Mosaic fun

Saturday's Black and White Mosaic class was fun. This version of a stained glass look uses strip piecing methods and goes pretty quickly. You make squares like this, then put them together with sashings for the final quilt.

Lots of great colors!

 I am off today, so plan on sewing most of the day. While I was making the Lotus quilt, I could see a pattern the blocks make that looks like flowers, if the coloring is placed differently, so I cut out some more jewels yesterday using the HexNMore ruler. I want to play a little with the patterns you can get by placing the colors in different arrangements. I will try to remember to take pictures as I go...I do play around with different settings a lot but don't always remember to take pictures of the steps.

I went to Mangelson's yesterday and got more of the small dot print to make more pillows for the library. I was glad they still had it as it was on the clearance wall. If you live in this area, they have a nice selection on their clearance wall right now at 30 & 40% off.

A black and white finish...

I was bound and determined to get this quilt finished last night, so I came home from work, ignored the floor that needed cleaned and the dishes in the sink and got started right away. Here are the large rows I sewed together on Sunday. I got the top finished, then had to decide if I wanted a border or not.

I liked it without the border, but it was just shy of being twin size, so I decided I might as well add a small border so that it would definitely fit a twin. I had this larger floral print in black and white...Conrad liked it so it was a go!

I got it finished and hung for a photo op. It was dark outside, so I will get better pix later. I just couldn't wait!

Guess who is behind the quilt? Smokey has to investigate! After I got this finshed, I worked on a new hexie project for a little while. Hope to get it finished tonight.

My brother-in-law is doing well, thanks to those that expressed concern. 

Black and white, and pink all over....

I got some more work done on the black and white quilt last night. I have all of the rows sewn together and started joining them with the sashing. Hopefully I will get it finished tonight. I don't know if I am going to add a border or not. It is close to twin size, so I probably will add a border so that it could be used on a twin bed. I have a pretty black and white large print floral I can use.

I think I moved some more pieces around after this picture, but this gives you an idea of what it will look like.  You basically make similiar blocks, then join with sashing. I like this version of this type of quilt because you do a lot of strip piecing, then joining so it goes pretty fast. I haven't made any other quilts from the Turning Twenty series, but this one caught my eye.

We got some scary news last night. My brother in law underwent emergency heart bypass surgery. He was a very lucky man, he had 3 blockages that were at 90 - 100%. He was on the road, started having chest pains and drove himself to the hospital. Things are looking good this morning, hopefully his recovery will go well.