I got back from the Houston International Quilt Festival on Friday night. I had a fantastic time, but now I’m back to reality. I’ve been unpacking, and trying to get caught up. I have several projects with deadlines, so my umbrella people will have to wait for a while.
Kona Modern quilt – I finished piecing this quilt before I left for Houston. It has to be quilted and bound for our next guild meeting, when our guild challenge is due.
Blue tree quilt – I finalized the drawing of the tree top, and took it to FedEx/Kinkos to create a full -size drawing. I’ll finalize the design of the bottom of the quilt later.
I’ve been gathering fabrics for this quilt. So far I haven’t found any for the foliage, other than the original fabric that inspired this quilt. Usually I like a scrappy look (for the Spring Blossoms quilt, I used 5 different pink and white fabrics for the large tree), but this fabric has such a great range of values, I’m going to try using just the one fabric for the foliage. I always cut out and pin up all my fabric pieces before I start sewing, so I can always add some other fabrics later if I don’t like the look of just one fabric.
I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday. Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.
Love those solids….what a dramatic quilt.
Your projects are lovely, the tree looks amazing and will be one
beautiful quilt!
Happy Sewing
Oh i like it! We have our meeting tomorrow … Fvmqg and we will all be showing off our makes. I finished mine awhile ago
http://cathy-blueberrypatch.blogspot.ca/2012/09/kona-modern-quilts-baby-modern.html
: )
Cathy, yours looks great! Will the FVMQG post a picture of all the challenge quilts?
The VMQG meeting is on Nov 19th, and I’m looking forward to seeing all ours.