Monday, August 30, 2010

Design Wall Monday 8-30-10 - The Wedding Quilt

My design wall today is a design countertop in my kitchen. This pile of bags and fabric is the wedding quilt I'm making for Laura and Ruben. So far I have about 70% of the fabrics cut out and sorted into one block per bag and I have the bags in order of color placement because that is key to this quilt design. Then I discovered I was 1/2 yard short on the white fabric. Uh Oh! Will try to remedy that situation today. I also made a test block using scraps just to see if I would run into any issues. I don't normally make a test block but I don't have much fabric overage in case of errors so I'm treading carefully.

Also on my design ironing board is the foundation paper pieced wall hanging "Sunshine" - it is the Maryland star from Carol Doak's book on the 50 stars of the 50 states. It will be 9 blocks plus a border of some kind that is yet to be decided. I worked on it yesterday evening then got up at 5 this morning to work on it a bit more. It should go together easily.






Over the weekend I finished this baby quilt (Megan Lee) for a neighbor. I don't typically do "baby" quilts because I feel the child outgrows them so quickly. I prefer to do something I hope the child can grow with. So, instead of using baby fabrics and pinks, I opted for a soothing green palette with a few pink flowers and even a bit of blue.



And I finished this quilt for my bed, "Summer's Folly". A totally unplanned effect was how well the quilt and my collection of glass hens go together. This is a random Irish Chain design made from shirting fabrics and a tone-on-tone white.
Next Monday I hope to be showing a finished "Sunshine" quilt top and major progress on the wedding quilt.

4 comments:

  1. I love the Summer's Folly quilt. It is perfect with your glass collection. Don't you love those unexpected bonuses :)

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  2. You definitely have been busy, great quilts. I like the "non-baby" baby quilt.

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  3. You have my curiosity up, now, about this wedding quilt. I'll be watching to see what it turns out to be.

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  4. Wow, you are great at finishes. I seem to be only good at starting things this year. Love the quilt on your bed--Irish chain is one of my all time faves.

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