Teen

Love the Hope quilt, Connie!

Conchalea!! Woohoo! Enjoy your new home and planning of your She-Shed!

I powered through the Memorial Day weekend sales without a single purchase...but, man, was it tough! I think I'll claim an "Open America" exemption and visit a LQS in the next couple of weeks. Need to contribute to their welfare. Yep, that'll work!

Iceblossom

I did get my little bunny star top put together, posted a picture in the virtual weekend thread
Virtual Quilting Weekend--May 22-25, 2020
Mentioned in there that although the bunny fabric was from 1996, it had only been in my stash since 2018. It was an all stash project, although the shiny blue fabric was given to me in about February -- one of my last Tuesday group meetings before we shut down due to Covid.

Am now deciding what's next... I've got Bernie back and the possibilities are maybe too endless.

Teen, keep in mind that I consider one huge "stimulus" exemption is reasonable, so your Open America would fall under that category probably with some room to spare (if that makes you feel any better).

Irishrose2

Very cute quilt, iceblossom. I like the pattern.

Snooze2978

To alleviate some of my multiplying scraps I'm trying out an Anita Goodesign embroidery design for Double Wedding Rings. Takes 1.5 hrs to stitch out as I slow my machine down as it seems to stitch better to me. I'm using muslin for the background as I have a bolt of it, navy fabric and a dark red fabric I bought years ago from Connecting threads and scraps in blues and reds from my bins. I chose the 2nd largest block which comes out at 7.5 when finished. I'm also using up large scraps of batting which I've ran out of so will have to either start quilting to gain more scraps or cut from the bolt. Anyway, I'm liking how the blocks are coming out. I'm only making a lap size quilt to replace one my new kitten ripped up when she was younger......also made from scraps. Need 48 blocks and also usesd the last of the dark red fabric for the binding which I added piping to using the navy fabric. Up to 21 blocks so far and have enough batting for 9 more blocks before I have to start searching for more. Already have another embroidery project that takes batting and has numberous sections to put together once stitched out. So far I've bought only 3 fat qtrs since November 2018 and don't see signs of having to buy more fabric in the near future. Heres a pic of the DWR blocks. I'm also going thru my old brand of thread to use it up too.

Teen

Snooze..beautiful work. Would have never thought to embroider a DWR. Very creative.

joe'smom

Snooze, that looks amazing!

Iceblossom

Gorgeous stuff there Snooze, I love the richness of the colors.

I am still between projects. I think I'm leaning towards some paper piecing. I have that bag of now-fixed hand dyes, I got that basic black as my one new fabric purchase this year, and I have the rare time of actually wanting to follow someone else's design, and I have needs to improve my paper piecing skills. Not sure how far I got playing with it after the Frolic project and the start of the Plague, might have to go make some copies but hey, I've got masks and gloves and the office supply store is open.

The big goal is to get working again on my Barn/Harvest/Month of August project going. I stalled out last time because I thought I'd get the hardest of the paper piecing done first and it didn't go so well. Only myself to blame!

I also have another idea for a project tucked away. For those of you who know the "fold the paper/don't sew through it" technique, you might know it. Two cute Panda bears. Last year I bought a big bag of souvenir fabric from someone's Indonesian trip with batiks and all sorts of lovely things in it at the thrift store. One of those things is a pretty garishly (but cute) printed children's design of large pandas with bamboo on a bright red background that I think would make cool alternate squares. Basically the same thing I did with those LeMoyne stars, 6 panda blocks and spread out with the panda fabric. It would still need some sort of red/white/black border or two.

So I'm going to get off the computer and go play with some fabric, something will insist on being used -- even if it isn't on my radar yet.

retiredteacher09

Suz: Great way to do your DWR!

petthefabric

went through some drawers that haven't been touched in 10 years. Found some good backs. There in the wash, they didn't feel clean.

Iceblossom

Ok! Next project decision made. I'm going to do some paper piecing with those hand dyed fabrics. I'm going ahead with the project and hope it will meet the size requirement of a round robin being started in the new members section. I'm going to base my project on the cover quilt here, but I'll be taking out the blocks with the large orange "spears" and just have the center lone star with the starburst corners, should finish about 36" square.
https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Quilts-B...s%2C232&sr=8-1

I really wanted to do this project with those hand dyes but I usually make bed sized quilts and didn't know how to do that. May be mean to make other people figure it out for me, but I'm sure I'll have my share of fun with the other projects too.

I'm going to be reversing the colors shown and mostly using greens (where it is orange) and purples (where it is green)... as my husband pointed out that will make the corners look like pot leaves. At least I know in advance! While it wasn't the goal at this point I think it's funny... I was so excited as I described the vision of the project but hadn't made the connection until he started talking in a Beavis and Butthead voice.