Sunday, February 26, 2012

What just happened?

What a hectic couple of weeks I have had...unfortunately not quilting related...but home renovations...my kitchen had gone from this....


to this....


Check out this beautiful laminate from Laminex...



As my kitchen man pointed out, he had matched the design from the benchtop to the edge, so the pattern flowed over the top...A man after my heart! Apparently it took him ages...but perfection often does! Hubby and my daughter like the pattern because it is bright, but my sons don't like it because it looks like fabric...so sad too bad!

We also had our flooring replaced so I had to empty my house into our "family room"...where is my sewing table?



There it is....quiet sobbing :(


But the good news is I will have my own little room to sew in...can't wait to get it set up...but wait... the painter who is coming in 2 weeks has just pulled up outside...he has had a job cancelled...can he start on Tuesday ??? Sewing room set up will have to wait another week...sigh...


In the mean time, I will wander around touching fabric and looking at magazines! So this isn't a completely quilt free post, check out the blocks I was sent from the second round of the 4x5 Modern Quilt Bee...


From Leila, who blogs @ Sewn by Leila



From Christina...



From Eva Marie in the Netherlands, who blogs here ...



From Anna...



From Jennifer, who blogs here ...



There are some clever and generous ladies out there! So now I have twelve blocks all together...


I think I will do a scrappy red, pink and orange checker board sashing...not sure when that will happen...but that's the idea at the moment....Now I am going to go and find some other project you haven't seen so I can do another post real soon!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

More fun with Regal Dapple

After last weeks post about my pink scraps quilt and the fabric I used for the sashing, Brandon Malby's Regal Dapple, that Dapple has been on my mind, so when I was reading this book...


And I saw this pillow, it's called SleepyHead...


I knew instantly that I wanted to use the Dapple as the background....so I pulled as many pastel Kaffe's as I had...


That in itself was a challenge because I tend buy the brighter red and pinks, but I am really happy with how this has turned out...have I told you before that Vliesofix is my best friend....

The pastels really pop against the dark background.



I used my Clover 1/4 bias tape tool for the first time, to make the vines...now that is a little tool worth making an investment in.


I am going to free motion quilt to outline the applique, at the moment the applique is ironed down with the fusible webbing (Vliesofix)...the problem is now I have a little voice in my head saying....make it into a quilt...make it into a quilt!!!




So I have the block pinned on a little curtain in front of my sewing machine so I can consider what I will do next...and of course the observant among you will have noticed I have about 15 little berries to apply.


Pillow or medallion quilt...what do you think?