School Colors

My niece is off to her freshman year of college this fall and I wanted to send her off in style.  Her school colors blue and yellow-gold.  While the fabrics I choose don't really map to the proper shade of blue or yellow-gold, they make me happy when I look at them together.

And the gift made her happy too.

I love making this boxy bag for gifts.  See my post on tips for making these bags here and here.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

The Home Stretch

90 blocks to share.  (The rest are done but will be revealed later this month.)

I've really used up much of the FQ pack I started with.  There won't be much left once this is all done!

Blocks 1 to 20,

blocks 21 through 40,

blocks 41 - 60

and blocks 61-80!

For my project, I am using this FQ bundle of Pastel Pop by Michael Miller which was sitting in my stash. These fabrics are the ONLY yellow I've got in my stash other than a bit in a solid.

Read more about the QAL here and follow along on Instagram with #100Days100Blocks2017.  You can find the 100 Modern Quilt Blocks book on Amazon.

Photo credit to Angie

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Experimenting with Circles

I have a quilt design in my head which involves circles.

Lots of them, overlapping all over the quilt in many colors.  But before I tackled the project, I decide to make a smaller version to test out both my hand drawn templates as well as my true interest in creating a quilt with circles.

This mini finishes at 12'' square and used up scraps I had leftover from other projects.  The larger circles are pieced and the smaller ones are raw edge applique.

The last curved piecing project I did ended up with much bulk in the intersections so I redrew the template to reduce this bulk.  This new template solved that problem but didn't actually give me the look I wanted.  So back to the drawing board I go.

But I still have this wonderful mini with fabrics I really enjoy.

While I was enjoying all the wonderful quilts on display at QuiltCon, I saw many hanging without a binding - something I had not seen before.  My Experimental Circles mini was a perfect one to try the technique out on since a binding would end up chopping off parts of the circle.  This way, the circle just flows off the edge.

I found this post and this one to be helpful in learning how to face a quilt.  I fudged my way through the corners and found this video afterwards on handling the corners afterwards which would have been quite useful.

Now I need to attach a hanging sleeve so I can put it on the wall.

I'll be linking up my mini with  Freemotion by the River,   WIP Wednesday's,  Let's Bee Social, Midweek Makers.  Needle and Thread Thursdays, Finish it Up Friday and Finished or Not Friday.

Have a wonderful day! Patty