Quilt News! Sawtooth Borders Improv Quilt Top Finish! Mary Hogan's New Book Log Cabin Improv, Road Trip to Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA and Fall Flowers

Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA, Deer roam freely, not very shy.

Formal Rose Garden at Point Defiance Park has a high fence around it to protect from the deer.

Fort Nisqually is a national living historic museum, also in Point Defiance Park.

The kitchen garden in Fort Nisqually Museum, I love gardens.

My Sawtooth Border Improv quilt with small yellow border added and two sawtooth borders.

The two HSTs in the top left are sewn in upside down, need to be taken out.

This book is the best book on Log Cabin improv design I've seen! Written by Mary Hogan.

My finished Sawtooth Border Improv quilt top,  18"x 37".

Point Defiance Park Rose Garden also had a gorgeous display of Dahlias.

 Hello Quilt Friends! 

The fall weather has been sunny and warm and we have been on many road trips the last couple of weeks taking advantage of the sun before the rains come and they will come! 

We visited Point Defiance in Tacoma, WA. It's a big park with a zoo, an aquarium, a formal rose garden and forest trails and a fantastic beach. Superb!

This last week I also finished experimenting and picking out seams and adding borders here and there and finally deciding on a design I liked for my Sawtooth Border Improv Scrap Quilt. Yey! 

Also I found Mary Hogan's new book, Log Cabin Improv, at my library and it was so good I had to buy my own copy. It is the best book on improv I've seen. The photos are great and Mary has an excellent way of explaining the process. I highly recommend her book.

And that is the quilt news from the valley, where the fall sun is shining and it's time to get dinner started.

Remembering to be thankful and I'll be by to visit!

Quilt News! Saw Tooth Border Experiments, 16 Patch Blocks, AHIQ Yellow Challenge? 3 Pinwheels Sampler Finish! Seattle in September

More experiments in arranging the sawtooth border.

Start on 16 Patch blocks, 4 here.

Did someone say Yellow, as in a new AHIQ Challenge?

We visited Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle last week.

I hand quilted 3 Pinwheels Sampler Quilt.

My 3 Pinwheels Sampler with binding pinned on, 21"x 30".

 

Quilt News from the Pacific NW where sunny weather prevails!

Last week we visited the Pike Place Market and enjoyed the flowers, fruits and vegetables in the farmer's market and bought gourmet cheese and some kitchen supplies.

And I finished hand quilting my 3 Pinwheels Sampler Quilt and finished hand stitching the binding on.

I used left over blocks and pieces from other projects and just kept arranging and adding or subtracting parts until I liked how it looked.

My Saw Tooth border small quilt is in the design and experiment stage. I'm using left over blocks and pieces from other projects and enjoying the challenge. The question that needs to be answered with this project is what is the main idea, the focus? Do I want the saw tooth border to be the focus? Making a commitment on size will also help. I like setting boundaries because then I know what areas have to be filled.

 

Make sure and stop by Beth Shibley's fun quilt tutorials on YouTube and visit her blog @ lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com

That's the news from the valley where I'm enjoying cooler weather and farmer's markets.

Remembering to be thankful and I'll be by to visit.