Neapolitan

While Shooting Star is being basted, I'm working on a quilt for our guest bedroom.
 My daughter chose the colours and fabrics to complement a picture on the wall.
I suggested the pattern, and then did lots of math to work out the sizes of the squares and how to put them together into manageable sections.

Here's how it looks so far:

The squares can fit together in lots of different combinations and orientations, and that gives me the really random look I wanted. DD doesn't like random and keeps trying to impose order!

I made lots of progress on the squares at a recent quilt retreat, and had some great advice about including the largest squares. Without that advice I wouldn't be so far on with the quilt. I estimate I have about 2/3 of the squares I need.

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Till next time,

Sue

Shooting Star

Shooting Star. That is what I'm going to call this quilt. If I ever make another 4 inch sawtooth star again... you get the picture!

Excitement! I finished the quilt top, pieced the back and it is ready to be basted. This quilt is big, seriously big. It is 90 by 94 inches. There is no floor space here big enough to lay it out, without moving furniture.

 Basting is harder for me than quilting. How to get 3 large, unwieldy pieces together without creases , folds or puckers. Yikes! I've tried pinning quilts, I've tried basting spray - both horizontal and vertical. Recently I bought a tagging gun, you know, the plastic thread that holds a price tag to a garment. All these things are problems: how to lay out the quilt sandwich, how to join it together,  how to deal with my aching back and knees.

This time I have taken it to the longarmer to be basted. Then I'll be able to have some fun quilting this monster ! Perhaps that is my basting answer. What do you do???

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Sue

Spinning or Spiraling

I was so excited to make this block for this month in Sew. Bee. Create.  The fabric is so cute, Christmas theme - snowflakes look good at this time of year!  Melissa of Happy Quilting designed the block, called Spinning or Spiraling.

Here is mine:

and here is Melissa's block from her tutorial which you can find here









The block looks great in all the fabrics Melissa chose.
You can see more on the Sew.Bee.Create Flickr page. Best of all, it was fun to make!

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Sue

May Bee Block

Or that could be "maybe block": it's been so long since I posted. Well now I'm home from traveling, and getting better from the non-fatal ailments I caught, yay! So I hope to get my quilting moxie back and keep up with the posts.

I'm still working on my Oh My Stars quiltalong. All the blocks are made, and when it is put together I will devote a whole post to it on its own. After all those stars, it deserves a new post.

Meantime I completed the blocks for May for Sew.Bee.Create. We received 3 fat quarters of lovely Kona solids, and were to create a block that should be wonky. It was fun deciding what to do, and I chose a block from Modern Blocks. Strangely enough so did another member of the Bee, the very same block. What a coincidence!

Here is a picture of mine, I made 2 15" blocks, and added a few bits of my own solids.

Till next time,

Sue