Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
I removed the Pamela Allen quilts and the April Cornell squares from the design wall. I wasn’t working on them and they were starting to depress me*. I put the dot blocks back up instead and it makes me really happy to look at the dots. I also enjoy rearranging the squares into a pleasing … Continue reading “Return of Thoughts on Dots”
In the post about Sewing Accomplishments, I talked about some squares that I sewed together. They were, as I mentioned, a pack of squares from the Benartex squares club. I got a different set of rectangles sometime previously, which I found Friday in the pile of the great unwashed (fabric). I washed them along with … Continue reading “Mr. B’s Rectangles et al.”
I did get some sewing and fabric work done over the weekend. Nothing fantastic, but it felt good just to be handling fabric. I actually finished this block on the way back from our ski trip the first weekend in March. I didn’t get around to pressing it until this past weekend. I started this … Continue reading “Sewing Accomplishments”
These are the blocks that I have made so far as examples for my beginning quilt class. I usually keep most of them at the office for teaching purposes, so this was the first time I had put them all up together on the design wall. The first thing I noticed was that there was … Continue reading “Is it Possible to Have too Much Icky Green?”
The quilts are in the good hands of the quilter. I picked out a varigated green-blue color for the quilting on Feelin’ Blue, Too. It is difficult to pick the color of the thread. I always like the thread to disappear unless you get up close. I really like the piecing to be the predominant … Continue reading “Quilting Quilts Not So Painful”
I am working on the third in a series of bullseye quilts. All of them have been group projects and this is no exception. The most recent two, Seeing Red and Feelin’ Blue, have been made with two friends, JZS and Aja. Feelin’ Blue is quite monochromatic in feel and may work well in our … Continue reading “Feelin’ Blue”