Too quilt or not....

Too quilt or not, that is the question....I can't believe we are almost half way through the year. Darwin Patchworker's and Quilters are having their bi-annual exhibition in thirteen weeks...twelve weeks until quilts have to be completed and dropped.

So the question is which quilt shall I quilt? Don't ask me why I haven't started quilting anything!

Do I have time to quilt a king size quilt? I suspect no, not with working, and I have a couple of weekends away, but it is killing me that I have had this quilt top finished for THREE years and it is still not quilted.

The pattern for this quilt is from Material Obsession Two by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke, called Bluebirds and Happiness.

But is so big....

So very big....102" square...

But soo pretty :)

Am I prepared to go to quilting jail for 3 months and not work on anything else? Mmmm, I need to think about this a bit more!

Just for fun

The other day, after having a little day surgery done (removal of a mole from behind my ear) my mum decided I needed cheering up with a little colour, and bought me a couple of colourful fat quarters...

Nothing like a bit of yellow and orange to cheer oneself up...particularly paired with a spot and a bit of text....

So where are we going with this? Back in this post,  I mentioned that the kit for the "Sunburst" Quilt (Making Quilts ...promise of joy by Kathy Doughty), may be in my cupboard. I have been a bit scared of the all those pointy points and circular circles, so I busted out the templates from the kit and decided to have a go.

The block has come together surprisingly easy, and my points seem to be pointy!

The centre was a bit fiddly, but I am confident I can master it with better pinning, sewing the large circle into the floral background was very straight forward because it is a larger circle...

So maybe I should start on the kit!!! Sixteen blocks....it's a bit of a commitment! I might think about it for a bit more :)

Soul Searching - all blocks done!

It all started with my blog at the end of June...here...and I am down to the last two blocks - purple and brown. I was expecting to find the brown block the most difficult but it was the purples that I scrambled around for. At first I tried to pull out the purples with a blue base, and I came out with a paltry six different fabrics...and it wasn't until I relaxed and pulled out anything from purple/blue to purple/pink that I finally got this block together.

 And doesn't it look purdy with the sunlight behind it :)

And look at my "browns"...given that it is a colour I do NOT like, fancy me having so many different shades of brown in the stash!

Well I did cheat a little with a couple greys, and few tints of orange...but it  fits in well with the other blocks.

All the blocks look great together. I think I have used about 240 different fabrics in this quilt top.

So all nine blocks together...72x84 it is not small....but if I make it a little bigger, it can be a topper for my king size bed....maybe some borders ?

Decisions...decisions....

Don't forget the Soul Searching quilt pattern is from  Making Quilts - The promise of Joy by Kathy Doughty (Material Obsession) :)

Soul Searching - Yellow

Seven blocks down...two to go...brown and purple...it doesn't surprise me that the brown block is among the last to be done!

The yellow block was fun to do...I do love yellow...it's such a happy sunny colour...

Funnily enough, I don't have a lot of this colour in my stash...probably because I keep on using it...might have to "restash" :)

And seeing I know what the final layout will be I just had to sew together a row....it looks pretty good...I could start a new thing in outdoor patchwork banners! Except I wouldn't recommend hanging them off party lights!

Off to make the mess with brown and purple fabrics now!

Soul Searching - Blues

What a mess I made making these blocks....but fun working with blues! The paler blues are mainly scraps...

Quite pretty...but a bit on the light side!

These darker blues have a bit more drama about them....

This block had me pulling lots of fabrics from the stash...I was surprised how many darker blues I had...helped out by Kaffe Fassett and Keiko Goke fabrics!

In my earlier posts on the Making Quilts - the promise of joy by Kathy Doughty I neglected to say where the book could be found...the book is available at Quilt Mania and at Material Obsession....happy sewing :)