Thread: November - Rhonda's Quilt Block Swap! - Sign up now til Nov 1st!

Shelly,

No problem I completely understand. Sounds like your busy quilting. I have to say I'm jealous lol. I was looking at longarms but not something within my budget so I just quilt on my home sewing machine.

Originally Posted by sgardner

1) I'm in for December, if we are still on.

2) Josykatz- yes, I did get your block. Sorry for not posting sooner. This month, I had 3 quilts on my Long Arm- I am not normally that packed in, but it just turned out that way. One was a Bronze Star Quilt, one was a Purple Heart Quilt, and the third was a patriotic one that is going to a widow who lost her husband earlier this year in Afghanistan. That made my blocks a tiny bit late.

3) The two blocks I owe will be mailed by the end of this week, I promise. (probably with a little something extra for being late.)

Shelley

Looks like I'm having a bit of trouble posting. Some doubleclick ad keeps hanging the page so I"ll try againl.

I'm looking forward to the new block swap and I'm happy to have Shelly as a partner again. I really owe her a new block. Since I'm pretty new to this I had some troubles with the block I sent her. After I sent it my Sister in law came to visit to see my newly fixed up quilting room. She is an artist with a great eye for color. I had her look at the photos and I took of my blocks and ask for her truthful opinion. Seems I didn't do so well with my color choices. Thou it was more about the hue and dark vs light of my blocks. Too bad she didn't get a chance to see it before I sent it.

I'll post a photo of my blocks. I sent one to Shelley and one to stitchengramie. Very sad looking colors lol




The pink in the middle doesn't match at all.



Doesn't have enough light to dark contrast.

Rhonda,

Thank you so much for your advice and the tutorials. I will definitely use them while I make my next blocks. I'm creating my own pattern for a kimono quilt for my mother in law. It is very easy with just plain blocks and HST to make a picture of a kimono.

Here is a photo of what I designed using the Quilter's app for the IPad. I'm not using the colors shown, I just put them in there for the purpose of seeing if it would work. I'm going to make it with borders and sashing and different fabric for each of the kimono blocks themselves. I've seen a few patterns on the internet but they were all paper piecing and I'm not ready to try that technique yet.

I just received my block from Shelly. It was beautiful and she added a lovely Christmas tree pieced card.