Half Square Triangles

I'm helping my friend Elisabeth make her very first quilt, and I think that it is going to be absolutely gorgeous.

Wedding Quilt

My friend Anna is getting married next summer, and that means that I'm making her and Morgan a wedding quilt. With my levels of procrastination, I need to start working on it *now.* I have the first step out of the way- picking colors, fabrics, and a pattern. They'll be receiving a queen sized Take 5 quilt in browns, blues and yellows.

Take 5

In January, I finally experienced the joy of finishing my first quilt. I used to Take 5 pattern- you are supposed to choose *5* fabrics that you like, and have a nice, orderly quilt. I broke the rules. I kept finding more and more fabrics that I liked, so finally I decided, "Heck with being orderly! I'm using all of these!"

I used a striped homespun for the binding, cutting it on the bias, to make it diagonal.
I rather like it!

*photos by my mother.

More Quilts

A few projects that ladies from my quilt club were working on:

A sweet project that I was able to catch a glimpse of.

Black and white "Trip Around the World." I'm in love.

A member of our quilt club recently moved away, so many of us made her a quilt block. We'll send them to her and let her assemble them any way that she wants. I won't tell which one is mine. =)

Patriotic Stars

Jabez Quilt Retreat

I recently attended a quilting retreat with Mama and our quilt club. Here are photos of the retreat/projects that were being worked on.

Criss Cross, Too.

Mary Lou's spools.

Grape Basket.

Flower Garden pieces.

Take Five.

Trip Around the World.

Thimbleberries.

Bowties.

Patriotic Stars.

Take Five.

Flower Garden

Applique Umbrellas.

Printing Fabric

Our dance group is participating in a dance festival this week and I was asked to make a quilt block to represent our group.

I grabbed some fabric scraps and searched for a quick pattern. I ended up making my own variation of a 12 inch Churn Dash.

Mom suggested printing the middle block. So I did!

I took a piece of card stock paper and put double sided tape all over it- smoothed out fabric to fit and voila! It was quite fun. My points don't match up, and I used red thread (my signature) to sew it together. I think it'll work out fine, after it is all quilted.

Quilt Shoppe

There is a local quilt shoppe that I absolutely adore. An old farmhouse turned into a fabric shop. A roomy classroom has been added on for quilting classes. (Which I also adore.)

A cozy kitchen for eating potluck lunches.

A whole room full of Civil War fabrics. The row of pinks is my favorite.

Fat quarters, cutting table, and *always* lots of pleasant chatter.

30's reproductions. *love*

How to choose?

I love these greens!

...and these pinks!