Next Project

I've been pondering and mulling over books for my next project.
       
I want to stop doing words and UnRuly stuff for a while. I thought I ought to expand my hand quilting skills by using templates or creating my own designs.

I was also give some gorgeous hand-dyed 9 patches sometime ago by Kate at Kate's Quilting and have been wanting to use them.

Lo and behold - I found this in Amish Abstractions (click on link). Perfect!

Can't wait to start!

More soon.

Gifts Galore!

The nice thing about having a birthday near to Christmas is that sometimes one hit's the jackpot!

The Old One let me order my Christmas presents online this year.  Word Play Quilts was part of the order.

My father then sent me an Amazon gift certificate for my birthday!  Woo hoo!

Here are my purchases.

Oh and the fabric too.  Lucky me!

I love the first Collaborative Quilting book.  We've got a table just like Gwen's sewing table, but The Old One say's it's too heavy for our floors and could end up in the sous sol!  He's using it for his tools instead.  What a waste!

Amish Abstractions is beautifully produced.  I've only got as far as the intro, but I love looking at the plates.  Can't find my original Roman Stripes which became Stripes or Strings

Got some sewing to do.

Speak soon.

S is for Strings (or Stripes)

I've joined Tonya's Liberated Amish Get Together 2010.

We have to select a quilt from the Brown's Amish Quilt Collection, liberate the design in solids and throw some letters or numbers in for good measure.  Right up my street!  Easy Peasey Lemon Squeezy.  Not!

I couldn't make my mind up and none of the quilts in the Brown Collection spoke to me.  So I flicked through LQI and LQII for inspiration and decided on the star quilt on the opposite page to Gwenny's Variable Stars in LQI.  I think the quilt is called Matthew's Stars, but can't remember.

Wasn't really happy with that either so I got The Old One and The Young One to cast their votes.

The winner is Quilt No 60.  The Young One wants it either on her bed or on her wall so that is that.

Next task is to start pulling the fabrics, but I've got to clear the decks first.