One Piece at a Time

Still dead here

Still dead in the computer here
Tha previous post was scheduled

Congratulations Kalli

Blog reader and AWESOME appliquer Kalli sent me these photos of her Florabunda quilt at the Quilter's Harvest Quilt show in Michigan. She won a ribbon! Way to go Kalli!

Swoon.

Serious computer failure

Hi everyone
I'm having an epic computer failure here
Am posting....slowly from my phone
Hope to be back soon
Mimi's bloomers block next week hopefully

Design Wall Monday

Here’s a shot of my design wall/table this Monday. I was working away on my birds from last week but the purple fabric seemed really dark. After trying just about everything I decided to take it out and substitute some teal fabric. Ahhh! I like that much better. This was partly inspired by the piece of fabric you see below. I decided to modify a My Tweets Block and make a small mini quilt for my office with this. That way I can practice doing the embroidery before undertaking a big project.

Be sure to check out Judy’s blog for some fun Monday inspiration.

I'm a Cover Girl...well Miss Ashley is actually

I just saw this yesterday and was so excited that I had to breath into a paper bag. My newest pattern, Miss Ashley, is on the cover of McCall's Quilting's latest special issue America Quilts Together. You can read all about the pattern here:

Miss Ashley

To purchase the issue just click on the picture above or on the button in the left sidebar.

A Familiar Friend

I think I have been missing my bird friends from last year. Here is my first try at a bird for my Twitter quilt. Now I am going to try to figure out the embroidery thing…more to come on that!

The background fabric is a much richer yellow, it didn't photograph too well. It's Kaufmann Ultra Sateen in the color Buttercup...don't you just love the name Buttercup?

That Mysterious Periwinkle Fabric

Some of you might remember that I was having trouble finding the periwinkle fabric that I have been using in Mimi’s Bloomers. Well, I finally broke down and bought a color card for Moda’s Bella Solids

and BINGO! As in

B I N G O

I found it. It’s kinda hard to tell from the picture but it’s a darn good match.

Tentmakers of Cairo

 

Wow...wow...wow...I found this on YouTube yesterday. For more swoon worthy information just google Tentamkers of Cairo.

This is amazing!

Design Wall Monday…Labor Day Version

I hope all my US friends are enjoying a nice holiday weekend. I am having a lovely time thinking about my new quilt which I HAVE to call Twitter. Here’s the scoop. When I was doing the McCall’s Design Star contest back in 2010, the last project we had to do was to adapt our first entry into a different quilt. I had used my Miss Hannah quilt as my first entry.

And the quilt I made as an adaptation was Ambrosia:

Well, a few weeks ago I was getting nostalgic for a large medallion quilt so I decided to see what I could do with Miss Kelly, the center for My Tweets. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

Recently, I’ve wanted to do a quilt that combines both appliqué and some embroidery. I am hoping for an exotic feel here as well. I think a lot of my blog the next few months will document what I am learning by doing this quilt.

So, I’m off to start my big girl job tomorrow. I am still going to be blogging and rest assured, Mimi’s Bloomers will continue as well. I don’t know how this whole thing is going to go but I am up for the adventure…hope you are too.

Be sure to check Judy’s blog for some Monday inspiration.