Knots + Baubles

Lazy Sunday Quilt

I forget what magazine I pulled this from but I love the quilt. There's a second quilt under there too.

Quilt Top

I'm taking a break from the sketch dump to show off my finished my quilt top! Yay! I'm so excited. I kept showing anyone who would be polite enough to watch me struggle to show it off. I had wanted to make a Lap Quilt (is that even really a quantifiable measure of Quilt? I said that several times and I always got a chuckle from Quilty type peoples, but I thought it made a lot of sense) But I ended up making a square size quilt that is taller than I am.

(Cruddy pic,  I know, I just don't have  any surface that's large enough to spread it out evenly.)

This sucker took me almost five hours to iron- Five Hours!! I caught up on over an hour's worth of tv on the DVR, four swim matches, and the entire Women's Gymnastics All Around before I was finally done splaying all those little damn corners so all the seams go opposite directions. Is it just me? Is there some quilter's trick I'm not getting?

I can't wait to get quilting. I'm supposed to be using this time off work to finish my school book list but the quilting is getting the better of me. I'm going to have to alternate- 1 hour quilting, 1 hour reading, 1 hour quilting... lunch...

Fabric Love

I'm going to take a break in my sketch book slide show to show some fabric love... I bought this bundle at PurlPatchwork yesterday. I'm not typically a 'Red' kind of gal- I'm much more of a pastel-pink-50s kind of gal... but I've been finding it difficult to temper those kind of fabrics I typically go for to make something that is well rounded and not vomit-inducing girly.

New Fabrics

These each came into my possession at some point throughout the day... each on their own little path.

Work in progress

My first completely hand made quilt... coming along...

Dear Jane Quilt 4

Dear Jane Quilt Block A-4

Dear Jane Quilt 3

Dear Jane Quilt Block H-13

Dear Jane Quilt 2

Dear Jane Quilt Block H-7

Dear Jane Quilt 1

Dear Jane Quilt Block H-11

Quilt Options

Quilt Options, originally uploaded by Hoopey*.

I was bored at work one day... (or procrastinating- whatever)... and wanted to play around with my "sampler" quilt that I'm working on. I played around with the colors in Adobe Illustrator but it could also be done in Photoshop too. They're mostly solid colors except for one Liberty Print as the interest fabric.

I started this in a four week hand quilting class and decided to stick with the easy square patchwork, my idea being to actually finish a pieced top so I could finally get to the part I never get to- quilting. Quilting also happens to be the part I like the best. I think I'm going to stick with whole piece quilts or at least Really-Big-Piece quilts after this.