However, I have not been idle in the sewing department of my life, just a little slower and a bit erratic. Quilting has a sort of therapeutic aspect to it, even if it's sporatic.
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I made these 2 banners for a friend's birthday. She requested a St. Patty Day banner, and I threw in the Welcome banner as a surprise. The Welcome banner used that fusible grid for the 1-inch squares. So easy. I love that fusible grid!
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My daughter and I have a wonderful arrangement: She pins my quilt tops into the quilt sandwich, and I quilt her quilts in exchange. Here are 2 of her quilts that I quilted for her:
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Kira was a quilt I had been working on before the hiatus, and I have since finished the top, and it is currently under my needle in the (almost finished) quilting stage. This turned out to be a really pretty quilt, using mostly batiks for the blocks, and Jinney Beyer border print for the border.
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My daughter and I decided we would make a jean circle quilt together, each of us making one half of the circles, then sewing them together when we got together. She lives near Denver, and I live in Wisconsin, so we don't get together as often as we wish we could. We currently have all the circles sewn into rows, and are in the process of sewing our rows together. Here it is so far:
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I have a lot of blue fabrics, and I mean, A LOT! I made Kira with scraps. Still I had a ton of blue scraps, so I decided on a scrappy blue string quilt. I sewed strips to phone book pages, trimmed to 8 inches, and Voila! The emergent quilt was so stunning, it needed a name other than "Blue Scrap Quilt!" It reminded me of the facets on a sapphire, and so it will henceforth be called the Sapphire quilt! Here it is:
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In January I saw a Mystery quilt challenge called Ice Crystals, by National Quilters Circle. https://www.nationalquilterscircle.com/article/mystery-challenge-week-1/
I had a fair amount of winter fabrics, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to use it. However, I wasn't crazy about the blocks that this project presented to the group, so I decided to make my own blocks! I started searching out snowflake-looking paper pieced patterns, and bought a number of patterns on Etsy, and eventually had enough to create this quilt below. I love this quilt, and the challenge of some of these blocks was very exciting and satisfying. The limiting factor for this quilt was the border fabric. I had EXACTLY enough to do this--I even had to use 2 pieces to each side of the border, but only if I didn't match the pattern which is something I would otherwise always do. It's not that noticeable, and when I quilt it I can camouflage the seams, but I would have liked to add 3 more blocks to the quilt to make it rectangular instead of square. Oh well!
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My neice got married this summer, and I made her a pair of potholders to match a set of kitchen towels that held a gift card. I also made "beer" potholders for her husband, the Grill Master.
Wow! I was busier than I thought! I THINK this brings me up to date, and I will try to be more diligent about posting here.
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