Still No Computer

So just some iPhone photos.

1) I am seriously loving my Anna Maria Horner Starburst blocks. I laid them out together today. They are big! They will finish at 20".

2) We got up this morning at 3:30am to head to Morgantown for my boyfriend's sister's graduation. (She has TWO Master's Degrees, how great is that?) I got to see a beautiful sunrise.

3) We also visited a local quilt shop in Morgantown and picked up a few goodies for myself. I plan on making some pillows and maybe a table runner from the Avalon charm packs, the 30s prints will probably find themselves in my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt and the patterns are sampler patterns that I plan on updating with scrappy modern fabrics (but not anytime soon seeing as how I have way too many ongoing projects as it is) What have YOU been working on?

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Happy Mother's Day

My computer still isn't fixed. Hopefully this week it will be working again.

In the meantime I want to share a little about myself.

I know there are quilters today that don't have the luxury of owning heirloom quilts. Quilters who didn't have a long line of quilters in their family. I'm not one of them. My great grandmother made quilts, both my grandmothers. I'm lucky to have some of these quilts. And most importantly my mother made quilts.

Unfortunately I never shared this love with my mother when she was alive. I didn't learn to quilt until after she had passed away. While she was alive I couldn't sew anything besides a button, and I had no desire to learn. I wish I had. There are lots of things I wish for now that she isn't here. I hope she is proud of me, and this love of quilting I have found.

Happy Mother's Day to my mom in Heaven and to all of the wonderful mother's out there.

MORE Works In Progress

I added some more projects to my ever growing list of WIPs. Also my computer has crashed and won't boot. So I'm posting this from my iPhone. Hopefully I will be able to figure out the problem with my computer (or find someone who can).

I joined the bandwagon and started making a couple St Louis 16 Patch blocks. I made mine with 3.5" strips though, so each square finishes 3" and blocks are 12.5" unfinished. I've put those on hold for now to finish up a few other things, but they come together really quickly and I'm sure I can have the top done in a few hours once I sit down and devote the time to it.

I also started cutting into my AMH and Kaffe Fassett fabrics. I honestly can't remember where I saw those blocks or what they are called. I want to say Starburst but I've been searching and can't find it. I remember the sewing the quilt on someone's blog and then again on Pinterest and I sketched it out, making a mental note to find the pattern but to no avail. So I drew up my own pattern. I think my blocks may be larger than the original quilt I saw. They will finish at 20". I wanted big blocks to show off the fabrics.

I also spent some time adding to my Scrappy Trip Along quilt. I need several more blocks to make it big enough but I am loving how it has turned out so far.

And of course my Grandmother's Flower Garden. I am starting to think it will always be considered a WIP. I decided this week that it isn't going to be big enough the way I had originally planned it, and I've decided to add 2 more rows and add one flower to each row. So now I'm back to making flowers. I ordered some new fabric this week just for the extra flowers to make it even scrappier. I will have 94 flowers, that is 658 hexagons for the flowers alone. This quilt is going to end up with around 1000 pieces!!!!! Whew. I'm insane.

MIA

Sorry I've been MIA lately. I've been extremely busy (but that isn't new, is it?) I of course have a dozen projects going on, work and the hustle and bustle of every day life.

This is where I spent this past weekend. (I promise to be back with quilty pics later this week)

Some Decent Pictures

I haven't had a lot of finishes this year, not nearly as many as I would like, but I have been working on a lot of things lately. I've been posting half crappy pictures of things that I have taken on my phone, or in bad lighting, etc. So today my sister used her fancy new camera to take some good pictures of what I've finished and what I've been working on lately. Thankfully the weather cooperated with us as well (I was starting to get tired of all the bad weather)
And I finally figured out how to get her pictures uploaded to my blog (she was having trouble sending them to me)

Another Pillow and some other things

If you recall I got some pretty scraps in the mail last week, and I had been basically salivating over them since. I knew I wanted to make some more pillow covers, and I also wanted to do all the piecing improv. There is something relaxing about improv piecing that I enjoy. This is what I came up with.

 

I'm already in love with it. My boyfriend told me I'm going to have more pillows than Jeannie (You know, from I Dream of Jeannie? He's a little corny but I love him.)

 



 

I also made a new pincushion, and a little cushion for my wrist at work. (They are like little pillows, and you know how much I LOVE pillows!)

 

And look what came in the mail today!!!! My Anna Maria Horner Field Study (And some Amy Butler Lotus there on top!) I have some more on its way, another of the leopard print colorways and some AMH Lou Lou Thi and Innocent Crush, along with some low volume text prints. Still not exactly sure what pattern I plan on using, I am tossing around ideas in my head and hope to decide on something soon.

A Late Birthday Present (To Myself)

I read Katy Jones' blog I'm A Ginger Monkey voraciously. And I love how she uses Anna Maria Horner fabrics. I love pretty much everything she does. Seeing all the wonderful projects she has completed with Field Study has sparked me to take a leap of faith. I have been admiring these fabrics for a while now, and decided to go with it. I am still not sure what pattern I want to use, but here are the fabrics I decided on. I also added in some Kaffe Fassett fabrics to round out some of the colors. I think they work well with the AMH.

 





I also bought some delicious text prints, because I just couldn't resist.

(From left to right: Timeless Treasures Library Script Cream, Riley Blake Polka Dot Stitches Words Grey, Timeless Treasures Sewing and Knitting Motifs White)

I've been debating back and forth which pattern I want to use, I thought at first using the X Plus Quilt Along tutorial, or the Anna Maria Horner Spinning Stars Free Pattern, and then I thought of drawing one up myself. I thought of using the same pattern I used for my Halloween Strippy quilt, but making it bigger and using wider strips to show off the fabrics, but then I remembered how much I hated cutting all those strips. So I am still undecided. But I have enough other projects to keep me busy for a while anyway. I have plenty of time to think about it.

What pattern would you use???