Curves on the Design Wall!

I have the blocks up sideways since my wall is wider than longer-but you get the idea.  

This quilt has 10 rows.  

All the green blocks and grey blocks are up there.  The rest, which I am still in the process of squaring up are the pink/red ones.  

I have used up all of the fabric and have made exactly 90 blocks.

I am not happy with the 5 darker grey blocks.  I had to add them from my stash as I didn't have enough of the lighter grey stripe to reach the 90 blocks.  You can see I made a green block from my stash as well, it's the far right bottom row of green ones.  It's a little too green but not enough to scream at me so it stays. 

The pattern shows a very random placement.  

I am going to compare this layout to a random arrangement and then if I like this better, I guess I'll have to go searching for some a lighter grey or grey stripe and swap out those 5 dreary solid reading ones.  

When I first started putting these up, I was doing it randomly but didn't like how it was looking; hence the change.

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This weekend I am going to the first meeting of a new small modern quilt group forming in my guild.  

The email asked us to bring whatever we might have to share.

So Modern Misfits is finally getting the binding finished.  

Nothing like a deadline to light a fire under my butt. 

 *grin*

Fun Times, fun times...

Life is Good.

Modern Misfits is quilted and I even have the binding sewn to the front!
The quilting is very dense and I love it.

and the pieced back.

The label is in there as part of the backing-so nice when I remember to do that.  

Today I finished the green Baby Life quilt I started last week. I even have the binding nearly done!

and here is the pieced back. I like it as much as the front (almost). 

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dresden pillow

has it's binding. 

I bought this book a few weeks ago.  

Thursday I loaded my Modern Misfits quilt, thinking that I was just going to put on the channel locks and straight line quilt it. 

I put the channel locks on and then had a nagging little noise in the back of my head.  I stopped and flipped through Angela's book for a minute. It was sitting right there...And then it came back to me, I had changed my mind and wanted to try these swirls w/pebbles that  she shows in the book.

oh I'm in l.o.v.e.  

It takes a little time and I have the quilt loaded longways so a row seems like it's going on forever, but now I'm almost 1/2 way done. I'm quilting with the lights off-the machine lights and most of the overhead lights.  The antique thread I bought for this quilt matches the background fabric so perfectly that I can't see it well enough with the lights on. I'm throwing in a random square or triangle or rectangle to break up the swirls.  I thought of this after it was loaded so I have no way of spacing them. 

I almost didn't do this but then thought heck it's a learning experience and it's a modern look I'm going for and...yada yada yada...Oh yeah, it's MY quilt!  

(why do I have these conversations with myself?)

I'm also not quilting swirls in the pieced blocks just the background.  I'm not sure what I'll do with those, will see when I get there. :)

modern misfits 68 x 95

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PENGUINS HOCKEY TODAY!!

FINALLY!!

The withdraw symptoms in this house have been awful.

fun times, fun times.

Life is good.

now I'm

binding and binding and binding.  

Almost done!

I made new kitchen curtains (toppers) on Monday.  They are from osenburg fabric and I love them.

   

I also quilted my Dresden pillow.

I was going to bind it too-love that look on a pillow but just wanted to get 'er done.

Now that a few days have passed, yes I do want to bind it.  I'm thinking a black binding, that I conveniently already have made.

I also had a not planned sewing session in which I pieced the backing for my Modern Misfits top

 I used leftover strips, chunks, some fat quarters etc.  And in pulling these out I had to re organize the ever-shrinking stash.

win-win.
One of these days soon I hope to empty these of their contents...strips chunks and sew new 'yardage' from them.

oh and another Baby Life quilt in the works, actually 2.  The other one is still just fused letters.  I do love this quilt pattern.  I've changed it a bit by just cutting the background piece in half (after adding a 1/2 inch for the seam!).  This way I only have to deal with half the fabric while machine blanket stitching those letters---that's a lot of fabric manipulation.  I don't think the seam will be distracting after it's been quilted.
I may even adjust the cutting of the next one further now that I have the size of the area where the words are.
I will wait and see how the blanket stitching goes on this one.

A morning trip to a quilt shop with Libby today. whoop-whoop.

piecing

blocks for this month guild meeting.  The tree is suppose to have crystals added.  I might do that later.  I like it plain.  I'm not big on embellishments.

The snow globe block is 12 inches the smaller one is 6 inches.  We only need to make one of the 12 inch block and as many as we want of the smaller 6 inch.  One was all I found time for. :)

This is block #4 for the Curve it Up quilt along.  It was much easier than I thought it was going to be.  

I got out this top to load and quilt-but I didn't have a thread color that matched.  Talk about getting picky!  I ordered an 'antique' thread today.  I want to do a dense all over on this and just want texture so I really wanted the thread to blend.

I still need to get a backing ready for this so it's no big deal really.  

I've quilted the last customer quilt until after the new year.  Which sounds like a long time but of course it's only a couple weeks away.  

I will not be getting the 3 quilt tops quilted that were on my goal list for 2012.  I'm a bit bummed about that but surely I will get them done in '13.