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Hello again,
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Is it warm yet where you live? We had a nice teaser of sunshine and warm temps for a few days, and then that tricky Mother Nature decided to turn back to cold and miserable weather! But at least it hasn't snowed ;).
I have been having fun mucking around the house and yard ( weather permitting for that last one!). I think Spring makes me want to rearrange and redecorate inside, while there is nothing much I can yet do outside. Just little changes are fun to make, and they don't cost much ( or are free if you "shop" your own home).
Every once in a while I take some time in my quilt room to work on this project or that...
I finished quilting this little quilt and just need to sew the binding on: And I treated myself to the newest collection of fabric by Amy Smart, called Notting Hill.
I bought mine from the sweetest shop owner, Minju, who runs Hunniequilt ( click) on Etsy and also found it here ( click). By the way, Minju got my fabric to me in 2 days....all the way from California to Pennsylvania and I just love her so if you are looking to support an independent little shop, please consider shopping with her!
I considered very carefully what I wanted to make with this collection and pulled out all kinds of quilt books and magazines, but nothing seemed quite right. And then this quilt in our family room caught my eye... I have owned it for years and at the moment it is draped over our loveseat.. It is not in very good shape ( you can't see the rips in the border, but they are B A D). I believe I bought it on Ebay and I loved it at first sight! It is a very simple quilt, comprised of snowballs and nine patches, but you know I love those simple quilts the best! Anyway.....this is the quilt I decided to recreate with my Notting Hill fabric collection! I have been measuring, and cutting, and sewing, and remeasuring, and recutting ( I even had to use my seam ripper~ I try to NEVER use my seam ripper!), but I now have the measurements all figured out and am happily constructing blocks!
The original quilt has 20 blocks, each consisting of 4 blocks ( 2 ninepatch and 2 snowballs), and I'm going to see how far my fabric collection will get me! ( By the way, did you notice that I reversed one of the ninepatch blocks in the first set of blocks? I did that on purpose because it looked way more interesting to me). I will keep you up to date on the progress on this one!
And finally, last week I decided to dive into my UFO pile and pulled out this sweet quilt top: The sad thing is that I don't remember at all where the pattern came from or who designed it! So next time, before I put a UFO away, I am attaching a- little- note- to- self! I obviously used a lot of scraps and it is a super happy quilt! I decided to machine quilt the busy center and now am handquilting around those petals in the outside borders with my favorite Sulky 12wt thread (click).
That's all for this week! Please share what you are currently working on! And if anyone knows the pattern name of the petal quilt, please enlighten me!
Until next time~happy creating!
Monique
