Babs wanted to pin baste a quilt top that she made for her future daughter-in-law who is a purple girl. There was a tutorial on Buttontree Lane Stitchery for stitchy flippy half square triangles. I shared it with Babs and she decided it was the perfect quilt design for a young person! We all shared purple fabrics with her and in no time flat she had this wonderful quilt top!
This quilt is a great way to use up scraps and the resultant shapes are fun and interesting. They remind me of prisms! It is now pin basted and ready for quilting.
The second project I am going to show is Char's quilt blocks in the making. She liked my Lazy Punk quilt and decided she would like to try out my method. She has a collection of skeleton fabrics that she wanted to feature in her blocks. She used a Northcott Stonehenge fabric for the background and then she matched the outer arcs to the wedges in her blocks. I suggested that she call her quilt Lazy Bones and I think that's what she is going to go with! The skulls in the middle of each block glow in the dark! What fun!
That's it for today - my cold is making me feel like a real lazy bones so I don't think I'll be doing anything productive today! Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H
Love both of these!
ReplyDeleteAs a lover of purple I am so in love with that quilt. I like the skelly blocks too...very different.
ReplyDeleteLove the purple quilt, and the skulls-are wild-lol
ReplyDeleteI too love both these projects!! Looking good...feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteOh I so want that purple quilt, it is wonderful and my colleague at work would faint for the skull one.
ReplyDeleteHope you're feeling better Karen! I really want to try the stitchy floppy thing. I have a huge pile of left over half square triangles I could use:)
ReplyDeleteinteresting skull blocks. who knew there was so much variety of skull fabrics.
ReplyDeletegreat looking quilt top.
Rest and get well soon.
ReplyDeleteI've been spending the day making a tiny star hexagon for my Soupcon quilt.
love the purple quilt ! take care of you Karen! a good rest is important!
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Take care of yourself---colds are the pits!! Love the skull blocks & you can never go wrong with purples in a scrap block.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun quilt. Thanks for sharing the link.
ReplyDeleteThe purple quilt is great. I've never seen that technique before. Thanks for the link. Love the skull quilts, they're just too much fun. I've got to find that glow in the dark skull fabric. Hope you're feeling better soon.
ReplyDeleteLove the purple quilt, what a great design!
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