Pillow!

I made a pillow.  I put the little wonky log cabin blocks together at the Guild sew in on Saturday.  It was my first sew in.  More on that later.  I used a bunch of blue solids for the blocks and then on Sunday morning I out the rest of it together and by 2 pm, when Mum and I were due at a friend's for tea, I was done!

I can tell you that I was inspired by a pillow I saw over on Leanne's blog.  I loved her pillow.  I quilted the pillow very closely on the front in Aurifil 50 wt in white, avoiding the log cabin blocks.  And on the back I used a medium gray Aurifil 50 wt.  Mum thought the quilting made the back fabric look like pin striped fabric.  The pillow has an envelope back and it just makes me happy.

 I used an 18" square pillow form and there is a bit of wiggle room in it but I think it will be okay.  I am going to link up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.  It was a lot of fun to start something and have a finish the next day.  Gotta love that!

And for the sew in.  Here is what I now know.  There was a lot of fabulous food.  Yum!  There were lots of sewing machines.  Great door prizes.  Lovely buntings to swap.  Awesome show and tell.  People were making lovely things and it was just a whole lot of fun.  I had to get over my habit of grabbing more or different fabric as I go along because you cannot travel with everything!  I think next time, I will make sure I have a quilt on the go and just make a whole bunch of blocks.  I did make the log cabin blocks for this pillow and a bunch of scrap slabs for journal covers but I think working on something a tad more structured would work better for me at a sew in.  And that is what I have learned.  It was so much fun!

Have a lovely rest of your day!

Flea Market Sunday... Thanks Mum!

All my flea market finds are courtesy of my Mum.  Thanks, Mum!  This is a stunning Arcopal milk glass serving bowl.  Arcopal is a very fine French milk glass.  So lovely.  Mum paid about $4 for it at her local thrift store.  Good shopping, Mum!

Be still my beating heart!  Look at all the canisters!  Mum said, "What should I do with all these canisters?"  I said, "Bring them to me!"  So she did.  The sunflower set above was a Mum garage sale find and the rest are Mum originals.  Meaning they were Mum's from way back.  Maybe even wedding or shower gifts.  Mum said she is still using the large one of the blue flowers with wheat so I can't have that one yet.  It is her flour canister.  I can wait!

Happy rest of your day!

Ah, aren't they just so cute?

We gathered yesterday for a wedding.  One of my niece's became the first of the cousins to get married.  It was a stinking hot day but the setting was lovely!  The fact that we were all gathered was lovely too and it was super wonderful to be able to take a picture of our children with their significant others.  From the left is clever son's lovely girlfriend, clever son, daughter's special someone and our darling "nursey" daughter.  I do hope they will forgive me for sharing this.  Sorry kids but sometimes Mum just has to brag.

Today was a full day sew in for my quilt guild!  It was so much fun and I will have lots of sharing.  Happy weekend!

Kona Modern Quilts Baby Modern

It's a wrap!  I finished Modern Baby the other evening and popped it up on the barn wall yesterday after work for some quick pictures.  I used my half yard of Cynthia Frenette's Kona Modern Quilts for Robert Kaufman that I took home for a guild challenge.  The challenge was to make something using the fabric and any other prints from the line or any Kona solids but no other fabric.  I stewed and I waffled.  Then I stewed and waffled some more and then I finally chopped up the half yard into 5" squares and the rest just followed.

I used Kona Artichoke, Ash, Coal, Ruby and Sunflower!  I quite love it.  I used a light variegated grey 50 wt  Aurifil for the quilting.  I quilted straight lines, vertically only.  Snazzy!!!!!!

The back has wide stripes of the solids. Scrappy binding using the same solids and the whole quilt finishes at about 45" by 54".

Have a super Friday!

Using up the scraps...

I took the leftovers from the Kona Modern Quilts challenge modern baby quilt and put them together.  Made a slab of patchwork.  Added a lining.  Made a journal cover.

So snazzy!!!!!  I do like making covered journals and I do like using up the leftovers.

Feels like fall!

Well, not really because it is super sunny and hot but I did survive the first day of school!  It went swimmingly!  I do have a finish and that is my "Feels Like Fall Quilt!"    I made this out of a sample pack of scraps of something in all those rich reds and a bit of French General tone on tone.  I used a solid cotton in rich burgundy for the binding and a gold cross weave with a bit of Etchings in cream.  The quilt is a nice lap quilt size at 60" by 60".  I quilted it in close straight lines with Aurifil 50 wt in cream.  I love the texture this close, straight line quilting gives to a quilt.

I cut the fabric samples in strips and made rail fence blocks which I then organized in an alternating pattern.

 And just so you know, I am "Miss September" over at the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild's website!  Tee hee hee!

Linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story!  Have a lovely rest of your day!

I was brave!

I finally decided what to do with my half yard of Kona Modern Quilts designed by Cynthia Frenette fro Robert Kaufman.  It is for a guild challenge and I need to be done by October and I could only use Kona solids or other prints in this line.  Eek! I was waffling on what to do since it is not a huge chunk of fabric.  I added a few solids to the stash over the last few weeks but I had some troubles getting exact matchy matchy solids in our neck of the woods.  But I did have solids that worked.  I cut the Kona Modern Quilts into 5" squares, gathered my chosen solids and just got busy.  I think it looks just great and it is going to be a very contemporary baby quilt when I am all finished.  This is it spread all over the design bed!

And just so you know, Cynthia is one of our guild founders!  We get to brush shoulders with her famous-ness!!  Or fame-itude.  Or famous-ity.  Just plain loveliness.

I used Kona Artichoke, Sunflower, Ruby, Ash and Coal.  Each 5" square is framed in 2" strips of the solids. It was interesting to be restricted to fabrics that met the criteria and it was was challenging to come up with a plan within the restrictions.  I felt so much better once I had cut it into squares.  It was strangely a relief!  then I just went for it.

Linking with Judy's Design Wall!