jan22

Yes, that's just what I needed. I'll go search for the book. I just love anything abstract looking. Thanks. Jan

mgrhs

very cool yvonne

Harmony

LOVE the blues!

azdesertrat

Yvonne I have that book too,its great, I did Illusion(?) i think thats what its called its the black and white one.I love that book

Lucky Patsy's

I took a class that I thought was just a technique class, where I would learn to sew curved seams and Y seams, but it turned out to also be a design-your-own-pattern-class. I wasn't really looking to start a new project, but decided to try something for my quilt guild's challenge on the theme Angels Among Us. I drew up something with lots of curves illustrating a quote I found on the internet: We are each us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. I am crossing my fingers that it turns out flat enough to quilt! So far,so good.

Tiffany

Sewsue – Your UFO looks almost done. :D Your quilt is too adorable and I’m with the others, I can’t wait to see a close up of the finished quilt! Are you going to hand quilt it or machine quilt it?

Yvonne – I love that!!! What pattern is that?...Never mind, you answered it quite nicely. It looks like it would be a good one to use up a bunch of scraps with. I love how the points all match up nice and neat. That is my one problem with string quilts, they don’t match up and it really bothers my sense of order. :lol:

Seesco – I hope you will post pictures of your ‘Florida’ quilt as you go. It sounds like a lovely quilt and I think I may do something like that for my state. What a great idea!! And definitely post pictures of the quilt you made with the southwestern theme. I lived in the desert a good portion of my life and I can’t wait to see what you’ve created. :D

Lucky Patsy’s “Mom” – I love classes like that and can’t wait to see a picture of your angels quilt!

I’m working on about six projects at once. I have three BOMs I’m doing, a round robin (that hasn’t started quite yet), two pillow toppers for my guild’s charity quilt, a hand appliquéd BOM that I bought last year from a local store and didn’t start until November of 2007. I’m currently on block #3 and it is turning out to be a lot better than I expected, but it is something I’m only able to work on a couple times a month right now, at least until I get my UFO quilt finished. That’s it below in the picture. It’s the one several of you may have heard me talk about in other threads. It’s the pink and blue star pattern on the floor. That part I finished back in the early to mid 90’s. Right now I’m working on the borders. It absolutely has to be completely finished by my guild’ meeting on the 17th. The other quilt that is on my impromptu design board is actually a failure from a class. It was supposed to be for a Half Yard Challenge, but I didn’t follow the ‘rules’ and it doesn’t quite fit together. I’m going to finish the darn thing though and even though it isn’t my normal colors or my normal style of work (despite the fact that I designed it), I like it because I learned so much trying to design the darn thing.

I’ve also got a pile of quilts waiting to be machine quilted and I need to finish at least 3 of them before the end of the month. Whew! I think that’s my entire list.
~Tiffany

Lucky Patsy's

Wow, Tiffany! Those quilts are gonna be FANTASTIC! Love the colors! And you do all this with fybromyalgia????!!! I gotta hand it to you, girl! I do think quilting helps a person transcend things.

Tiffany

Thanks! Yeah, the FMS keeps me down quite a bit. Quilting really is carthartic and has often been my life line. With my health I can't really work outside the home so this has certainly kept me busy over the years. The funny thing was I got into quilting because I was very poor and needed a gift for a neice who was getting married. Quilting had the reputation of being an inexpensive hobby and I thought to myself, "How hard can it really be to sew together a blanket." - :lol: I laugh at that now that I know better.
~Tiffany

Lucky Patsy's

Yeah! I'm glad I am a pokey quilter, because if I worked any faster I probably could not afford this hobby!

Tiffany

OOoooohhhhhh! I think you are definitely on to something there Lucky Pat's Mom! I'll have to remember to use that line the next time DH asks why there aren't more finished quilts for the time I put in on them. :lol:
~Tiffany