Quilt 29: Green and Purple jelly roll (from the convention)

The jelly roll cost all of $30. It had been $60, but the sign said "50% off"! A no-brainer, as far as I was concerned. I grabbed it. When I got home, I realized that I already had a length of mossy-green fabric which would blend nicely with all the prints in the roll! How's that for luck?

Here's the roll on top of that mossy green:

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 And here I've flipped the roll around.  See?  Perfect!

 

I found a chevron pattern online - liked the lookquite a bit - and so opted to go with a version of that.

The pattern starts you with a 2.5" square, then stitching two 7" x 2.5" strips. Below I've already added one 7 x 2.5" to my originating square - and I'm getting ready to cut out the next 7" strip. Jelly rolls are 2.5" wide - so there's no measuring needed for the width... just the length. 

  

In the pic, below, I've set the pieces so you can see how the chevron is built.

 

 And here it is, sewn and pressed - viewd from the "right" side. After this, I just reached into the roll and extracted the next strip, adding a strip on the top left, then on the top right.

 

Below I've got 5 panels built with the chevrons. I liked the arrangement of prints on the roll, so pretty much went with the order they came in. First I tried laying the panels in alternating directions.  Hm... nope. Doesn't really look great.

 

Then (below) I arranged them in the same order - YEAH!  I like this a lot.

 

The pattern I've been looking at has you trimming the chevron panels and then sewing them directly together. I didn't want to do that - instead want a lattice to separate the panels. Below I've laid 4 of the 5 panels on the complimenting fabric to decide on the width of that lattice. 2.5" won the day. Same width as the chevron strips - HARMONY!

 

The lattice and chevron strips are together now - here's a closeup of a sequence of soft pastel purples:

 And another closeup.

 

And here's the finished top. The camera has altered some of the darker purples into blue below - what a shame, as the purples the eye sees are much more attractive than this photo demonstrates.

Quilt 28: Christmas Cockies table cloth

I fell in love with the little "Cockatoo Santa" prints I found at Spotlight. They are just so cute. Last summer I pulled out the fabric and finally decided to do something - and chose to go with a tablecloth. I didn't have enough of these prints to make an entire table cloth, so opted to just cut squares and stitch them together, taking care to make sure the birds are positioned so that they aren't all facing the same direction.

Here's a closeup of the print - charming, yes?

Now to figure out something to use as border fabric to extend the piece so that it's large enough. I had this bundle (below) but.. hm... I'm not sure this is what I want. What I think I'd really like is red and white striped fabric next, then maybe the green cut into small strips outside of that.

But - realistically - can I hope to find a red-and-white strip which will match the red I've already got? Yeah. I'm dreamin'.

Quilt 27: Christmas Table Runner (fat quarter bits and pieces)

Well - the fat quarters I've had since just after Christmas 2011!  It was a very cleverly-wrapped package of fabric - yeah... Spotlight knows what they're doing.

This package and a few others acquired then and afterward, well, they're aging and not doing anybody any good just sitting there. I thought that, over time, I'd find other bits and pieces to combine with them, but it hasn't happened.

Table runners can be fun and fast projects - certainly not as involved as the queen and king-sized bedspreads I've been addicted to. So here we go - a runner with 1" squares.

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Dimensions are 59" x 13".

I had a ball putting it together.  Now... have a good look - can you spot the goof? Yeah... the red block at the end (right side) doesn't match the 2 other red blocks. Well, you can see it easily when you are looking at it like this, but when it's actually laying on a table, no... ...you really don't see it. Thank heavens - because I'm sure not going to take this apart and do it over (I would if it were being made for someone else, but this one is for me).

I'm planning to quilt this one on the longarm.

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I don't look at my visitor statistics very often, but just had a glance and lo-and-behold I've gotten a few visitors coming from the blogchicks.com.au site.  Welcome, friends!

When, as a blogger, you register your site with these free services, you kind-of take it all with a grain of salt. I give them a bit of a run, then pull them off if they don't deliver. But blogchicks is working. Well - that makes sense. I've loved looking at other sites listed with them. Maybe that is how I should decide who I list with.

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