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.

Butterfly Blooms Oops

After I finished the duvet cover, I looked at this on the design wall, and noticed the upper left hand corner. I've fixed it now, but the second block was turned the wrong way. If you look at the picture I posted in the "What's on My Design Wall" you'll see the difference. I feel better now!

What's on My Design Wall 6-8

I've added two of the borders to the top. I still have a 4 1/2" black border to add to the outside of this. My design wall isn't quite tall enough for this top, and it wasn't wide enough so I added a flannel backed vinyl tablecloth this morning.

I only worked on this a bit. This weekend was my birthday, so I was busy and didn't get much done. My hubby is leaving on a trip to Europe today, so we ran lots of errands yesterday. Today is my last day of work, so staring tomorrow I hope to be disciplined and get lots of stuff done, not only with my quilting, but around the house too. I have a list!

I got a pedicure with my best friend on Saturday, then I went to a party for all those going to Europe (it's a church group thing). Oh, in there, I also did some shopping. My hubby told me to buy some fabric for my b'day, and I did.

I got these. I don't use orange much, but decided I love Judy Laquidara's Peaches and Dreams quilt so much that I'm going to make one. Normally I would have used cool colors (blues, teals, purples) but I wanted to try something outside the box. I also bought a bunch of springy batiks and a book for strip-pieced quilts. I really loved a couple of the patterns, and since it was my birthday present, decided to add it to the mix.

Hope you had a great weekend.

Butterfly Blooms All the Blocks

Here are all of the blocks. This is one happy quilt! These are just on the design wall, not yet sewn together. I still need to add a thin black border, then another border from one of the colors (I haven't decided yet which color to use) and then another larger border. I should be able to get this one done in the next couple of days.

More Butterfly Blooms Blocks

Here are some more of the blocks. I am going to make at least 5 more. The top is supposed to have 42 blocks, but I don't know if I am going to make that many.

I have been using the Essential thread from Connecting Threads. I cleaned the bobbin area after about 3 bobbins of thread. This thread works very well, and has far less lint than Aurafil and it is much less expensive. I bought cone thread (5000 yards) for only $7.99. Quite a deal, and it works very well.

More BB and Down Under Quilts

A couple more blocks. I had a bit of adventure this morning...sewed my finger. Ewwww! First time I've done that. I'm a little twitchy when my fingers get close to the needle now, but I'm fine. I've had a tetanus shot it the last couple of years, so I'm good there.

Yesterday I found a link to Down Under quilts. There is a free online subscription, and I signed up for it. I spent a number of hours yesterday looking through the back issues and printing patterns for quilts I might make. Here are some of the quilts I loved.

Butterfly Blooms...again

Here are some more blocks. I have a question. Do I need to change the red set. When I look at it as a picture it doesn't seem as obviously different, but it is kind of blah. Do you think it looks too much like one fabric?

Your opinions would be appreciated.

Some Blooms and Butterflies

Got some done. I'm really liking these. It's taking longer than I anticipated, because I have to choose which colors I want together, and I have to pick out the correct strips for each one, but I'm enjoying it immensely.

If anyone is a Star Trek fan, I just saw the movie and I recommend it to you. It was fun.

A Bit More

More work done. All of the pieces are ready to be put together...finally! I should have some blocks done by the end of the day. More pictures then.

More Work

A bit more work done. This one takes a bit of time. Four of the strips need to have triangles on the ends. Then I decided that I would use the small triangles for something instead of throwing them away.

Next Up, Butterfly Blooms

I need to find a long zipper for the duvet cover, so until I do, I am going to work on another WIP. This is a pattern and set of strips I bought 3 years ago (or maybe 2) when I was camping with my family outside of Fresno in the mountains. I think it was when we were at Shaver Lake. We went to the Paradise Quilt shop and I found this pattern--Joe liked the colors, so I bought it. I cut the black strips last year at a friends house, and made the first block. I just cut all the batik strips to length, and am working on cutting the black strips. Here is one of the finished blocks.