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This beautiful quilt top was what Bobbi F was working on at the next table over from me. These are all Japanese fabrics that she scored at a thrift shop for a very small sum of money!! Gorgeous!
Can you believe this beautiful set of appliqued squares by one of our members made in wool? She is another evacuee from the cold north (Buffalo). Again, beautiful!
Too bad we didn't have a design wall. She got some advice from our very gifted Michele May who arranged this lovely day for us.
A lovely neonatal quilt from another x-Rochesterian!! The back was a really interesting fabric that she purchased at Walmart of all places!
A beautiful art quilt that a member brought to ask for advice on. Both Becky and I suggested our un-orthodox solution for when you are irritated by a thread color after you have done the sewing -- Sharpies! I don't think she needed to change the color of the thread though.
Here is Becky with a quilt she made using scraps given to her by a friend. The design is of course her own!!
And speaking of Becky, I spent the day making "stack and whack" hexagons out of two fabrics that Becky had donated for the Sweet Charity quilts. This was one set that I only partially finished. I also did 48 from another fabric. I have to say that using fabric that has been washed really helped in the stacking and pinning of the fabrics. I never wash fabrics before using them, but Becky does. They seemed to grip each other better and made for more perfect hexagons. These were cut from 5 1/2 inch strips as the repeat on the fabric was 18 inches. I will share later a picture of the fabric. After I completed these, I thought I should have used smaller strips but seeing the altogether, they look just fine!
Here are all 30 of the hexagons. I think they will make a Sweet Charity sized quilt and a neonatal quilt!
I have always disliked this particular yellow printed fabric for some reason but have quite a bit of it and decided it would be okay for this quilt. I have sewn the rows in this picture. I will had thin strips of yellow to the right and left and then a small strip of fuchsia and then a medium green border and call it done. Pictures to follow!
Last year I took a class with Augusta Cole and made this disappearing hexagons quilt. I cut lots and lots of strips of course and as usual over-achieved. This has happened before.... So I thought I would share in one place the quilts that I have made so far from the leftovers!
This was the first made from those scraps and nicknamed the "Quilt from Hell".
I then started on baby quilts and this was the first. I did add white for the light in this one.
I have finished one of these and am currently working on the second. The long strips came from long ago project that produced two king sized quilt with this left over!
This and the next one were also from those same original strips and also cutting some squares.
Pinterest is a great source for finding simple patterns which is where I found the pictures that I translated into these last four quilts.
There are only a few strips left and I may just sew them together to make "fabric" which I will use somewhere!
I also have about 100 four-patches left over from the "coins" quilt above!! Haven't decided what to do with them yet!!
Then to start working on baby quilts from the leftovers from making the black and white quilts!!
Next weekend is our Azalea Festival down here in NC. Dianne's azaleas were just gorgeous yesterday as a backdrop for our ice dyeing. We couldn't have had more perfect weather!!
This is the way I normally do ice dyeing. I layer some fabric down on top of a random piece of fabric (to prevent the grate marks on the mandalas) and then put another random piece on top of the mandalas, cover it all with a layer of ice and then sprinkle dye on top of that.
I had seen an alternative technique on Facebook on a page called The Process of Ice Dyeing. Most people on this site apply the dye (and sometimes even the soda ash) on top of the fabric and then put dye on top of that and then finish it off with adding all the ice on top. I was leary of this as I don't like the speckles you get when you apply dye directly onto fabric. I think this technique might work better as many of their techniques are like the one I use for t-shirts, i.e.roll them up into a tight bundle kind of on edge so the flat fabric isn't really exposed much.
It was a 70 degree day and the ice all melted in about 3 hours which allowed us to take our fabrics home to sit overnight.
This and the next three are my random drop cloths. These were some 200 thread count muslin I got from Joanns years ago.
This and the next two were the 22 inch square mandalas. This first one used the "new" technique and there is some speckling which you can't really see in the picture.
This and the next ones are the smaller 11 inch square pieces.
These were the small pieces that were made using the new technique. You can definitely see the speckes on the bottom right on the bottom right side.
Finally finished this black and white quilt with small yellow, medium red and black border. It was a little tricky as the outsides of the squares are all on the bias so carefully measuring and calculating the length and width of the quilt was very important.
Just a quick view into my daughter's backyard to the pond she abuts. It was a beautiful day to sit outside and watch the birds!
We had a wonderful presentation by one of our members for our April program. Her name is Diana Welte and she shared a fascinating history of her career in sewing as well as pottery and bookbinding. She shared many examples of books she had done as well as a couple done by colleagues. The one pictured here is one of those done by a friend using a composition book as its base.
This and the following picture were of one of the books she had created The buttons are her creation as well.
Inside the cover.
This was one of a few accordion books..
As usual, there were lots of neo-natal quilts turned in this month. It is amazing how prolific this club is.
The above were just a few of the quilts that were walked quickly by. This one was probably my favorite though Have to figure out the pattern which is pretty simple. Think it is just a square surrounded on two sides by checkerboard but they are turned.
Dianne showing her pin cushion from Michele May's class. Below are other examples from the class. Looks just wonderful!
I don't have the names of many of the quilters but I m getting better! This was made for a couple who wanted a more neutral look. A nice quilt with which I am sure they will be very happy;
Really liked this improvisational quilt.
Another randomly pieced quilt!
Beautiful art quilt by Mary Harned.
This is a Quilt of Valor which will be a workshop that Miranda Dungan will be leading in May (I won't be here for this unfortunately).
A very large flower quilt -- gorgeous!!
This is a beautiful applique quilt by Ann Millard.
This is the first of the two black and white quilts I have been working on. It is in two pieces and I will quilt them separately and then sew them together. I am not going to put any borders on it. It is 87 x 80 and should fit on a queen or king bed even.
The amazing part of this quilt is that I had cut exactly the right number of four patches to make this quilt. I hadn't counted what I needed as I rarely do that with scrap quilts -- just keep making blocks. I was shocked when I had just the right number of blocks!
This is the second black and white and I will be adding borders to this one. Currently it is 70 x 70. It will probably be about 77 x 77 inches when done.
I still have a ton of fabric left with the first cuts done. I think they will eventually become some sort of comfort quilt. I will be quilting all of the above when I get back to Rochester. Looking at the picture I see another block I have twisted wrong!!
This one isn't sewn together yet. Weather is getting nicer and getting harder and harder to stay inside and sew!
Spent yesterday at my daughter's house and watched this Osprey coasting overhead. She always has an abundance of Blue Jays, Cardinals and Bluebirds as well as her Red-Shouldered Hawks, an occasional Cormorant and the Mallards in the pond.
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