Fabulous Fat Quarter Bundle

I have done something that I have never done before.  I bought a whole fat quarter bundle collection. 40 fat quarters in all. It was a bit of a nerve wracking decision to make. I had made my Dad a quilt using Miss Jump's Scrapbag by Linda Brannock for Moda and I really liked the fabrics. Browsing through Etsy I found someone selling a fat quarter bundle of it for a great deal. I was so excited when they came that I took pictures of every moment.

The packages eagerly awaiting me to open them.

The fat quarters so nicely packaged and organzied.

Stacked and ready for action!

I definitely have one quilt pattern in mind for these fabrics. It will be exciting to see what else I come up with to make with them. The purchase was definitely worth it!

Work In Progress Wednesday

I have been picking away at my UFO's and started on my UFO for October.

I have done a few more of my mountains. Only 18 more blocks to make. I would definitely love to see this together by winter.

I kept changing my mind about my Tulip UFO which is my UFO for October. I was not happy with my original design, and so I found a different one that used smaller 4 patches. Part of my problem was that I had bought charm packs, and the edges were pinked and the squares were smaller than 5 inches, which made them too small for some of the patterns I was looking at. Finally I decided on a third pattern, ironically Plan C by Carrie Nelson from her Schnibbles Times Two book. It calls for even smaller 4 patches, so everything is much better now. The original idea was to make a lap quilt for myself, but now I like the idea much better of making it into a wall quilt.





A new project I started was working on some circles with my leftover 5 inch squares from some quilts I made. I have never made circles before and it is going better than I thought. I have tried pinning, and not pinning and I have found that the not pinning works better for me. I do need to get some tweezers to help me at the end. I am using Elisa's Back Porch Designs circle templates. She has some good tutorials on her website, and I have found how to cut the circle templates to be very helpful.

Please check out what others are working on at Lee's Work in Progress Wednesdays.

Not my average Design Wall

Yesterday, my daughter came to me and asked me if she could take down my blocks on my design wall, so she could create her own design wall. I said yes, and asked her not to lose the quilt pieces. Originally, I thought she was going to use my blocks to create a new design but instead she had picked out her own fabric to use. As fabric is want to do, some of it has migrated to my basement.

Here is her design, entitled La Maison.I am always amazed at her creativity.

Couldn't resist

Yes, I did end up cutting into my Wiscasset charm packs and started playing with them. I happened to see this pattern and then it reminded me of a Charm Square quilt that Myra had made. I cut and sewed, then played around with them.

My husband says he likes the zigzag one the best. It was fun to play with fresh fabric, though I am still determined to get as many UFO as possible into quilt tops.

Fabric Friday

I have been doing bits and pieces of quilting here and there, but I have been sick for a week so I feel behind in everything, home, work and quilting included. I went camping last weekend with my family and we all came home sick with colds. We stayed overnight at my mother-in-law's on the way to the camp since it was quite a ways away from us. While there she gave me a beautiful soft denim jacket with red and white piping. Blue and red are one of my favourite colour combinations and I decided right then that I wanted to make a blue and red quilt.The next morning we left and as we were driving toward the camp I realized that we would be going right past the quilt store that I had visited on our summer vacation. I had bought 1/2 metre of aqua fabric there and it turned out to be the perfect shade to go with my red and aqua quilt, so I used it as the inner border. I did not have enough fabric to use it for the binding, so we stopped and and I got some more of it. While looking around the store, I noticed some charm packs. Wiscasset, red, blue and tan. It was a bit of an eerie feeling when I had just decided to buy some beautiful red and blue fabric. I bought all 4 charm packs that they had and of course I want to make a quilt with it right away. I think I will hold off until I have my Christmas quilting organized.

Butterfly Blooms Design Wall

 

I decided to change my UFO projects around. I am making this quilt for my niece and want to have it done for Christmas. I had all of the individual pieces sewn, so all I needed to do was sew them into blocks. It is the Butterfly Blooms pattern by Cozy Quilts. This is the first time I have worked with black as a background and I definitely like it more than I thought I would. I also found the perfect border fabric for it and I am excited to see what it will look like when it is all put together. Check out what others are doing for Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times.

August UFO top done

My August UFO top is done! Now that it is all put together I like it so much better than when it was individual squares. My least favourite thing is borders. It has been awhile since I have put big borders on a quilt. For me, with a quilt with so much going on in the middle I wanted a calmer border and I think the red/aqua work well with it. My September UFO is my Snowmen applique quilt. It is has been awhile since I did applique and I am looking forward to working on it. Check out other UFO finishes at Patchwork Times.