Quilt News From the Valley! Happy September! Heat Wave, New Batik Colors, Walk in the Neighborhood Color it Green

A path in the neighborhood, notice the greens?

 

    I picked up some beautiful fat quarter batiks and a small floral in local fabric store.

 Time to press them getting ready for sub-cutting.

 

 

Hello Quilt Friends and Happy September!

This last couple of weeks has been hot around here so not much piecing has been done. I spent some time browsing the local fabric store, good sales and air conditioning. 

I did get some hand quilting done on my Orange X Block Quilt and pressed all the new batiks and the small floral fabric I got on sale. 

And I got some good quilt book reading time in, enjoying my copy of Sew Charming by Mary Etherington and Connie Tesene.

I browsed Temecula Quilt Co.'s website and enjoyed looking through their patterns and books. Sheryl Johnson's new book, Return to Temecula, looks like a great reference for inspiration.

So that is the quilt news from the valley where I've been staying in the shade and moving slow. I'm remembering to be thankful and praying for people in Louisianna suffering from Hurricane Ida.

How's your weather?

I'll be by to visit

 

Quilt News, Mostly Green Quilt Top Piecing Finished, Borders or Not?

Mostly Green 4in1 quilt top close view.

Pieced together, Mostly Green 4in1 Quilt top  48" x 48".

 

Hello Quilt Friends! Quilt news from the valley, where I'm remembering to be thankful!

I finished piecing Mostly Green 4in1 Quilt top yesterday.

Four Patch, Nine Patch and Sixteen Patch blocks are included.

This quilt is a combination of four different quilt challenges. In my previous post I explain that in more detail.

Now I'm wondering about borders, what do you think?

This is a quick progress report, I just had to share!

Have a good weekend and I'll be by to visit.

Quilt News 4 August! New Piecing for quilt 'Suppose', 4 Challenges in 1 'Mostly Green' Quilt Layout Progress, Hand Quilting Progress on Orange X Block Quilt, Garden Photos

A walk through the neighborhood.

I believe this is a Dutch Iris.

'Mostly Green' quilt layout possibility, deep brown 'Espresso' squares have replaced the 2 purple squares.

Garden lights.

More hand quilting progress on Orange X Block Quilt.

Mostly Green Quilt 'interviewing' layout possibilities in b/w.

Blocks and units that might be part of my new quilt 'Suppose.'

 

Quilt News from the valley!

Where it's August and summer temps are making life easy.

The last couple of weeks I've been hand quilting my Orange X Block quilt, pieced with left over parts and scraps. Hand quilting gives an organic, soft look to quilts, just lovely.

And I've been pulling out scraps and putting together units and blocks to be added or considered for my newest improv quilt, 'Suppose.' It's going to be the sampler kind and probably asymmetrical.

Then I finally finished the nine patches and four patch blocks that I wanted to go into my 'Mostly Green' quilt.

This quilt has been in progress for quite a while, it has a long history!

It first began as Sixteen Patch blocks for a green block challenge. I finished 9 sixteen patch blocks, mostly green, each block measures 8". What to do with them I didn't know so I put them away. Once in a while I took them out and looked at them.

Time went by and I noticed a challenge in AHIQ, I think it was, and it was making a quilt similar to one of the quilts in Rodney Kiracoff's book showing his collection of quilts, Unconventional and Unexpected.

Linda @ kokaquilts pieced up a great quilt using one of the quilts in his book as inspiration.

And the design idea of scale was an aspect of that particular quilt design.

Then another challenge came up in AHIQ, Scale, Aha! I started thinking, what if..?

Then wouldn't you know it another challenge comes up in AHIQ, asymmetrical/symmetrical.

Another Aha!

I thought, 'Why couldn't I combine 4 challenges into one quilt? Then I had a reason to solidify a design!

So the color green block challenge and the AHIQ challenge for making a quilt inspired by a quilt in Rodney's book and the challenge of using scale and the challenge of using asymmetry/symmetry is being met in my design of my 'Mostly Green' quilt!

Maybe I should call it 4 in 1 Mostly Green.

The blocks I have now, when pieced will measure 48 x 48".

 and that, Quilt Friends,  is the news from the valley!

where I'm remembering to be thankful.

I'll be by to visit.