing. I knit several pair in lighter colors to wear when I am in Florida.
Of course the yarn is Sophie’s Toes from Emily Parson.
NO, I don’t work for her or receive a commission. I just love her yarn and the colorations. I probably have enough yarn for 20 more pair. I just couldn’t help myself. She also has the cleverest names for her colors.
I seem to be on a lime green journey recently.
As with all my socks they are Sophie’s Toes from Emily Parsons.
These were started months ago and finally finished.
I love wool socks all year around if and when I wear socks!
Since my priorities currently do NOT include creating new quilts, I can still experiment with arrangements on the design wall.
Possibly by the time I am free to create new work something will tell me it’s time to sew it together.
Here are some combinations and fabrics that are calling to me.
A possible group that might work together.
If you are a regular reader of my blog you may realize that these are just the beginning and the end results may or may not include one or more of these!
I am sharing the installation photos of the final two quilts in the guest room
Secret Circles – How many circles and you find?
………And Then The Centers Fell Out
These have been hung on the opposite sides of the bed!
We recently hung these two quilts in a guest room. They are between the door where you enter the room and the closet.
They are visible to anyone who is either in bed or sitting in the red chair.
I have just been notified that a kit for the quilt I designed for Kaufman Fabrics is now available from Keepsake Quilting.
Here is the information from their catalog as well as a link to it:
Speckled prints with color shading make this quilt special.
Kit has piecing directions, binding fabric and precut 2 1/2" strips.
• Quilt Size: 70" x 70"
• Project: Pieced
• Project rating: Intermediate
Price:
$ 89.99
Part Number:
5251
Status:
In Stock
http://www.keepsakequilting.com/productdetail/5251.htm#
What a reasonable price for a large quilt that is already cut for you. It’s not to soon to start making gifts for your favorite people!
This is the quilt I designed with the Pointillist Palette fabrics from Lunn Fabrics. I know many of you have been waiting for it.
I GET NO COMMISSION OR FINANCIAL REWARD FROM YOUR PURCHASE OF THIS KIT FROM ANY PLACE. I JUST GET THE JOY OF KNOWING PEOPLE ARE MAKING A BEAUTIFUL QUILT WITH AN EXCITING GROUP OF FABRICS.
When I finished this I didn’t think I had any place to show it. I said that same thing to my friend Shelly.
After she left I thought it might work over the TV cabinet. I measured it and it would fit.
When Greg was visiting last weekend he hung it for me as well as 4 others in the guest room.
I had taken the glass pieces off the cabinet as I didn’t think they’d fit with it.
Because it was hung so high they worked perfectly.
Now anyone who is in the sunroom can enjoy this.
It’s a rare occurrence that both sons are in town at the same time.
We had an impromptu pizza dinner and get together this week.
Left to right: Jeff, Kierstin, Jeff Jr., Julie, Greg, Nicholas and Jared.
When the grandkids get this old it is next to impossible to get them all here at once so this is less than half of them.
I think I have somewhere between 5 and 10 million things in this house. Jeff needed a punch to punch another hole in his belt.
Amazing that I was able to find it right away. It was Grandma Sorensen’s. I sent it home with him and I told him to put it somewhere so in case I ever need it again I can borrow it.
Shortly after that Kierstin was surprised to find out her Grandpa Jerry got his masters degree from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. That is the school she will be starting her freshman year at this fall. I was able to find the picture of him in his robe and the graduation program for her in a short time too. Love the fact that I still have my memory!
After dinner several of us had our phones out and the grandkids gave me some cell phone lessons!
It’s always a good time when the family gets together.
My current priority is finishing some of my works in progress.
That does not mean I can’t play with my hand dyed fabrics between working on the quilts, company and other things.
These are a few fabrics I though might work in a composition.
This is one of my very favorite fabrics I’ve shibori dyed. It is only about 5 inches by 42 inches. I started another quilt with this fabric but it didn’t make the cut for the final composition.
Trying something else.
And one more!
Nothing is speaking to me yet, but I am only playing while I do other things. It’s all part of my process.
