Current project

I have been on a mission to try and finish some of my old unfinished projects.

This is one I started about 6 or 7 years ago.

I did all the paper piecing, trimmed them up and put them in a drawer.

I'd bring them out every now and then, lay them out and put them back up.

I never could decide on the best layout.

I'm not super crazy about this but at least it is together after all these years.

I had all the diamonds in a nice stack tucked away in a drawer.

Didn't think about keeping any of the fabric with it.

So the hunt was on.

I just knew I had some of the yellow....but where.

I finally realized I had used it on another quilt.

But while looking for a piece of the butterfly fabric i found a 12" piece.

Lucky so far!!!

Not so lucky with the butterfly border.

I finally found a piece 21 x 30 on Ebay.

The basic layout wasn't too difficult.

It took me awhile to come up with the corner square.

I like it -- I think it makes it.

Now for the quilting. Sure hope it goes like I want. 

And I just couldn't resist this piece of fabric.

My mind is always looking for good pieces to stack n whack. 

 

 

Design Floor

I do most of my designing on the floor.

I keep thinking about making a design wall but I always end up back on the floor.

Anyway I decided to put together my blocks from Block Swap Adventure.

These blocks have been sitting around for awhile now and I decided to at least put them together - Quilting will come later. I also had a few blocks left from a round robin my family did a few years ago that I never used. I made a couple of extra block and I had enough for a quilt.

The 1st step was placing them and figuring out what to do with them.

I had some left over strips from another quilt that I used in the sashing. 

Used alot of Kona white.

I added the last blue border and called it done. 

It's such a good feeling to get a quilt put together especially a UFO.

Mosiac Bargello

I found this pattern by Dereck Lockwood a couple of years ago and fell in love with it. I just never thought I would make it - just another pattern to sit in the drawer and stay on my to-do list.

Well I decided to start it a few weeks ago. I managed to get the yellow ones done and again I thought it would be awhile before I would finish it - Another UFO

My mother and sister came down for the weekend and I thought this would be something I could do while they were here. And a good thing too - I wouldn't have gotten as far without my sisters help. We worked on it all weekend and when they left Monday morning I didn't have a whole lot left. So when I got off work I plunged in. It took 4 more hours and they were done.

I couldn't stand it and had to lay them out to see what they would look like.

Now I can't wait to put them together and get the border on. At least I have them this far and it won't take much to finish it - Another UFO