Another one Done

It's quiletd, bound and labeled. I'm happy it's done. It doesn't have a recipient yet, but I'll figure someone out.I saw a label on someone's blog that I liked to I did a similar thing. I printed out what I wanted to say on a strip of fabric, traced it with a fabric pen, then enclosed the ends by sewing them together. Then, as I finished sewing on the binding, I included it. It's a little flap of fabric on the back of the quilt. It's soft enough not to be bothersome, but obvious enough that the quilt will stay labeled.

I'm going to start quilting the next one soon. It will have a fleece backing as well. It is the butterfly blooms top that I finished in June of 2009. You can see the whole top by clicking on the link above. That's one of the reasons I like blogging. I would have no idea how long ago I finished that one, except I've blogged about it.

What's on my Design Wall...With Borders

Here it is with borders. The right and left are sewn on, the top and bottom not. I like it. What a happy quilt. Don't know who it's for yet, but I like it.

Check out other folks design walls on Judy's website.

Jelly Bean Top

Well, here is the top. None of the blocks are sewn together. I looked at the top on the wall, and it was OK, but when I looked at it through the camera, I liked it much better. The blocks are 6"x12" finished size, so the top as you see it is 4' wide by 5 1/2' long. I found the green/blue fabric when I shopped in Grand Junction yesterday, so I think it's going to be the border. I need to have some other color (maybe only an inch wide) around the blocks to frame them. I don't know what yet. My default is always black, but maybe white. Looking at the quilt top again, there are only 3 places where the green is on the outside, so maybe I'll just stick with the green. I do have all those 6 1/2" strips though. Hmmm, maybe something with them.

Jelly Beans

Anybody hungry? I think these colors are great. I'm glad I finally found a pattern that would look good. I have been looking for a while, but everything was too...blah. These are pretty fast and easy to make. I am making them according to my plan, so have 18 finished, you'll notice I only have two different fabrics in the centers so far, I have 3 more sets of 9 to do, then I'll be done and ready to put them together.

Early Morning Jelly Beans

Remember all those lovely 1 1/2" and 2 1/2" strips from Monday. Well here they are all cut to length. I woke up at about 4:30 this morning, and decided to do some more work on this quilt. I was cutting away, cutting, cutting cutting....there, all done!

Now to put some of the strips together to see what a block would look like. See that white paper on the right hand side with the green and purple colors on it, that's my "map" to make sure I get a good mix of strips throughout the quilt. So, I took the strips for the first blocks and put them next to each other. "One block that is 2 1/2 x 4 1/2...got it. On each side of that 1 1/2 x 4 1/2, hmm that looks nice. On the ends 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 again. Hey, this is starting to look pretty good. Next 1 1/2 x 6 1/2...? What, those are much too short, but I cut them all the sa......me! Ooops, not 1 1/2 x 6 1/2, no, no, no 1 1/2 x 8 1/2!"

See all these wonderful 1 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch strips, they're 2 inches too short. That's what happens when you get up at 4:30 and decide to cut some strips.

Luckily I had enough fabric that I could cut more 1 1/2 inch strips and cut the correct length, I even have ONE block done. See...