Hello Virtual Quilters! I've finished the projects I was working on last time and am at my Mom's taking care of her after back surgery. Since I'm here for an extended duration -- today is just over two weeks, I'll be able to go home for Saturday (hubby working will be able to sew, maybe), Sunday, Monday and come back here again on Tuesday after my small group, and then back out here for another two weeks. My brother who recently retired is here and is having his gall bladder out on Wednesday... he thinks since it is just day surgery he'll only need a couple of days recovery... Like I said, I'm planning on being here another two weeks...
So my current project I'm calling Wonky Brights. The end result will be a twin sized donation project that I sort of see going to an 8-14 year old girl but who knows? I will find a group that lets the people select their quilts because it won't appeal to everyone, personally I call it "too loud to sleep under". I bought a large bag of scraps at the Goodwill that are nothing special, mostly remnants of fat quarters from Walmart and Joann that don't particularly appeal to me but as a collection work together. I'm making 9-patches with straight 90 degree angles but the squares are all different sizes and I'll be making the blocks large (10-12") and then trimming them down with my 8.5" square in various ways, skewed, from the corners, etc. The end result should be a glorious riot of color and print and look much more like a crazy quilt than a 9-patch.
I'm usually more on the OCD side of quilting but I'm inspired by one of the ladies in my small group who is an improvisational quilter. Her work always looks fantastic in the end even if her blocks aren't exact and such -- My personal name for this project is "Harriet Drives Me Wonky".
Today's task is to make the last 70 3-patch units before I start joining the 3-patch unit into 9-patches. I did some more cutting yesterday and I am coming to the end of the scrap bag but I have enough (I hope!). So today I sew! Well, after we get back from the Doctor's appt.
No way to post pictures from here, I don't have the right cord to connect my old school but Digital camera to the Mac but maybe I can post from home in the next day or two.
Keep quilting, my friends!