These are the two hand pieced blocks that I made last week. Different sort of look. Not so cheerful, but not depressing, either. I am not sure what I was thinking when I put the two dot fabrics in the same block? I thought I wasn’t using dots in this piece. Oh well. It is a scrap quilt, so who cares?
More dots.
I went to Britex today to get some fabric for pants. I was on the second floor and remembered that they have quiltmaking fabric. While the girl was cutting my pants fabric, I took a quick peek at the quilt fabrics. Lo and behold! They had dots! Hooray! I picked up the two above. They also had the Robert Kaufman Tropical Pimatex dots in both sizes. I have enough so I didn’t buy any, but it was good to be reminded that they are downtown and do have fabric. DUH!
I also stopped at the Container Store and found these project cases. I have been thinking about something like this since I read Be*mused‘s piece on the scrapbook project cases she found (I looked for the article, but couldn’t find it and can’t find her search button either-DUH!). They are 12 1/2 wide and 17 and something long. I bought two of them just to see how they would work. I filled up one with the Cross Blocks (Flowering Snowballs) + the fabric for the center pieces, which I don’t want to “put away” and never be able to find it again.
I was told today to look at other kinds of art besides quilts to see what I am inspired by. I have some books. I guess I will look at those and see what I see.
I am still thinking about black and white line drawings in a new visual journal. I haven’t done anything about it yet.
The photos of some of the quilts to which I linked (to Artquiltmaker.com) in the past week looked really crappy and I was embarrassed after I posted them. I took 4 quilts including Ocean Ave, Get the Red Out, the Punk Rock Quilt and the Mary Whitehead quilt to be photographed. I want to put better pictures on my website.
The latest baby quilt, which my mom made and I paid to have quilted, is done. It has to be picked up from the quilter soon. She is quilting the Nosegay next.
Hey, cool cross blocks. I got ‘caught up’ on my blog reading today, since business dropped off sharply after 2 this afternoon. Bit tired of people thinking I sell upholstery fabric based on my cutie chairs in the ‘knit pit’. Did you have any success finding the spotty fabric in your neck o’ the woods? Just enjoying your posts. I think of your blog every time I pull dots off the wall for someone to buy. okay, I’ll cop to designing quite a few ‘shop samples’ with dots as the main theme… but, they’re kind of addictive, don’t you think? Ha. I just noticed the word verification is ‘isnorf’… that’s what I’m about to do to my tea and brownie! Cami
You HAVE to post some pix of the fabric you have and more of your shop. I am dying to know what it all looks like. Did I miss something in your blog?
The dots are definitely addictive. I have at least two more projects in me using them. I will probably take a break after the Pineapple, though, and use some Denyse Schmidt fabrics for a change of pace.
Glad you stopped by.
I’m loving the dots too. I haven’t ever used dots yet…mmmm, perhaps there’s a message in that! Love your blog.
I am thrilled that you are reading and glad you love my blog. I love my blog, too and it is wonderful to have people enjoying it. Thanks for reading!
PS The world needs more dot quilts!