On the horizon...

Is my next baby quilt design.  My original plan was to design patterns and sell them, but I’m not sure I have the knack to write the patterns.  My brain definitely leans towards the creative side, and is sorely lacking much in the logicall department.

This design came about by accident, but I absolutely love it!

On my design wall today I have some blocks I’m playing with.  They were born from the leftover backing on a recent quilt, basic black, and the remainder of my Moda Chocolate fabrics.

I have quite a bit of both the blue and the red floral left, but not a lot of the beige, which was the leftover backing fabric.

I like both blocks, the one on the right will obviously make a brighter and scrappier quilt, the one on the left will yield a larger quilt because it uses less of the beige background, which I only have about a yard and a half left of it.

While playing around with the idea in EQ7, the baby quilt took over and was born!

Update on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 11:52AM by Created by CJ

It’s too darn bad there isn’t more of the background fabric.  I could really have fun with these blocks!

Forget the 4 star blocks on the right, they are scrap blocks for something else. Wouldn’t the others make a beautiful medallion quilt?  Too bad I didn’t think about that and use a background I had plenty of… I was just trying to use up scraps.

Design "floor" Monday

I wasn’t pleased with my itty bitty pieced border, and I knew there was no way I was going to finish all four of them at the rate I was going, so I ripped off the existing border, and remade them properly, instead of using all the squares to assemble them.

Much better, and just one left to go!

I’ll redraft the center blocks, and make another one correctly, and chalk this one up as my prototype.  I really like the way the pattern looks with these borders, and when pieced with the redrafted blocks and borders, it actually goes together rather quickly.  Ninety percent of this can be easily cut with my AccuQuilt strip cutters, so that part is definitely a breeze!

Don’t forget to head over to Judy’s and see what everyone else is up to this Monday!

Jim’s headed back down to New Orleans today.  He’ll be gone for three weeks, but home each weekend so that will be nice.

We harvested some garlic and potatoes out of the garden yesterday, yum!  With Jim being gone all week, I’m drooling over the thought of roasting whole heads of garlic and slathering them onto crusty bread… I just have to make sure I don’t have to go anywhere! 

Update on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 5:51AM by Created by CJ

Woohoo the borders are done!  I couldn’t sleep last night, so I worked on the last border and just finished sewing them all on.

I think I’m going back to my original plan of donating the Monkey Quilt to charity, and will make this quilt my other baby quilt gift to one of Jim’s co-workers.  With that in mind, I’ll probably do a pantograph on it, and get started on another one (ooh fun picking new colors!).

The quilting will show well on this top, since it has so much white in it.  I can pick a child’s pattern, but edge to edge feathers would look really awesome on here.  Hmmmm….

Another UFO finished!

This one has been sitting in my pile forever! Well it seems like it anyway. I had quilted most of it on my sewing machine, but the thread (Sulky Blenadbles) was giving me so much grief I quilt in frustration and set it aside.

I decided to see how that thread handled on my Millennium, and it gave me no trouble at all! So I finished it up, bound it yesterday (after mowing the grass AND a wild shopping spree for clothes!) and washed and dried it this morning, woohoo!

I don’t like this one as well as the first one I made with these monkey designs.  I was playing around and for the most part, just scattered the designs over the quilt top.

As you can see, all the embroidery was done after the top was pieced, and actually I embroidered through the quilt batting (wool) as well.  These designs were a little too dense for that and it didn’t turn out as nice as the first one, but it’s still cute!

This morning I cut and squared up the backing fabric for the lonestar, and I’m going to get it loaded and ready to quilt today.

Then I want to get back to the baby quilt I started!

With the border being a floral, do you think this would be okay for a boy?