Showing posts with label accuquilt contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accuquilt contest. Show all posts

Saturday, April 7, 2012

A starter day...


 I sewed the stripsets together for the Hollow Cube, Too, quilt on Tuesday, so I was ready to start cutting them into triangles yesterday. This is one set of three colors. I can see this quilt will be somewhat labor intensive, like the tumbling blocks, but it will be worth it in the end.
I also cut the matching flat trapezoids. Next step, sew them to the triangles! Maybe later...
Then I sewed the back together for this baby quilt. I am using this border fabric on the back. You can't really see the design here, I will look at the name of the panto later and fill you in. I think it looks like the top of a palm tree, so thought it would look great on this one.  I got one row quilted when my daughter called and asked me if I wanted to go shopping.  So that is as far as I got with it. I plan on working on it later as well. 

I designed a quilt block for the Accuquilt Barn Quilt Design Contest, so have been working on it too. You can turn in the computer file picture of it, so that is what I did, but I wanted to make it as well. I finished the paper pieced middle the other night, only to discover that the paper had moved a bit (I was using the freezer paper method and didn't notice until it was too late). So I have to redo two parts of that section, which wouldn't be that big of a problem except I used fabrics from my stash, so don't have a lot left of a couple of them. Hopefully it will work out. I am giving it (or me) a couple of days to chill.... They will post the top 100 blocks on April 11 and open it up for voting, so I will let you know if I make it into that group!

Lots to do today...better get busy!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Exciting news! I'm a finalist!




I got some exciting news today....I am one of the top 100 finalists in the Accuquilt Barn Quilt Contest. This is the block I entered. It is one of the blocks I designed for the new Sampler Quilt I recently completed. Please follow this link and like my block! If I win, it will become a barn quilt at the Accuquilt headquarters in Fremont, NE. 

I have been working on a new design for a mystery quilt. I posted pix of the fabrics awhile 
back. I am almost finished with it, just have to add the borders. I am planning a class with 3 sessions to give everyone a chance to make this mystery and also keep them guessing! I haven't taught a mystery quilt for a couple of years, so it should be fun. Sorry I can't post pix of it, you might tell!  

 I have also been working on the Circle and Spin quilt for my daughter. Here are the blocks I have done so far.

I love asian prints! Can you use too many in one quilt?
 So vibrant, so alive...


...is it wrong to love fabric this much?