A Slight Detour

Here I am going off the trail again...do you see a rabbit?

First I was tempted by some beautiful floss, and inspired by some lovely flower wreaths made by others -- I think I can do this...here's the sketch

I was looking at the July/Aug 2012 of Quiltmaker magazine, and I saw the pillow designed by Kellie Wulfson.  I love her work.  

I thought I would try designing my own version. So with a tip of the hat to Kellie here's how min is shaping up

Hot off the presses ( with a wrench)

I just saw this post in my reader and was mesmerized by this old quilt.  Had to do some sketching... I'm calling it a monkey wrench design.

Ok, I should tell you that the old quilt is.  It is pictured and owned now by Church Avenue quilts.  I realize that I love quilts without sashing a lot.  It is so interesting how the pattern of the block can play off it's neighbour's.

Now what's on the design Wall...

This was a block I first saw on Lori Holt's Bee in My Bonnet, Barn-along  Her's is more flower-like but I was looking through some old quilting mags and saw it again and again - well I had to try it.  So here it is on the old design wall looking spiffy.

The block is 12 1/2 inches square.  The component small sections are all 4 1/2 inches square so it was pretty straight forward.  The corner square in a square is made with one brown square 3 3/8 inches and the corner triangles are the diagonal cut of a 3 inch square.

A new Quilt Along

I saw this new quilt along.  It is so cute.  I especially like the black in the blocks.  I would probably use lighter colours but this is great.  And who doesn't need more accuracy in their quilting....

Here's the link to Michele Foster's great quilt

Maybe I won't be the only one following...huh?

I will leave you with a look out my hotel window in London, UK.

The ongoing quilting

I have been instagramming my progress on the hand quilting on the frame.

I've added some leaves to the borders and plan to continue the background pattern around the leafy design.

What's on my Design Wall

I took these blocks out again and made another one.  I've been a bit aimless so I thought I needed to remind myself of the projects waiting for my attention.

This will be bright I think, hmmm.... But I like it.

Clara's Quilt is all Done - Yeah

So here it is finished.  Lovely, a citrus-y quilt for a fresh little one.