I last wrote about my dream projects in July. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made some progress on this list. This makes me kind of feel like writing down dream quilts isn’t a terrible idea. Of course, some projects haven’t changed.
Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt
- Status: Dream state
- Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
- Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
- Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so i can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
- Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt
- Status: Dream state
- Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
- Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
- Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
- Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
- Added: 9/14/2017
Basketweave Baby
- Status: Dream state
- Fabric: Scrappy
- Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
- Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing
Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt
- Status: Hunting and Gathering
- Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
- Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
- Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.
Blue Lemonade
- Status: Hunting and Gathering
- Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
- Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
- Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.
Easy Street
- Status: have pattern/ dream state
- 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 her 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. Not sure this will become a reality.
En Provence #2
- Status: Dream state
- Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
- Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.
Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)
Flying Geese Quilt
- Status: some Flying Geese made, good design in mind
- Pattern: I did a drawing that I want to use
- Thoughts: this wasn’t on any of my lists, but it has been on my mind lately and I think I will make it soon.
Good Night Irene Quilt
- Status: dream state
- Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
- Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that combination yet.
- Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.
Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)
- Status: dream state
- Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
- Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
- Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.
Jack’s Chain Quilt
- Status: dream state
- Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
- Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
- Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker.
Music Quilt
- Status: dream state, but not very inspired
- Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
- Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
- Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’
Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)
- Status: I have some strips cut.
- 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
Silk Colorblock quilt
- Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
- 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 silk 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. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.
Spin Wheel
- Status: Hunting and Gathering
- Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
- Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
- Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will. I have forgotten to cut the pieces I need to make the quilt, so I’ll have to add the correct size to my cutting sheet.
Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)
- Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
- 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
- Thoughts: I think I will buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand
Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:
Other:
I removed Stepping Stones #3 from the list, because I decided to give the pre-cuts to quiltmakers from the CampFire who need projects to work on. The details were:
- Status: waiting.
- 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: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls
- Thoughts: Hmmm. This is less exciting to me now. I think I need to finish #2 and then decide. It is just as likely as not that I will make this.
I might make another Stepping Stones quilt, but for the moment I think I am done with that pattern.
