Finished

This just needed the binding, but now it's FINISHED! Woohoo!

I left this quilt at Cinnamon's while I'm away. It's made from mostly batiks with a few other fabrics tossed in for the right flow of color.  It was fun to make.

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Oh yes, the Holiday Season

So much to do that the blog has taken a back seat. Well, here are some pics of what I've been doing.

More blocks

Still more blocks. These are free-form cut, and I've cut the curve way too sharp. It's a challenge getting these to lie flat.

These blocks are now a top.

 Yep. Still more blocks. I get in moods where I want to sew but not think. This is when I'll sew blocks for simple quilts.

Prisma is now a top. Yay!

This is a full top now. More pics soon.

 Same here. I think you'll be surprised at the difference the border made.

 Scrapolator blocks. Such fun!

The blocks on the left are straight from the scrap pile; no thinking. The ones on the right are all brights. Isn't the difference amazing?

 I have 29 of each set done (true scrappy, and brights) I love them!

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Oh yes, I've been busy

Thanksgiving sort of shook up the routine, but I've been working away on my projects.

All the blocks for the third design-your-own are finished and ready to be made into a top.

Blocks for a group quilt. This will be cool with stripped sashing. It's all batiks.

The inside of Prisma is put together. Ready for the first border, and the outer border, which is more strata.

Slowly but surely. Plugging away at the in-process pile. The holidays are upon us, but hopefully I can still keep plugging away at the stack.

Thanksgiving at "the crik" was fun, as always. Burgers on the grill, and a turkey, and family/friends. How could it be bad? I hope yours was as much fun as ours.

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Fun, and progress

I'm still playing with a number of different projects. Gosh it's fun to work this way! No boredom. Even the not-so-fun parts of quilting are easier to take when I know I only have to do a little of it before I can jump into the next thing. (Note: this doesn't work for people who get over-angst'ed by having more than one project going at a time.)

I finished the last of the "big" Safari blocks (4 shown here). Now I can put this top together. I'm still thinking it's going to need something else. Buttons? Some applique? I'll know more when I see the whole thing put together.

 More Scrap-o-lator blocks. I'm really enjoying these, even when they get wonkified. I have 11 so far. The pattern calls for 91, but I don't want to make a quilt that large so I'll need only 72. I see more than one of these quilts in my future. Such a fun way to use scraps!

 More blocks from the third design-your-own quilt. This one has a Halloween theme.

 I got more of Prisma put together. I still don't like that upper left corner. I think the purple shouldn't be broken up with that yellow; the purple should be a straight line. What do you think?

 The lower left corner got put together.

 I found these pieces while digging through more STUFF. (I have a lot of stuff). The first pic is of parts made in my class with Jean Wells at Empty Spools earlier this year. I think I'm ready to make a couple of small works from them.

 The triangles were made in Gwen Marston's class (also at Empty Spools earlier this year). They have potential ... I'm not sure what yet, but I like them.

Finding Stuff

I took a deep breath and dove into the Closet of the Great Unknown Projects the other day. I was looking for one specific project, and (oh snap, what a surprise!) found others I'd forgotten about. I've been having such fun just playing. Work a little on one, a little on the next. Never bored that way. Here's what I've been up to.

Prisma is still in pieces -

but not as many ...

The upper left corner is together. I'm not sure it'll stay that way, but for now at least there's progress.

I've made more of the big Safari blocks

Oh looky! I found some New York Beauty blocks. Playtime!

I actually went looking for this Tree of Life. I started it years and years ago and decided to get to work on it again.

Well. I got one more row added.

There's no real pattern, so I'm guessing on a lot of the parts. That upper left corner presents a challenge, so who knows what will happen, but it's still fun to play with.

Speaking of fun - I started making some Scrap-o-lator blocks (from the book of the same name, by Dianne Springer). Wow, what a blast these are!

Here's the last of my recent shop-hop stash

And here's my Crate and Barrel booty

Yep, that impromptu shop hop (which included Crate & Barrel, and Ikea) was not one of my least expensive weekends. Fun anyway.

And that's what I've found. Can't wait to see what I do next.

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More blocks and another UFO sneaks into the fray

A few more blocks for the design-your-own quilt got made today.

Also, I started playing with another UFO (Prisma) using strata. I had all the strata made and the blocks cut from them, but I don't like the way it looked on the design wall, so I made more strata.

I'm off to the quilt show in West Palm Beach tomorrow, so the strata will have to wait till next week. (Funny what you see in pictures that you don't see "in the raw"; that light pink strip sorta screams at me. The rust/orange was intentional. I probably could've used another transitional strip from the turquoise to the pale blue. Good lesson: lay out the strips then take a photo before sewing everything together.

It's quite cool this evening. I enjoy it so much, because we get so little cool weather here. I hope your weather is pleasant.

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