As I said in the last post, projects I have wanted to do for awhile kept springing into my head and I really needed a place to put them. I realized that once I cleared out my head, there was more space for other stuff. Guess what happened? More new projects popped into the free space in my head.
I am still not dating these posts, I will just continue to number them. I still like the idea of pretending that time is not passing, so they will just be on the list as I enter them. I still want these posts to be abut the possibilities.
Like I said last time, some of these come from the Current Projects list (Hunting and Gathering section). I don’t know if I will keep them there or move them here. Lots to work out, so continue to stay tuned.
Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Quilt
- Pattern: Original
- Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers
- Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
- Fabric: Scrappy
- Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
- Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and the unique piecing
Blue Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
- Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
- Thoughts:
Blue Lemonade (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
- Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
- Thoughts:
Easy Street
- Fabric: pinks
- Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
- Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge.
Food quilt #2 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Disappearing 9 patch
- Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
- Thoughts: Gift for son of good friends for graduation. I have started cutting for this in a serious way. I just need to figure out alternate colors.
Food quilt #3 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Disappearing something, probably 4 patch or 9 patch
- Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
- Thoughts: Gift for nephew for graduation
Half Moon Modern Quilt
- Pattern: I have some ideas, but nothing definite
- Fabric: Half Moon Modern Fabrics. I have half yard cuts, I think, plus some odds and ends and I’d like to use them together with some additional fabrics, or, at least a background.
- Thoughts: I do think it is difficult to start with fabrics rather than a pattern.
Music Quilt
- pattern: Don’t know
- Fabric: music prints and tone-on-tones
- Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his graduation quilt
Neutrals and Red/Scarlet Quilt
- Pattern: Sew two ~3″x3″ squares together, slice each separate fabric and insert a red strip, resew and sew the two squares to another set of squares.
- Fabric: neutrals+white, black and whites. I have some of these. I bought them not know what to do with them.
- Thoughts: gift
Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
- Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
- Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me.
Pink Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: pink 2.5×4.5 rectangles
- Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
- Thoughts:
Scrapitude #2
- Fabric: scrappy again, but with NO browns or blacks or super darks that look like holes; also more blues and perhaps a different background, though I do like the dots on bright white. I would make sure to skip the dots with a cream background.
- Pattern: Scrapitude by Charlotte Hawkes
- Thoughts: I want to try and figure out how to make the edges NOT on the bias.
Silk Colorblock quilt
- Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
- Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
- Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them.
Spin Wheel (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
- Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
Stepping Stones #2 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: Bonnie & Camille fabrics Bliss, Ruby, Vintage Modern: made two test blocks, but still in the thinking stage while I decide on the background colors. I want the contrast to be good.
- Pattern:
Stepping Stones #3
- Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
- Pattern:
Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
- Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
This is clearly not a regular feature, but it could be an irregular feature.