Singularity Round Three

I am a member of Triangle MQG and we are doing our very first guild QAL using the Singularity quilt from the MQG. After 3 rounds, my quilt top is now 48" square. I am just loving my fabric palette and how the design and placement of the darker fabric suggest depth in the quilt.

Watching it grow has been fun - from 12.5" square(round 1) to 24.5" square (round 2). 

There is one more round using 8" finished HST that would bring the quilt to 80" square. Since I don't need a quilt that big, I am not going to do round 4. This quilt will stay as a quilt top for a bit while I think about whether I want it bigger or not. 

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Sunflower Farm

I love making Elizabeth Hartman's patterns as baby gifts - this is Farm Fab - and sewing these animals and sunflowers was incredibly fun. I worked on them on retreat with friends and got to pin each finished animal on the design wall as they were completed.

The chicken was my favorite - such personality! - that I added another chicken to the back of the quilt.

Each year, Raleigh plants fields of sunflowers in Dix Park and come July, they are in full bloom and ready for visits. I like to take a quilt there each year and thought this one was perfect given there were sunflowers in the quilt! (See my sunflower quilt photos: Echo from 2023, Linked in 2019, and my granny square blanket last summer.)

The sunflowers were definitely taller this year than they have been in the past. We were there at 7pm and temperatures were in the upper 90s. (Note to self not to do that next time.)

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Bee Quilt - The Jetsons! (update 2)

Top Row: @sarahgoerquilts, @ellynz, @eacox24, and @scarf.mama

Bottom Row:  @bysarahruiz, @elizabethkray, @feltlikesweets, and @jenngeorgeburt

The Jetson's was my prompt for my year 2 @unscriptedquiltsbee bee mates. Using a color palette from the series, I asked bee members to be inspired by shapes and make a simple block surrounded that shape with background fabric. (Think square-in-a-square but instead with an irregular shape.) Everyone was sent a FQ of Painter's Palette Lapis.

As you can see, they hit it out of the park - the different blocks are just so much fun!

Although I'm not sure of my final layout, I do enjoy spreading them all over the floor to test out different ideas while I wait for the last two sets of blocks arrive.

Have a wonderful day! Patty