Design Wall Monday (week 21)

My wall has been getting a work out!  I've been playing with the block-a-days blocks. 

Here is what is on the wall now. They are all 12" blocks that I used the same fabrics for.  I think I'm going to let it stay up and think about sashing and borders while I work on other stuff. The smaller block to the right will be a label for the back.  I played with EQ6 last night and made a sample quilt with 3 borders, if I knew how I could import a picture of it, but I haven't gotten that far in the lesson book. 

Honestly, I'm on lesson 6 and that got me to the point where I can put quilts together and make labels and I stopped moving forward in the workbook.  I need to re-focus on that.

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Here are a few pictures of other blocks that were on the wall this weekend too.

Not too sure about some of these blocks.  I wish now I would have been more aware of fabric and block size during the first few months of the bl-a-days.  Some of the blocks, that didn't make it on to the wall will most likely become incorporated into backings I'm sure!

16" + 8+

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And this is the 30 Civil War Repro 12" blocks that I have so far.  I thought I had 32, which is what I need for the on point layout I am thinking of using. It will be queen size and for my bed! I forget the final size something like 86x102. Obviously I've miscounted and still need to make 2 more.  I'm planning on a 1" sashing between the blocks and these are just randomly put up not a finally layout by any means:

I'm pretty happy with it and was bummed to have to take it down for now.

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And since I didn't get to post separately this week (I got side tracked) here are my block-a-days from May 31st through June 7.

Enjoy the other design wall at Judy's.

Blogger's Quilt Festival Spring 2010

This will be my 2nd Quilt Festival!  I was a new blogger for last Fall's festival.  It was a blast and took a good couple of days, maybe a week, to visit all the quilts, but I think I saw them all.  I almost didn't enter because I was afraid of "Mr Linky"!!

I've been changing the living room furniture around so that means the quilts get changed too.

I brought this one out for a couple months.

It's a Little Quilts pattern.  It measures 31" x 43".  I made it in 2003.  It is one of the last quilts (if memory serves me correctly) that I hand quilted.  I have an emotional attachment to this quilt that I can't really explain.

All I know is that I l-o-v-e it! 

It could be that many of the fabrics are from when I first started quilting in 1989!  I recognize and remember them...(how is that possible--when I can't remember what I wear to church from week to week?) 

The center block, "bear paw", is one of my all-time favorite blocks, the fabrics are "my kind of colors".  I remember I almost used a plain border  because I didn't want to tackle the set in seams on the bow tie blocks, (I don't think I'd ever done set in seams by machine before). I guess I didn't have trouble with them,  or they wouldn't be there --patience is a virtue that I'm sadly lacking :)

And this is truly a scrap quilt, my favorite kind!  I used blocks leftover from other Little Quilts that I had made and all the fabrics were from my stash.

 

So that's my entry.

Enjoy the rest of the quilts in the festival.

Check them out here.