{"id":47024,"date":"2019-08-18T07:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=47024"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:28:48","slug":"dream-projects-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/dream-projects-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Projects #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt Diva Julie had an <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltdivajulie.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/so-many-ideas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideas post<\/a> recently. I really liked the methodical way she went about deciding what projects from inspiration would turn into actual quilts AND when!<\/p>\n<p>I last wrote about my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dream-projects-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dream projects in March<\/a>. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made a little progress on this list. This makes me kind of feel like writing down dream quilts isn\u2019t a terrible idea. Of course, many of the potential projects on the list haven\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique\u2019 (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/whole-cloth-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whole Cloth quilt<\/a> and I will use it as starting point.<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps<\/li>\n<li>Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the \u2018ticker tape\u2019 style so I can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the <a title=\"Whole Cloth Quilt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/whole-cloth-quilt\/\">Whole Cloth Quilt<\/a> and using red, again, for the background.<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric. I&#8217;d really like it if someone else would apply fusible to a bunch of turquoise for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique\u2019 (one sheet of fabric) Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/whole-cloth-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whole Cloth quilt<\/a> and I will use it as starting point.<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly<\/li>\n<li>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\u2019t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the <a title=\"Whole Cloth Quilt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/whole-cloth-quilt\/\">Whole Cloth Quilt<\/a> and using red, again, for the background.<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.<\/li>\n<li>Added: 9\/14\/2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/various-sundry-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Basketweave Baby<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Dream state<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: Scrappy<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Fons &amp; Porter, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.fonsandporter.com\/videos\/2097_baby-quilts-with-three-dimensional-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series 1000, episode 1005<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Hunting and Gathering<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: blue 2.5\u00d74.5 rectangles<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/finished-done-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FOTY 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I can\u2019t 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/foty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FOTY<\/a> quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version \u2013 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Blue Lemonade<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Hunting and Gathering<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: inspiration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/pink-and-blue-lemonade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TFQ\u2019s Pink Lemonade quilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I probably <i>had<\/i> enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/done-en-provence-clue-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">En Provence<\/a>. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Easy Street<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: have pattern\/ dream state<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: pinks<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I really liked <a href=\"http:\/\/ldq.outlandishthreads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daisy<\/a>\u2018s version of Easy Street, which she calls <a href=\"http:\/\/ldq.outlandishthreads.com\/?p=346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cherry Bomb<\/a> (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don\u2019t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I\u2019d 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>En Provence #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I loved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/en-provence-quilt-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one<\/a> I made before and can\u2019t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can\u2019t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Dream state.<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: I haven\u2019t decided on a particular feathered star<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/triangle-technique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triangle Technique <\/a>for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0977914046\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0977914046&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;linkId=TKGYTTTKDXRSY5K5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star of Chamblie<\/a>, at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/quilt-shop-going-batty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shop in Reno<\/a> that I might want to use as a base idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Good Night Irene Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=good+night+irene+quilt&amp;t=ffsb&amp;iax=1&amp;ia=images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company<\/a>\u2019s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54<\/li>\n<li>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 fabric combination yet.<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background as the background, as I did with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2014\/scrapitude-carnivale\/\">Scrapitude Carnivale<\/a> quilt. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn\u2019t call it Good Night Irene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/interlocking-triangle-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two quilts<\/a> and have variations on the pattern to make more.<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/spiderweb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spiderweb<\/a>\u2018s paper piecing). I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts\/spiky-stars-it2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spiky Stars<\/a> using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Jack\u2019s Chain Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: dream state<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Jack\u2019s Chain, a continuous pattern<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making. 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 right now is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker. I still like the smaller version better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Music Quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: dream state, but not very inspired<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Fabric\/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline and now I have missed the college graduation deadling. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique\u2019 or do something else (print on fabric?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Pineapple<\/b> (Hunting and Gathering)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: I have some strips cut.<\/li>\n<li>Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Pineapple log cabin<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I haven\u2019t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/pineapple-redux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous attempt<\/a>. I bought a different ruler: a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CWI2U0Q\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B00CWI2U0Q&amp;linkId=0a4c83afc9ffd0498dd0f8abdf1ee501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Grids Pineapple ruler<\/a> in hopes that it will work better for me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Silk Colorblock quilt<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: I have the fabrics and the plan<\/li>\n<li>Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/colorblock-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorblocks 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/finished-kona-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kona Challenge<\/a> in 2011, another was my 1990 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/colorblock-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorblocks 2<\/a> and the first one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/colorblock-quilts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorblocks<\/a>, 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Spin Wheel<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: Hunting and Gathering<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fonsandporter.com\/articles\/spin_wheel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fons &amp; Porter Spin Wheel<\/a>, 1200 series, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.fonsandporter.com\/videos\/2119_conjoining-blocks-and-pyramid-triangles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode 1201<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background<\/li>\n<li>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 added the correct size piece to my cutting sheet and now have a huge stack of patches waiting for a background color.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/windmill-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windmill<\/a><\/b> (Hunting and Gathering)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status: half cut; need more greys for the background<\/li>\n<li>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\u2019t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.<\/li>\n<li>Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts: I thought I would buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand. Friend Julie tested the Sizzix die and found it to be the wrong size, so back to cutting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of the Dream State: <i>Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/finished-box-full-of-letters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Full of Letters<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Flying Around &#8211; in process!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/finished-food-quilt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food quilt #2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/finished-food-quilt-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food quilt #3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/finished-hmm-chubby-charmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Half Moon Modern Quilt<\/a> I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/midi-bag-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medium Mondo Bag<\/a> \u2013 I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/metroscape-top-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroScape<\/a> quilt is finished, working on the binding<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/finished-stepping-stones-n-2-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stepping Stones #2<\/a> \u2013finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt Diva Julie had an ideas post recently. I really liked the methodical way she went about deciding what projects from inspiration would turn into actual quilts AND when! I last wrote about my dream projects in March. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made a little progress on this list. This makes me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/dream-projects-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dream Projects #12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[278,91,360],"class_list":["post-47024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-dream-projects","tag-future-projects","tag-possibilities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56806,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47024\/revisions\/56806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}