Paris in the Fall

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Kim

No, I am not going to Paris this fall. I am still going to be in Hawaii. I am talking about the Block of the Month that This and That designed using French General’s fabric.

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I ran into a speed bump when I was making one of the blocks and used up too much of the fabrics. I had to order more fabric – or so I thought of the finishing kit. I am glad I didn’t have to because though I ordered the same pattern of the fabric, not the same color way. It was really hard to tell online when the shades are just slightly different. I used the leftover fabrics to piece the back.

This was one of the tops I completed during my blogging hiatus. I also cut the batting for it, so it is just waiting to be sandwiched.

Flurry

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Kim

This top, was completed about a month or so ago. I just forgot to take a photo of it.

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It is based on the free pattern from Kate Spain.

I fell in love with the fabric and bought the kit from “The Fat Quarter Shop” – and in true-to-me fashion, I decided it needed to be larger so I ordered more fabric. It is 5 x 5 .

Tomorrow’s Heirlooms BOM Top

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Kim

One of the quilt tops I got done during my hiatus was my Tomorrow’s Heirlooms Top.

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I have had the blocks completed for a while, I just never knew how I wanted to set them. I never bought the finishing kit, and frankly I didn’t like it. But in retrospect, I should have bought it just so I could have gotten the hydrangea fabric for an outer border. I had bought matching white-on-white fabric just on a whim – I am glad I did.

These blocks were started in 2005. I had been on a year-long hiatus when I was in Washington State. I wanted something easy to start back on after so long. It was a Marti Michell Block-of-the-Month. The blocks are not “easy” per se from aspect that there are a lot of pieces, but with the templates to be used, it was easy because of the cutting was more accurate and the kits were already there.

I finished the blocks in 2007 shortly after we moved to Hawaii. They then set waiting for me to have the “perfect” setting for them. I never really could find it. Nothing hit me with it.

Fast forward to about a week ago. I had bought new containers for my projects to go in my shelves, and while I was transferring the projects to the new containers, I came across these blocks again. I decided I would set them simply and make a wall-hanging of them. I have a purple mottled backing fabric that I bought by accident online that would be perfect for this. I will use the same fabric to bind the quilt.

Another Un-intended Hiatus

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Kim

I am such a bad blogger. I can’t seem to blog with regularity anymore. The last you heard I had made my awesome miPad case. I also made a coordinating cell phone/camera case (no photos yet). Shortly after, my laptop was giving me fits, so I had to send it in.

During that time I completed 3 new tops. They were already started (as in the blocks were done) and all I had to do was put them together. I also quilted two quilts. And bound them. By hand. Yep. I got a lot done. No photos of the quilts yet though.

Last Saturday, I cut batting for probably about 15 tops. With the intentions of getting as many sandwiched as I could with my gross (1,444) of pins. I will probably order another two gross of pins soon – you can never have too many pins.

Then I threw my back out. It still is not feeling its best. It hurts if I move certain ways or too quickly. I am just resting a lot. I wish I had something to bind by hand because there are only so many reruns of NCIS or CSI you can watch in a day.

So instead of complaining about my back, I am going to post a teaser of the tops I got completed (plus one I never got a photo of).

Flurry:

Paris in the Fall:

Star Crazy:

Tomorrow’s Heirlooms:

So look for the posts in the next few days. Yes, they will be there because they will be auto-posted.

Jelly Roll Races

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Kim

You have seen this quilt all over blogland. I made one before, but a few friends from my monthly bee decided that we should do it and “race”. Some called it the “Jelly Roll Stroll” – which was pretty good.

I finished first (though it took me the longest to prep before we all started) The flying geese made a nice touch I think. CIMG0380