I haven't blogged the last few weeks but I have been busy.
I finished my paper piecing blocks for the November Queen of the bee group I am in.
I love the colours the Queen chose. This combination is so striking and will make a gorgeous quilt.
My fabrics are ready for the upcoming Bonnie Hunter mystery.
I am making this quilt with someone in mind and I think these colours will be just right for her.
And out of the blue I got the most incredible urge to make a low volume quilt.
Has that ever happened to you? All of a sudden you just HAVE to make something right here, right now?
"Low Volume" is the new buzz word going around and I love the quilts I am seeing. So I put everything aside and dug into my stash pulling anything and everything I thought would pass as low volume. Admittedly there are some fabrics in my blocks that are probably a bit too 'voluminous' but I really didn't want to buy more fabric. I think they are soft enough to blend with the overall serenity of the quilt so I am going with it.
I followed the pattern from Cheryl Arkison and Amanda Jean Nyberg's book Sunday Morning Quilts. This has to be one of my all time favourite quilting books and I plan to make every quilt in it, I just love them all.
I have moved some of the blocks around to get a better overall balance since taking this picture and if all goes well I will have this top together by the end of today.
And finally, I have been practicing free motion quilting on my Express Your Love quilt. I am WAAAAY behind on this project but with a month of holidays coming up it is on the top of my to do list.
This week I finished quilting the sun's 'rays' and the goddess body.
I apologise in advance for the terrible quality pictures. I took them at night which normally isn't too much of a problem as I usually enhance the pictures when editing them but for some reason my computer program would not let me increase the brightness this time. I will get better pics when I complete the next section.
I am disappointed that the light gold came out so much brighter than the medium and dark golds I used. When I lined the spools up next to each other I thought the 3 colours blended well but after quilting, well not so much. Hopefully when the whole thing is quilted it will blend a little better.
Here are a couple of close ups:
Far from perfect but it's all practice and I can see improvement so that is all I can ask of myself.
Until next time.
Sue
I finished my paper piecing blocks for the November Queen of the bee group I am in.
I love the colours the Queen chose. This combination is so striking and will make a gorgeous quilt.
My fabrics are ready for the upcoming Bonnie Hunter mystery.
I am making this quilt with someone in mind and I think these colours will be just right for her.
And out of the blue I got the most incredible urge to make a low volume quilt.
Has that ever happened to you? All of a sudden you just HAVE to make something right here, right now?
"Low Volume" is the new buzz word going around and I love the quilts I am seeing. So I put everything aside and dug into my stash pulling anything and everything I thought would pass as low volume. Admittedly there are some fabrics in my blocks that are probably a bit too 'voluminous' but I really didn't want to buy more fabric. I think they are soft enough to blend with the overall serenity of the quilt so I am going with it.
I have moved some of the blocks around to get a better overall balance since taking this picture and if all goes well I will have this top together by the end of today.
And finally, I have been practicing free motion quilting on my Express Your Love quilt. I am WAAAAY behind on this project but with a month of holidays coming up it is on the top of my to do list.
This week I finished quilting the sun's 'rays' and the goddess body.
I apologise in advance for the terrible quality pictures. I took them at night which normally isn't too much of a problem as I usually enhance the pictures when editing them but for some reason my computer program would not let me increase the brightness this time. I will get better pics when I complete the next section.
I am disappointed that the light gold came out so much brighter than the medium and dark golds I used. When I lined the spools up next to each other I thought the 3 colours blended well but after quilting, well not so much. Hopefully when the whole thing is quilted it will blend a little better.
Here are a couple of close ups:
Far from perfect but it's all practice and I can see improvement so that is all I can ask of myself.
Until next time.
Sue
